The Explorers
Title | The Explorers PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Flannery |
Publisher | Text Publishing |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1876485221 |
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest. This bestselling anthology, brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us beyond the frontier into a world of danger, compassion, humour, brutality and death. The Explorersincludes the work of Wills, Giles, Leichhardt, Sturt, Eyre and Mitchell, and a host of other fascinating figures. Here, in one place, is the most remarkable body of non-fiction writing ever produced in Australia.
Australian Explorers
Title | Australian Explorers PDF eBook |
Author | Gunter Schymkiw |
Publisher | R.I.C. Publications |
Total Pages | 51 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1863114998 |
Australian explorers (blackline master)
The Australian Explorers
Title | The Australian Explorers PDF eBook |
Author | George Grimm |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |
The Australian Explorers
Title | The Australian Explorers PDF eBook |
Author | George Grimm |
Publisher | BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2024-02-05 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN |
Persons who have yet to make their acquaintance with the early history of New South Wales will learn with surprise that the colony had been founded for almost a quarter of a century before the Blue Mountain barrier was crossed. For so long a period it was scarcely possible to proceed more than forty miles from Sydney in any direction. Many a despairing look must those early settlers have cast on the frowning ramparts of the range, which, leaving only a narrow margin between itself and the sea, threatened to convert the cradle of the colony into a Procrustes' bed, to which its dimensions would have to conform in the future, as they had done in the past. This sense of confinement was the harder to bear that it was met with in a land of freedom; and many a time did the caged eagle dash itself with fruitless rage against the bars of its prison. A record of the unsuccessful attempts to get beyond the main range would form a heroic chapter of our history, and one, too, of which we might well feel proud, if there is any truth in the saying that in great undertakings it is glorious even to fail. Within four months after the arrival of the "first fleet" our annals present a picture of Governor Phillip and party struggling laboriously westward to the gorges of the mountains.
The Cartographic Eye
Title | The Cartographic Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Ryan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1996-09-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521577915 |
The Cartographic Eye is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. An innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts, it concentrates on the period 1820-1880. Simon Ryan looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but are complex networks of tropes. The Cartographic Eye scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Its insightful analysis of the tendencies of colonialism will make a major contribution to 'new historicist' interrogations of colonialism. It will be a crucial text for readers in Australian literary and cultural studies, and for those interested in colonial discourse and postcolonial theory.
The Explorers of Australia and Their Life-work
Title | The Explorers of Australia and Their Life-work PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Favenc |
Publisher | Melbourne, Whitcombe |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
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The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
Title | The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Favenc |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 504 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |
Issued under the auspices of the governments of the Australian colonies.