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Burke and Wills

The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers

By: Peter FitzSimons

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Burke and Wills

The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers

By: Peter FitzSimons

The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller. 'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off, farewelled by 15,000 cheering well-wishers. Led by Robert O'Hara Burke, a brave man totally lacking in the bush skills necessary for his task; surveyor and meteorologist William Wills; and 17 others, the expedition took 20 tons of equipment carried on six wagons, 23 horses and 26 camels. Almost immediately plagued by disputes and sackings, the expeditioners battled the extremes of the Australian landscape and weather: its deserts, the boggy mangrove swamps of the Gulf, the searing heat and flooding rains. Food ran short and, unable to live off the land, the men nevertheless mostly spurned the offers of help from the local Indigenous people. In desperation, leaving the rest of the party at the expedition's depot on Coopers Creek, Burke, Wills, Charley Gray and John King made a dash for the Gulf in December 1860. Bad luck and bad management would see them miss by just hours a rendezvous back at Coopers Creek, leaving them stranded in the wilderness with practically no supplies. Only King survived to tell the tale. Yet, despite their tragic fates, the names of Burke and Wills have become synonymous with perseverance and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. They live on in our nation's history - and their story remains immediate and compelling.

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Hachette Australia

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0733634095

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Oceania and the Victorian Imagination

Where All Things Are Possible

By: Peter H. Hoffenberg

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Oceania and the Victorian Imagination

Where All Things Are Possible

By: Peter H. Hoffenberg

Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.

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Routledge

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1317086198

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9781317086192

After the Grizzly

Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California

By: Peter S. Alagona

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After the Grizzly

Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California

By: Peter S. Alagona

This book traces the history of threats to species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. The author shows how, over the course of more than a century, scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as dependent on the ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. The story begins with the tale of the the state's extinct mascot, the California grizzly, and the conservation movements and laws that followed its disappearance. The second half of the book focuses on four high-profile endangered species: the California condor, the desert tortoise, the San Joaquin kit fox, and the Delta smelt. The author offers an account of how Americans developed a civil system in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The book concludes that the challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century will be to expand habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.

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332

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Univ of California Press

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0520275063

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9780520275065

The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

By: Peter Mandler

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The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

By: Peter Mandler

Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing society where both intellectual and popular attitudes have only recently turned to admiration.

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Yale University Press

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0300078692

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9780300078695

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker,Indira Ghose,Susan Schoenbauer Thurin

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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker,Indira Ghose,Susan Schoenbauer Thurin

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

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Routledge

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1000558940

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Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I, Volume 3

By: John Mullan,Chris Hart,Peter Swaab

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Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I, Volume 3

By: John Mullan,Chris Hart,Peter Swaab

The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains facsimilies of the original memoirs.

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1000748243

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9781000748246

A Bibliography of the State of Ohio: Being a Catalogue of the Books and ...

By: Peter Gibson Thomson

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A Bibliography of the State of Ohio: Being a Catalogue of the Books and ...

By: Peter Gibson Thomson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368626426

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Native Title in Australia

An Ethnographic Perspective

By: Peter Sutton

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Native Title in Australia

An Ethnographic Perspective

By: Peter Sutton

Native title has often been one of the most controversial political, legal and indeed moral issues in Australia. Ever since the High Court's Mabo decision of 1992, the attempt to understand and adapt native title to different contexts and claims has been an ongoing concern for that broad range of people involved with claims. In this book, originally published in 2003, Peter Sutton sets out fundamental anthropological issues to do with customary rights, kinship, identity, spirituality and so on that are relevant for lawyers and others working on title claims. Sutton offers a critical discussion of anthropological findings in the field of Aboriginal traditional interests in land and waters, focusing on the kinds of customary rights that are 'held' in Aboriginal 'countries', the types of groups whose members have been found to enjoy those rights, and how such groups have fared over the last 200 years of Australian history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139449494

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The Politics of Suffering

Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus

By: Peter Sutton

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The Politics of Suffering

Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus

By: Peter Sutton

Peter Sutton is a fearless and authoritative voice in Aboriginal politics. In this groundbreaking book, he asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? The picture Sutton presents is tragic. He marshals shocking evidence against the failures of the past, and argues provocatively that three decades of liberal consensus on Aboriginal issues has collapsed. Sutton is a leading Australian anthropologist who has lived and worked closely with Aboriginal communities. He combines clear-eyed, original observation with deep emotional engagement. The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522856365

