Download or read book True Girt written by David Hunt and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm and sheep. Lots of sheep. First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True Girt True Girt introduces Thomas Davey, the hard-drinking Tasmanian governor who invented the Blow My Skull cocktail, and Captain Moonlite, Australia's most famous LGBTI bushranger. Meet William Nicholson, the Melbourne hipster who gave Australia the steam-powered coffee roaster and the world the secret ballot. And say hello to Harry, the first camel used in Australian exploration, who shot dead his owner, the explorer John Horrocks. Learn how Truganini's death inspired the Martian invasion of Earth. Discover the role of Hall and Oates in the Myall Creek Massacre. And be reminded why you should never ever smoke with the Wild Colonial Boy and Mad Dan Morgan. If Manning Clark and Bill Bryson were left on a desert island with only one pen, they would write True Girt. 'An engaging, witty and utterly irreverent take on Australian history.' —Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project 'Astounding, gruesome and frequently hilarious, True Girt is riveting from beginning to end.' —Nick Earls

Download or read book Information Respecting the Aborigines in the British Colonies written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

Download or read book Girt written by David Hunt and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia ... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock", and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup. Our nation's beginnings are steeped in the strange, the ridiculous and the frankly bizarre. Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us. Not to read it would be un-Australian. About the author: David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own biographical notes for all the books he has written (one). He has worked as an historical consultant and comedy writer for television, and also has a proper job. "A sneaky, sometimes shocking peek under the dirty rug of Australian history." John Birmingham "Hilarious and insightful -- Hunt has found the deep wells of humour in Australia's history." Chris Taylor, The Chaser

Download or read book Dark Emu written by Bruce Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.

Download or read book Aboriginal intercourse with the colonists written by William Babcock Weeden and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aboriginal intercourse with the colonists written by William Babcock Weeden and published by . This book was released on with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Question of Aborigines in the Law and Practice of Nations written by Alpheus Henry Snow and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race Ethnicity and Sexuality written by Joane Nagel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do race, ethnicity and nationalism have to do with sex, and vice versa? This title uses examples to examine how sex shapes ideas and feelings about race, ethnicity and national identity and how sexual images, fears and desires shape racial, ethnic and national stereotypes and conflicts.

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Download or read book Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria written by Daniel Bunce and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.1-49; Victorian language & sentences; p.50-51; 32 words of Condamine River (Yandukal) near Balonne R. junction; p.51-52; Grafton Range or Fitzroy Downs, 51 words; p.52-53; Darling Downs (obtained from Rosenthal Stn.) 65 words; p.54; 26 words - Wide Bay district; 3 from New England; p.54-55; Omeo- Snowy Mts. 15 words; p.55-56; Castlereagh & Macquarie R. districts, 74 words; p.56-57; 33 words from natives visiting the Bunya Bunya Forest.

Download or read book England and her Colonies considered in relation to the Aborigines etc written by England and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book England and her Colonies considered in relation to the Aborigines with a proposal for affording them medical relief written by British and Foreign Aborigines' Protection Society (LONDON) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports from Select Committees of the House of Commons Communicated to the Lords written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Science Sexuality and Race in the United States and Australia 1780 1940 written by Gregory D. Smithers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the author's Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, 2009.

Download or read book Science Sexuality and Race in the United States and Australia 1780s 1890s written by Gregory D. Smithers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines transnational history with the comparative analysis of racial formation and reproductive sexuality in the settler colonial spaces of the United States and British Australia. Specifically, the book places "whiteness," and the changing definition of what it meant to be white in nineteenth-century America and Australia, at the center of our historical understanding of racial and sexual identities. In both the United States and Australia, "whiteness" was defined in opposition to the imagined cultural and biological inferiority of the "Indian," "Negro," and "Aboriginal savage." Moreover, Euro-Americans and Euro-Australians shared a common belief that "whiteness" was synonymous with the extension of settler colonial civilization. Despite this, two very different understandings of "whiteness" emerged in the nineteenth century. The book therefore asks why these different racial understandings of "whiteness" – and the quest to create culturally and racially homogeneous settler civilizations – developed in the United States and Australia.