Download or read book Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia 1838 39 written by James Bell and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though intended only for the eyes of his beloved in England, this diary written by James Bell, sailor on the voyage of the good ship Planter to Australia in 1838, provides a unique insight into the experience of sailing to Australia in the middle of the Nineteenth Century. An invaluable addition to the history of the emigrant ships to Australia.
Download or read book Settler Society in the Australian Colonies written by Angela Woollacott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the rising numbers of free settlers from the 1820s to the 1860s, their dependence on Aboriginal, immigrant, and convict under-paid laborers, and the slow development of representative government.
Download or read book Imperial Boredom written by Jeffrey A. Auerbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests instead that boredom was central to the experience of empire. Combining individual stories of pain and perseverance with broader analysis, Professor Auerbach considers what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India. He reveals that for numerous men and women, from explorers to governors, tourists to settlers, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, Imperial Boredom demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work tedious and unfulfilling. The empires early years may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project. Many books about the British Empire focus on what happened; this book concentrates on how people felt.
Download or read book Adelaide a literary city written by Philip Butterss and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adelaide Law Review News About Us Advisory Committee For Readers Submitting Proposals Links Contact Adelaide: a literary city Download PDFRead Online Direct Adelaide: a literary city edited by Philip Butterss $33.00 | 2013 | Paperback | 978-1-922064-63-9 | 280 pp FREE | 2013 | Ebook (PDF) | 978-1-922064-64-6 | 280 pp From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today’s flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes stayed; writers have encouraged each other and fought with each other. Adelaide is literary, too, in the sense of having been written about—sometimes with love, sometimes with scorn. Literature has been important not only to the city’s cultural life but to its identity, to the way it has been seen and, most importantly, to the way it has seen itself.
Download or read book Diary written by Henry Watson and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Copy of Mr. Henry Watson's Diary of the voyage of himself and family from England to South Australia in the years 1838-1839' on board the Katharine Stewart Forbes. Press copy: and notes. a) Diary 8 Oct. 1838 - 1 July 1839 including from 22 Mar. - 1 July 1839 a description of conditions in South Australia. b) Notes on the Watson, Hack and Lloyd families.
Download or read book Australia written by Sir Ernest Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Doctors at Sea written by R. Haines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often odious and demanding duties at sea, in quarantine, and after arrival. The book shows, in graphic detail, just why a few notorious voyages suffered tragic loss of life in the absence of competent supervision. Its emphasis, however, is on demonstrating the extent to which the professionalism of the majority of surgeon superintendents, even on ships where childhood epidemics raged, led to the extraordinary saving of life on the Australian route in the Victorian era.
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 written by Raymond John Howgego and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 732 major articles, Raymond Howgego's Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 attempts to detail every significant traveller, voyager or expedition that set out during the period. Its indexes provide the names of over 3000 travellers and 1000 ships, while the bibliographies cite more than 10,000 works of reference. Extensive biographical information is included for the travellers themselves, placing every expedition thoroughly in its historical context. The text is fully cross-referenced between articles, whilst every article is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary sources.
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage from Greenock to Sydney in the Duncan written by Donald McKinnon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatre Buildings in Australia to 1905 from the Time of the First Settlement to Arrival of Cinema Appendices notes sources to text illustrations written by Ross Thorne and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
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Download or read book British Travel Writers 1837 1875 written by Barbara Brothers and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on writers of tour memoirs, which were the precursors of contemporary guidebooks, including accounts by women travelers. The distinction between traveler and tourist played a part in the development of the literature of travel. Discusses the impact of technology on the travel industry, including advancements in ocean travel and the railway. These nineteenth-century British travel writers provided ethnographic or scientific data of great use to scholars.
Download or read book The Voyage of the Beagle written by Charles Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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