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9780522856361

Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies

Volume 3

By: Peter Horton

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Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies

Volume 3

By: Peter Horton

Selected from papers given at the third biennial conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, this volume, in common with its two predecessors, reflects the interdisciplinary character of the topic. The introductory essay by Julian Rushton foregrounds some of the questions that are key to this area of study: what is the nineteenth century? what is British music? and did London influence the continent? The essays which follow are divided into broad thematic groups covering aspects of gender, church music, national identity, and local and national institutions. This collection illustrates that while nineteenth-century British music studies is still in its infancy as a field of research, it is one that is burgeoning and contributing to our understanding of British social and cultural life of the period.

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Routledge

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1351556339

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9781351556330

Champagne From Six to Six

A Brief Social History of Entertainments and Recreations at Beechworth and the Ovens Goldfields, Victoria Australia 1852-1877

By: Peter M. Shea

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Champagne From Six to Six

A Brief Social History of Entertainments and Recreations at Beechworth and the Ovens Goldfields, Victoria Australia 1852-1877

By: Peter M. Shea

In mid-19th-century Australia, like its counterparts in California and Chile, there was a focus on the rush for gold. Given the sobriquet "diggers," men arrived in the tens of thousands from all points of the globe. In often remote bush settings, makeshift towns quickly sprouted in the foothills, valleys, and plateaus leading to the Blue Mountains and the Australian Alps. Focusing on the counterplay with this influx of fortune seekers, there also emerged a nascent global entertainment industry.Champagne from Six to Six is a short history of the pastimes of these diggers on the gold fields at Beechworth and the Ovens of northeast Victoria. This illustrated text, based on eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, and histories written on this period, gives a lively recreation of what were initially the findings of an academic research project, now available to readers everywhere. Music, dance, sports, theater, opera, magic shows, trapeze artists, wax works, the circus, and even the first types of "moving pictures" toured these diggings

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1622121457

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The Northern Utopia

British Perceptions of Norway in the Nineteenth Century

By: Peter Fjågesund,Ruth A. Symes

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The Northern Utopia

British Perceptions of Norway in the Nineteenth Century

By: Peter Fjågesund,Ruth A. Symes

In the nineteenth century, the ancient ‘filial tie’ between Britain and Norway was rediscovered by a booming tourist industry which took thousands across the North Sea to see the wonders of the fjords, the fjelds, and the beauties of the North Cape. This illustrated volume, for the first time, collects together vivid – and predominantly first-hand – impressions of the country recorded by nearly two hundred British travellers and other commentators, including Thomas Malthus, Charlotte Brontë, Lord Tennyson, and William Gladstone. In a rich selection of travel writing, fiction, poetry, journalism, political speeches, and art, Norway emerges as a refreshingly natural utopia, happily free from her imperial neighbour’s increasing problems with the side-effects of industrialisation. This is a fascinating examination of the people, institutions, customs, language and environment of Norway seen through the eyes of the British. Using the tools of literary and historical scholarship, Fjågesund and Symes set these perceptions in their nineteenth-century context, throwing light on such issues as progress, art and aesthetics, democracy, religion, nationhood, race, class, and gender, all of which occupied Europe at the time. The Northern Utopia will be of particular interest to students of British and Scandinavian cultural history, literature and travel writing. It will also enthral all those who love Norway.

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BRILL

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9004485015

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9789004485013

Book's by Peter Howitt

Burke and Wills

Burke and Wills

Oceania and the Victorian Imagination

Oceania and the Victorian Imagination

After the Grizzly

After the Grizzly

The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I, Volume 3

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I, Volume 3

A Bibliography of the State of Ohio: Being a Catalogue of the Books and ...

A Bibliography of the State of Ohio: Being a Catalogue of the Books and ...

Native Title in Australia

Native Title in Australia

The Politics of Suffering

The Politics of Suffering

Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies

Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies

Champagne From Six to Six

Champagne From Six to Six

The Northern Utopia

The Northern Utopia

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