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Book Whaling at Encounter Bay

Download or read book Whaling at Encounter Bay written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encounter Bay Whaling Company

Download or read book Encounter Bay Whaling Company written by Encounter Bay Whaling Company and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorandum of agreement between Henry Ranford, Henry Simpson and others, of the Whaling Company at Encounter Bay and Alexander Ewen, appointing Ewen manager of the Company. 1 June 1871.

Book Roving Mariners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynette Russell
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 1438444257
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Roving Mariners written by Lynette Russell and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt—dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains' logs, ships' records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville's whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature, Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.

Book Reminiscences of an Adventurous and Chequered Career at Home and at the Antipodes

Download or read book Reminiscences of an Adventurous and Chequered Career at Home and at the Antipodes written by Alexander Tolmer and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book No Need to be Afraid

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  • Author : Desmond O'Connor
  • Publisher : Wakefield Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781862543805
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book No Need to be Afraid written by Desmond O'Connor and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how Italians struggled to earn the right to live and work amidst an Anglo-Saxon society. It is a story of fear: the Britishers' fear that the 'swarthy' undesirables would threaten their jobs and their way of life; the fear, as WW2 erupted, that Italians might sabotage the war effort and assist the Axis powers to take over Australia.

Book Across Species and Cultures

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  • Author : Ryan Tucker Jones
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2022-07-31
  • ISBN : 0824892135
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Across Species and Cultures written by Ryan Tucker Jones and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the ocean’s history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women’s history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the industry’s exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.

Book Unfinished Voyages

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  • Author : Graeme Henderson
  • Publisher : UWA Publishing
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781920694883
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Unfinished Voyages written by Graeme Henderson and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable guide for maritime archeologists, recreational divers, historians and others interested in the drama adventure and romance of Western Australia's rich maritime history.

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encounters with Whales  93

Download or read book Encounters with Whales 93 written by Debra Postle and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australia

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  • Author : Margo Daly
  • Publisher : Rough Guides
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781843530909
  • Pages : 1280 pages

Download or read book Australia written by Margo Daly and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fresh journalistic writing and reams of information on what to see and do, this guide takes readers from the big cities to the countryside. Includes candid reviews on restaurants and accommodations for all budgets. 83 maps. Full-color insert. Two-color throughout.

Book Great Whales

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  • Author : J. L. Bannister
  • Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0643093737
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Great Whales written by J. L. Bannister and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Great Whales are found in the coastal waters surrounding Australia. There are six of the largest baleen whalesblue whale, fin whale, humpback whale, sei whale, Brydes whale and southern right whale. Also found is the largest toothed whalethe sperm whale.

Book Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia  Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty s Government  During the Years 1844  5  and 6

Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition Into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty s Government During the Years 1844 5 and 6 written by Charles Sturt and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Australia Rough Guides Snapshot Australia  includes Adelaide  the Barossa Valley  Coober Pedy  the Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island

Download or read book South Australia Rough Guides Snapshot Australia includes Adelaide the Barossa Valley Coober Pedy the Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide Snapshot to South Australia is the ultimate travel guide to this varied part of Australia. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, whether you're exploring cultural Adelaide or wine-tasting in the Barossa Valley, hunting for opals in Coober Pedy or cruising down the Murray River. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for a few days or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Australia, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Australia, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, entry requirements and outdoor activities. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Australia. Full coverage: Adelaide, the Barossa Valley, Kangaroo Island, Coorong National Park, Mount Gambier, the Coonawarra wine region, the Riverland including the Murray River, the Clare Valley, the Outback including Port Augusta and the Eyre Peninsula, Coober Pedy, Mount Remarkable and Flinders Ranges national parks, the Strzelecki Track and the far north. (Equivalent printed page extent 126 pages).

Book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia  South Australian Branch  Incorporated

Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Incorporated written by Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wild Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joy McCann
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-04-25
  • ISBN : 022662241X
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Wild Sea written by Joy McCann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This bracing history charts the myths, the exploration, and the inhabitants of the all-too-real and wild circumpolar ocean to our south.” —The Sydney Morning Herald, Pick of the Week Unlike the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic Oceans with their long maritime histories, little is known about the Southern Ocean. This book takes readers beyond the familiar heroic narratives of polar exploration to explore the nature of this stormy circumpolar ocean and its place in Western and Indigenous histories. Drawing from a vast archive of charts and maps, sea captains’ journals, whalers’ log books, missionaries’ correspondence, voyagers’ letters, scientific reports, stories, myths, and her own experiences, Joy McCann embarks on a voyage of discovery across its surfaces and into its depths, revealing its distinctive physical and biological processes as well as the people, species, events, and ideas that have shaped our perceptions of it. The result is both a global story of changing scientific knowledge about oceans and their vulnerability to human actions and a local one, showing how the Southern Ocean has defined and sustained southern environments and people over time. Beautifully and powerfully written, Wild Sea will raise a broader awareness and appreciation of the natural and cultural history of this little-known ocean and its emerging importance as a barometer of planetary climate change. “A sensitive portrait of a complex ecosystem, from krill to blue whales, and of the ice, winds, and currents that are critical to the circulation of the world’s oceans.” —Harper’s “Wilderness seekers will rejoice in this stirring portrait . . . McCann deftly navigates both natural glories and archival complexities.” —Nature

Book Historical and Descriptive Account of South Australia

Download or read book Historical and Descriptive Account of South Australia written by James F. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: