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Book Ludwig Leichhardt s Ghosts

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  • Author : Andrew Wright Hurley
  • Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 1640140131
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Ludwig Leichhardt s Ghosts written by Andrew Wright Hurley and published by Studies in German Literature L. This book was released on 2018 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating cultural studies account of the "afterlife" of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts of the past.

Book The Letters of Fw Ludwig Leichhardt

Download or read book The Letters of Fw Ludwig Leichhardt written by M. Aurousseau and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full texts of all letters, together with translations of those in German, French and Italian. This volume covers Leichardt's major exploration, from 1844 until his disappearance in 1848, with a table of subsequent events. Continued from the previous volumes (Second Series 133, 134), with which the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1968.

Book Into The Unknown

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  • Author : John Bailey
  • Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 1742628591
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Into The Unknown written by John Bailey and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig Leichhardt is Australia's most intriguing explorer. Born and educated in Prussia in the early 19th century, Leichhardt was a polymath, a man fascinated by the natural world and possessed by a longed for adventure and exploration. Australia was then almost completely unexplored apart from the colonies clustered on its coastline-the interior a vast and mysterious blank. It was a continent and a time ripe for amateur naturalists and explorers, and Leichhardt took up the challenge. His expeditions were to begin in triumph, then dwindle into acrimony, despair and misery before finally ending in disappearance and death and giving rise to one of the enduring mysteries of the Australian history.

Book Beyond Leichhardt

Download or read book Beyond Leichhardt written by Glen McLaren and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Book Expedition into Empire

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  • Author : Martin Thomas
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-09-04
  • ISBN : 1317630122
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Expedition into Empire written by Martin Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a pioneering journey through the cultures of empire. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, Expedition into Empire plots the rise and transformation of expeditionary journeys from the eighteenth century until the present. Conceived as a series of spotlights on imperial travel and colonial expansion, it roves widely: from the metropolitan centers to the ends of the earth. This collection is both rigorous and accessible, containing lively case studies from writers long immersed in exploration, travel literature, and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounter.

Book Report of the Eighth International Geographic Congress

Download or read book Report of the Eighth International Geographic Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patrick White Beyond the Grave

Download or read book Patrick White Beyond the Grave written by Ian Henderson and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick White (1912–1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. In 2006, White’s literary executor, Barbara Mobbs, released a highly significant collection of hitherto unpublished papers, reviving mainstream and scholarly interest in his work. 'Patrick White Beyond the Grave' considers White’s writing in light of the new findings, acknowledging his homosexuality in relation to the development of his literary style, examining the way he engages his readers, and contextualizing his life and oeuvre in relation to London and to London life. Thought-provoking, this collection of original essays represents the work of an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe, and will no doubt inspire further work on White from a rising generation of scholars of twentieth-century literature beyond Australia.

Book The History of Discovery in Australia  Tasmania  and New Zealand

Download or read book The History of Discovery in Australia Tasmania and New Zealand written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cartographer s Secret

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  • Author : Tea Cooper
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
  • Release : 2020-11-01
  • ISBN : 1489299580
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Cartographer s Secret written by Tea Cooper and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman's quest to heal a family rift entangles her in one of Australia's greatest historical puzzles when an intricately illustrated map offers a clue to the fate of a long-lost girl. A mesmerising historical mystery set in the Hunter Valley from bestselling author Tea Cooper for readers of Natasha Lester and Kate Morton. 1880 The Hunter Valley Evie Ludgrove loves to map the landscape around her home - hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father's obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering a one thousand pound reward for proof of where Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined to figure it out - after all, there are clues in her father's papers and in the archives of The Royal Geographical Society. But when Evie sets out to prove her theory she vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that taints everyone's lives for thirty years. 1911 When Letitia Rawlings arrives at the family estate in her Model T Ford, her purpose is to inform her great aunt Olivia of a bereavement. But Letitia is also escaping her own problems - her brother's sudden death, her mother's scheming and her own dissatisfaction with the life planned out for her. So when Letitia discovers a beautifully illustrated map that might hold a clue to the fate of her missing aunt, Evie Ludgrove, her curiosity is aroused and she sets out to discover the truth of Evie's disappearance. But all is not as it seems at Yellow Rock estate and as events unfold, Letitia begins to realise that solving the mystery of her family's past could offer as much peril as redemption.

Book Seeking the Centre

Download or read book Seeking the Centre written by Roslynn Doris Haynes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert has a hypnotic presence in Australian culture, simultaneously alluring and repellent. The 'Centre' is distant and unknown to most Australians, yet has become a symbol of the country. This exciting book, highly illustrated in full colour, reveals the singular impact that the desert, both geographical and metaphorical, has had on Australian culture. At the heart of the book is the profound relationship that Aboriginal Australians have with the desert, and the complex ways in which they have been seen by white people in this context.

Book Journal

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  • Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1865
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 790 pages

Download or read book Journal written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia

Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia written by Charles Sturt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia" by Charles Sturt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Journey Across the Western Interior of Australia

Download or read book Journey Across the Western Interior of Australia written by Peter Egerton Warburton and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Johns s Notable Australians and Who is who in Australasia

Download or read book Johns s Notable Australians and Who is who in Australasia written by Fred Johns and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of biography containing records of the careers of men and women of distinction in the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand.

Book The Last Blank Spaces

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  • Author : Dane Kennedy
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 0674075013
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book The Last Blank Spaces written by Dane Kennedy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality. Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study.