Commandant Of Solitude

Author : Collet Barker
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commandant of Solitude written by Collet Barker and published by Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries of Collet Barker; Raffles Bay region - race relations , traditional society, vocabulary and place names, Aborigines at Raffles Bay 1829; Aboriginal class divisions; massacre King George Sound region - Nyungar and Mineng people; race relations, traditional beliefs on creation, ghosts, snakes, star lore; birth; body scars; burial beliefs; ceremonial exchange; ceremonies; children; customs, manners; feuds; ceremonial role of women; fire stick hunting; fishing; food; hunting rights; initiation; kinship relations; marriage; name avoidance; property rights; rituals; spears; vocabulary; Mineng names of seasons; list of Nyungar people 1821-1835.

Author : Collet Barker
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commandant of Solitude written by Collet Barker and published by Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries of Collet Barker; Raffles Bay region - race relations , traditional society, vocabulary and place names, Aborigines at Raffles Bay 1829; Aboriginal class divisions; massacre King George Sound region - Nyungar and Mineng people; race relations, traditional beliefs on creation, ghosts, snakes, star lore; birth; body scars; burial beliefs; ceremonial exchange; ceremonies; children; customs, manners; feuds; ceremonial role of women; fire stick hunting; fishing; food; hunting rights; initiation; kinship relations; marriage; name avoidance; property rights; rituals; spears; vocabulary; Mineng names of seasons; list of Nyungar people 1821-1835.

Author : John Connor
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868407562
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 written by John Connor and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation in Australia, the book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and examines how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition.

Author : Ronald Bogue
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748641750
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History written by Ronald Bogue and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of fabulation makes a late appearance in Deleuze's career and in only limited detail, but by tracing its connections to other concepts and situating them within Deleuze's general aesthetics, Ronald Bogue develops a theory of fabulation which he proposes as the guiding principle of a Deleuzian approach to literary narrative.Fabulation, he argues, entails becoming-other, experimenting on the real, legending, and inventing a people to come, as well as an understanding of time informed by Deleuze's Chronos/Aion distinction and his theory of the three passive syntheses of time. In close readings of contemporary novels by Zakes Mda, Arundhati Roy, Roberto Bolano, Assia Djebar and Richard Flanagan, he demonstrates the usefulness of fabulation as a critical tool, while exploring the problematic relationship between history and story-telling which all five novelists adopt as a central thematic concern.This is an original and exciting project by a highly respected specialist in the field.

Author : General Alexander Cavalié Mercer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908692324
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Waterloo Campaign (kept throughout the campaign of 1815) written by General Alexander Cavalié Mercer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without doubt, one of the finest accounts of a participant of the Waterloo campaign. Mercer was famously in charge of "G" troop RHA during the campaign, and from the journal he kept at the time, he formed this book. It is written with a jaunty air more often seen in the writings of French cavalry officers memoirs, a certain irreverence to rank and custom (his description of the Duc de Berri is particularly cutting) and a keen eye for detail and the anecdote. This edition is the second volume of a two volume series as originally published. Having been stationed in Belgium for over a month during which time he offers a number of telling remarks on the country and its inhabitants, and their enthusiasm for the conflict, his troop arrived belatedly at the battle of Quatre Bars on the 16th June 1815 as the fighting died down. He was involved in covering the retreat of the Allied forces northward to Waterloo on the 17th. During this retreat Mercer sights Napoleon riding with the vanguard of his advanced forces, as he struggles to cover his retreating comrades, in a moment he refers to as "sublime". During the battle on the 18th his troop is in the thick of the fighting, during which time Mercer's account leaves no detail out, apart from his disobeying Wellington's order to avoid counter-battery fire. As the battle rolls on the magnificent and yet foolhardy charges of the massed French cavalry are recounted with their brave but ultimately futile attempt to break the squares on the ridge, Mercer and his troop pour fire into the horsemen mercilessly. As the Armée du Nord recoils from its final attack in disarray, Mercer is ordered with his men to follow up the retreating hordes, he replies to his superior "How?" as the charnel house surrounding his position contains the dead and dying horses needed to pull his guns. Essential reading. Author - General Alexander Cavalié Mercer (1783-1868)

Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191991
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gould's Book of Fish written by Richard Flanagan and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review—Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly—Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review—Best of the Best 2002 Washington Post Book World—Raves 2002 Chicago Tribune—Favorite Books of 2002 Christian Science Monitor—Best Books 2002 Publishers Weekly—Best Books of 2002 The Cleveland Plain Dealer—Year’s Best Books Minneapolis Star Tribune—Standout Books of 2002 Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled. Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould’s Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Author : Masterpieces
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masterpieces of Foreign Literature written by Masterpieces and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 856 pages
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Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 854 pages
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Download or read book Chambers's Edinburgh Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: