Download or read book Western Victoria Australia Felix written by T.K. Dow and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia Felix written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, later Mrs. Robertson (1870-1946) was an Australian author who also wrote under the pseudonym Henry Handel Richardson. She excelled in the arts and music during her time at the Presbyterian Ladies[ College in Melbourne and her mother took the family (her father having died in 1879) to Europe in 1888 to enable Ethel to continue her musical studies at the Leipzig Conservatorium in which city she set her first novel, Maurice Guest (1908). Richardson also wrote a single volume of short stories and an autobiography that greatly illuminates the settings of her novels, although her Australian Dictionary of Biography entry asserts that is somewhat unreliable. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930) was her famous trilogy - consisting of Australia Felix (1917), The Way Home (1925), and Ultima Thule (1929) - about the slow decline of a successful Australian physician and his family due to his character flaws and brain disease. It was highly praised by Sinclair Lewis, among others. Amongst her other works are: The Getting of Wisdom (1910), Two Studies (1931) and The End of a Childhood (1934).
Download or read book The Public Lands of Australia Felix written by Joseph Michael Powell and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia Felix written by Jeffrey Makin and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paintings of Jeffrey Makin, artist, academic and long term art critic for Melbourne's Sun-Herald, are featured in this lavishly illustrated monograph. In his introduction, Christopher Heathcote describes Makin's approach to landscape painting and his treatment of some of Australia's most dramatic landscape features.
Download or read book New Light on Major Mitchell s 1836 Australia Felix Expedition Through what is Now Victoria written by Gregory C. Eccleston and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Years Experience in Australia Felix written by George Henry Haydon and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impressions of Australia Felix During Four Years Residence in that Colony written by Richard Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latest Information with Regard to Australia Felix the Finest Province of the Great Territory of New South Wales Including the History Geography Natural Resources Government Commerce and Finances of Port Phillip Sketches of the Aboriginal Population and Advice to Immigrants written by George Arden and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia Felix written by Charles Manning Hope Clark and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers on traditional social organisation, resources, art, contact history and exploration by I.D. Clark, E. Gott, R.G. Gunn, J.F. Critchett, J. Poynter and C.M.H. Clark, separately annotated.
Download or read book Australia Felix written by Henry Handel Richardson and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia Felix (1917) is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson. Based on the life of her parents, Australia Felix is the first in a trilogy of novels later published as The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930). The trilogy has earned praise from countless authors and critics for its startling depictions of a man’s decline due to mental illness and the lengths to which his wife must go to care for their young family. “In a shaft on the Gravel Pits, a man had been buried alive. At work in a deep wet hole, he had recklessly omitted to slab the walls of a drive; uprights and tailors yielded under the lateral pressure, and the rotten earth collapsed, bringing down the roof in its train.” Into this dangerous world of mining, Richard Mahony arrives in search of fortune. As the proprietor of Digger’s Emporium, his business depends on the trust of his customers, most of them rugged, hard-drinking gold miners. But the men find it hard to respect Mahony, a teetotaler whose upper-class sensibilities strike them as snobbish at best, insulting at worst. As his store slowly fails, Richard turns his attention to the young Polly Turnham, a servant at the local hotel. When they marry, Polly suggests to her husband that he abandon his business and turn to medicine instead. His practice in Ballarat is a success, allowing them to start a family and live comfortably—for a time. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henry Handel Richardson Australia Felix is a classic of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Wetlands and Western Cultures written by Rod Giblett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation. Giblett’s analysis of the wetland motif in literature and the arts, including in Beowulf and the writings of Tolkien and Thoreau, demonstrates two approaches to wetlands—their denigration as dead waters or their commendation as living waters with a potent cultural history.
Download or read book Scotland to Australia Felix written by Camperdown & District Historical Society Scots Book Committee and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836 Major Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor General of New South Wales, visited Western Victoria. He was so impressed by the country he saw he named it Australia Felix, which means 'fortunate' or 'happy Australia'. When Mitchell a Scot, published an account of his various expeditions in 1838, with special reference to Australia Felix, considerable Scottish emigration followed. Many of these Scots settled in Australia Felix, then part of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.Stewart McArthur AM, of 'Meningoort', a fourth generation Camperdown District Scottish descendant, writes in his Foreword that Scotland to Australia Felix: Founding Scots of Victoria's Camperdown District 'is a warm and human story of those courageous Scots who came to Camperdown, some more than 150 years ago. Their names will resonate with many, names that appear on streets, churches and societies'.In his Introduction, Dr Ben Wilkie, Honorary Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University states 'The high proportion of Scottish pastoralists in the Western District of Victoria is well-known. In the Western District two thirds of the squatters were from Scotland...This volume brings together just some of these life stories...Scottish migrants in the 19th century left a long-lasting and visible legacy in the Western District of Victoria.
Download or read book Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne Victoria written by William Westgarth and published by Geelong, Vic. : Rippleside Press. This book was released on 1888 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous 'Australia Felix' expedition in 1836, as his second-in-command. This expedition proceeded down the Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers into far western New South Wales, before crossing into what is now Victoria and proceeded south past the Grampians to the coast at Portland, before returning via Mount Macedon to the settled areas near Gundagai. Their continuous survey traverse from Boree (near Molong) to Jugiong (near Gundagai), via south-west Victoria, was found to have a commendably small misclosure of 13/4 miles. Stapylton's journals clarify when and where several natural history discoveries were made, including that of the now extinct Pig-footed Bandicoot, the now extinct White-footed Rabbit-rat, and the first-ever sighting of an australite. Stapylton's journals also describe several first contacts with the indigenous people, the sometimes-fraught relationship between himself and Mitchell, and Stapylton's concern for the welfare of the young girl Ballandella, whom Mitchell took home to raise with his family: one of the first instances of the 'stolen generation'. Being of the aristocracy, Stapylton found it hard to fraternise with the convicts in the team, but by the end of the expedition he had warmed to them sufficiently to praise them for always treating Turandurey (the female in the party) with respect. The book later describes the attack on Stapylton's survey camp in far north-eastern New South Wales, inland from Mount Warning, in 1840, resulting in the murder of Stapylton and one of his men. The farcical criminal trial in Sydney in 1841 is described in detail, with the men adjudged guilty being brought back to the infant Brisbane Town to be publicly hanged from the vanes of the windmill. Also revealed is Mitchell's assuming responsibility for Stapylton's baby son, including his care and schooling until he was old enough to become employed. Included in the book are detailed accounts of Stapylton's ancestors on both his mother's and father's sides, and a glossary of foreign words used in his 1836 journal.
Download or read book Recent Information Respecting Port Phillip and the Promising Province of Australia Felix in the Great Territory of New South Wales written by George Arden and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Major Mitchell and Australia Felix written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape written by David S. Jones and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale. The book explores contemporary sense of place theory and practice, drawing upon the Western District of Victoria, in Australia, being the "Country of the White Cockatoo". It offers a unique multi-temporal and thematical analytical approach towards comprehending and mapping the values that underpin and determine strengths of human relationships and nuances to this landscape. Included is a deep ethno-ecological and cross-cultural translation, that takes the reader through both the Western understanding of sense of place as well as the Australian Aboriginal understanding of Country. Both are different intellectual constructions of thoughts, values and ideologies, but which share numerous commonalities due to their archetypal meanings, feelings and values transmitted to humans.
