Download or read book The Beachcomber s Wife 16pt Large Print Edition written by Adrian Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should have been a paradise, but paradise is what you lose, it is what you might have had. An elderly woman who has lived for many years on a tropical island off the Queensland coast with her beachcomber husband waits for help from the mainland. For three harrowing days, alone. He has died, his body lies in their cabin just up from the beach, and while she awaits help she reviews her reclusive life there, of nearly 25 years with him. She is a woman with a glint in her mind's eye. The Beachcomber's Wife draws upon the published writings of E.J. Banfield, who lived an isolated life with his wife Bertha on Dunk Island through the first decades of the twentieth century. He made very little reference to her in his work (Confessions of a Beachcomber and others). This account imagines what it might have been like from her point of view. It follows Banfield's practice, of fact cemented with fiction.
Download or read book Launder and Gilliat written by Geoff Brown and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book North Pole Tenderfoot written by Doug Hall and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would Doug Hall follow in Robert Peary's 1909 sled tracks to the North Pole, despite the grueling terrain and temperatures between 15 and 62 degrees below zero? His goal was to resurrect the spirit of Peary's journey in a world increasingly driven by instant gratification, short term business focus, and lack of sustained dedication to great causes. Peary succeeded where some 578 expeditions before him had failed. North Pole Tenderfoot is Doug's attempt to let the reader experience what is possible when one does what Peary did: think big.
Download or read book Type Sign Symbol written by Adrian Frutiger and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Display Alphabets written by Dan X. Solo and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists, crafters, and designers will rejoice in 100 unusual and authentic Victorian type fonts. Plain and decorative alphabets include Calliope, Buffalo Bill, Shaded Barnum, Fargo, Jackpot, and Burlesque. Styles range from bold Bohemia and Broadside to delicate Aeolian Open and Arboret. Many include lowercase letters and numbers, plus Victorian printer's ornaments.
Download or read book Bizarre and Ornamental Alphabets written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite collection of usable, unusual, royalty-free lettering includes 1,685 bizarre and ornamental letters, including 50 full alphabets in a variety of motifs, including 11th centuy Anglo-Celtic, military, silhouettes, mathematics, and many more.
Download or read book Elegant Display Alphabets written by Dan X. Solo and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Type fonts selected to add formal elegance, precision and grace to graphic projects that require a more reserved and thoughtful approach. Most of the fonts include both upper- and lowercase alphabets, numbers, punctuation marks and typographical ornaments.
Download or read book Adrian Frutiger Typefaces written by Heidrun Osterer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das internationale Schriftschaffen nach 1950 wurde maßgeblich geprägt vom Schweizer Adrian Frutiger. Sein Schriftprogramm Univers und die zum ISO-Standard erklärte, maschinenlesbare Schrift OCR-B sind ebenso Meilensteine wie die zur Frutiger weiterentwickelte Schrift der Pariser Flughäfen – ein Qualitätsstandard für Signalisationsschriften. Mit den Corporate Types prägte er Firmenauftritte wie den der japanischen Kosmetiklinie Shiseido. Insgesamt entstanden rund 50 Schriften, darunter Ondine, Méridien, Avenir und Vectora. Auf Gesprächen mit Frutiger basierend sowie auf umfangreichen Recherchen in Frankreich, England, Deutschland und der Schweiz, zeichnet die Publikation den gestalterischen Werdegang des Schriftkünstlers exakt nach. Es werden alle Schriften – vom Entwurf bis zur Vermarktung – abgebildet sowie mit Bezug zu Technik und zu artverwandten Schriften analysiert. Bisher unveröffentlichte, nicht realisierte Schriften sowie über 100 Logos vervollständigen das Bild. Mit dieser zweiten Auflage, einer korrigierten und durch einen Index erweiterten Studienausgabe, lässt sich Frutigers Werk noch besser erschliessen.
Download or read book T J Ryan written by Denis Joseph Murphy and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is timely that this new edition should be published in the historic first year of the Labor government of Wayne Goss, a leader who has already invited comparisons with T. J. Ryan. T. J. Ryan was a natural leader. In 1915 he was elected Labor Premier of Queensland against the turbulent background of World War I. His Labor government set the foundations for Labor rule in Queensland which lasted until the 1957 split. Denis Murphy's fascinating biography concentrates on Ryan the politician, a consummate tactician and leader of great ability whose untimely death in the early 1920s robbed him of the chance to lead the nation. During his years as Premier of Queensland and Deputy Leader of the Federal Australian Labor Party, Ryan passed major reforms in labor laws, from the rending issues of conscription to censorship and industrial unrest. This biography recaptures the tumultuous times of the early twentieth century, set against the struggle for power and political intrigue.
Download or read book American Wood Type 1828 1900 written by Rob Roy Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and most authoritative history of wood type in the United States is now reissued in paperback. This book tells the complete story of wood type, beginning with the history of wood as a printing material, the development of decorated letters and large letters, and the invention of machinery for mass-producing wood letters. The 19th-century heyday of wood type is explored in great detail, including all aspects of design, manufacture, and marketing, and the evolution of styles. Many related trades interacted with wood type production; the book examines the influence of lithography, letterpress, metal-plate and wood engraving, sign painting and calligraphy, poster printing, and type-founding. Long out of print, the book is still regarded by scholars and designers as an invaluable resource for a rich legacy of typographic art. More than 600 specimens of wood type are classified and annotated, as are more than 100 specimens of complete fonts. This reissue includes a new foreword by David Shields, Design Curator of the Rob Roy Kelly Wood Type Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, discussing the renewed interest in the subject since the mid-1990s as well as ongoing research into the history of wood type.
Download or read book The Limits of Hope written by Marilyn Lake and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 10,000 men, women, and children were placed on farms in Australia during the 1920s as part of the soldier plan after World War II. Of the 12,000 families settled in Victoria, a majority failed to establish themselves, and the cost of this ill-conceived plan was enormous, both to the people and the state. This innovative social history focuses on the experiences of the settlers as they struggled against appalling conditions to make ends meet and maintain their dignity.
Download or read book A New Province written by W. Ross Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 outlines the upheaval caused to Aboriginal people by the advances of European settlement; recounts some attacks on livestock; the competition for food and rising racial tensions, the increase of Native Police and many murders and subsequent reprisals resulting in the killing of up to 80 Aboriginal people in 1857; use of Aboriginal people as agricultural labour; Photograph of Lucy of Cania on page 8. Includes a transcription of "four corroboree songs of the Korenggoreng", page 3. Significant decline of the Aboriginal population - census of 1976 numbers 23 Aboriginal people in Monto Shire.
Download or read book Taming the Great South Land written by William J Lines and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect. Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect.
Download or read book Signs and Symbols written by Adrian Frutiger and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
Download or read book A Documentary History of Queensland written by W. Ross Johnston and published by St. Lucia ; New York : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes brief history of Aborigines in Queensland.
Download or read book Queensland Political Portraits 1859 1952 written by Denis Joseph Murphy and published by St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters on Qld Premiers; mentions policies and attitudes under Bowen, McIlwraith, Griffith, Philp, and McCormack.
Download or read book Squatter Selector and Storekeeper written by Duncan Bruce Waterson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
