Australias Cape York Peninsula

Author : Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726760X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country written by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland, whose work has inspired all of the contributors. The papers in the volume are organized in terms of five key themes, including the use of historical and archaeological methods to reconstruct aspects of language and social organization, anthropological and linguistic work uncovering aspects of world view embedded in languages and ethnographic data sets, the study of post-contact transformations in language and society, and the return of archival data to communities. Its thematic intersections draw together the varied disciplinary threads in an overview of the cultures and languages of the region, and will appeal to all those interested in Australian Aboriginal studies, linguistics, anthropology and associated disciplines.

Author : Clifford B. Frith
Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia's Cape York Peninsula written by Clifford B. Frith and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kerry Trapnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980521306
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cape York Peninsula written by Kerry Trapnell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Heinsohn
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643102671
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Cape York Rainforest written by Robert Heinsohn and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remote, beautiful and poorly known rainforests of Cape York Peninsula tell a special story about Australia’s historic and present-day connections to New Guinea. Life in the Cape York Rainforest highlights these connections by examining the fascinating biology of some of the most spectacular animals shared between the two regions. The author recounts his own ground-breaking research on ‘cross-dressing’ Eclectus parrots, musical palm cockatoos and multi-coloured pythons, together with the exotic lifestyles of other animals, while painting the bigger picture of the past when Australia and New Guinea were joined by extensive land bridges. Australia’s disconnection from New Guinea is probably only temporary, and even today many bird species continue to fly the short distance between the two landmasses. Whether just browsing the beautiful photos and informative captions, or reading it in its entirety, readers will gain a greater understanding of the unique attributes of our Cape York rainforests.

Author : Dawn W. Frith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780730104698
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cape York Peninsula written by Dawn W. Frith and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with unique flora, fauna, diverse landscapes, critical Aboriginal cultural sites and a profound sense of remoteness, this is one of the world's last remaining wilderness areas. Unique plant communities provide habitat for abundant New Guinean and Australian wildlife, including the endangered Golden-shouldered Parrot.

Author : Stephanie Anderson
Publisher : Melbourne Books
ISBN 13 : 192212902X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pelletier written by Stephanie Anderson and published by Melbourne Books. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of a French cabin boy, Narcisse Pelletier, and his life with the Uutaalnganu people of north-east Cape York from 1858 to 1875. Even though it is all but forgotten in Australia, and in France is known only in its broad outlines, Pelletier's story rivals that of the famous William Buckley, both as a tale of human survival and as an enthralling and accessible ethnographic record. Narcisse Pelletier, from the village of Saint-Gilles-sur-Vie, was fourteen years old when the Saint-Paul was wrecked near Rossel Island off New Guinea in 1858. Leaving behind more than 300 Chinese labourers recruited for the Australian goldfields - believed to have been subsequently massacred by the Rossel Islanders - the ship's captain and crew, including the cabin boy, escaped in a longboat. After a gruelling voyage across the Coral Sea, they landed near Cape Direction on Cape York, where Pelletier found himself abandoned when the boat sailed off without him. He was rescued by an Aboriginal family and remained with them as a member of their clan until 1875 when he was sighted by the crew of a pearling lugger. 'Rescued' against his will, Pelletier was conveyed to Sydney and then repatriated to France. The author, Stephanie Anderson, came across Pelletier's story by chance in an old French anthropological journal. As she started researching it, her fascination with the story grew. She found that Pelletier had left an account of his experiences, first published in 1876, that had never been translated into English. Now, for the very first time, this remarkable story is available to read in English, complemented by an ethnographic commentary by anthropologist Athol Chase and an in-depth introduction by Anderson. Pelletier: The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York is required reading for anyone with an interest in Australian history, anthropology, or the intriguing world of pre-colonial Aboriginal life.

Author : Richard G. Tomkies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921118722
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Cape York written by Richard G. Tomkies and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins on the remote eastern shores of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula during the dark days of World War 2, when Australia was in ever-present danger of being invaded by the advancing Japanese Forces. The pilot of a scouting Japanese Air Force Zero, of the type nicknamed by the Allies as ‘The Flying Swallow’, heads south along the East Coast of Cape York. He is searching for an enemy target, which he duly finds, only to be fired upon by an Australian Coast Watcher and his companions. Some sixty years later, Tony Stevens, the grandson of the Coast Watcher, who has set out in his four-wheel drive Toyota Landcruiser truck, to explore with a friend the lonely and rugged region of Cape York, makes an unusual and accidental discovery, which connects him to his grandfather’s wartime experiences.

Author : Robert Logan Jack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northmost Australia written by Robert Logan Jack and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780724262335
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Population Characteristics of Cape York Peninsula written by David King and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hector Holthouse
Publisher : Australian Geographic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australian Geographic Book of Cape York written by Hector Holthouse and published by Australian Geographic. This book was released on 1991 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentions contact with explorers; rock art and rock engravings at Laura, including Quinkan figures; battle of Mitchell River; Bamaga Native Reserve; Torres Strait pearling; Aboriginal resistance to gold diggers; Aboriginal stockmen, midwives (p.73); construction of telegraph line from Palmerville to the Cape; rescue of plane crash victims by Aborigines in 1942; setting up of missions, reserves on Cape York peninsula; timeline of European expeditions 1845-1990; briefly mentions Kanju, Kokoberin, Tjapukai, Wik Monkan, Wuthathi, Yaraikana, Yintjingga people.