Port Arthur

Author : Margaret Scott
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ISBN 13 : 9781761281679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Arthur written by Margaret Scott and published by . This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the tragic event that became known as the Port Arthur massacre, the day a lone gunman killed thirty-five people beginning at an historic site on the Tasman Peninsula; and it is still one of the most comprehensive and important. Acclaimed poet, author, and long-time resident of the tight-knit community where the tragedy took place, Margaret Scott doesn't focus only on the event. Instead she places it in context, giving a history of the site and how the community grew away from its dark past as a penal colony while still trying to do justice to those who suffered there, before reconstructing what happened on April 28th, 1996 using interviews, official court documents, and press releases. She doesn't sensationalise the tragedy but instead manages to shine a light on the everyday people whose small acts of kindness and bravery in the face of terror showed a community banding together - and the power of human compassion.

Author : Michael Cate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886130067
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Arthur Centennial History written by Michael Cate and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special centennial edition celebrating the history of Port Arthur, chronicling the city's story. It is filled with stories, information, and nearly one thousand photographs relating the economic, industrial, and cultural development of one of Texas' greatest cities.

Author : W. Richmond Smith
Publisher : London, E. Nash
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Siege and Fall of Port Arthur written by W. Richmond Smith and published by London, E. Nash. This book was released on 1905 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andew Blackwell
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609614569
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visit Sunny Chernobyl written by Andew Blackwell and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth. From the hidden bars and convenience stores of a radioactive wilderness to the sacred but reeking waters of India, Visit Sunny Chernobyl fuses immersive first-person reporting with satire and analysis, making the case that it's time to start appreciating our planet as it is—not as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective, the book is a love letter to our biosphere's most tainted, most degraded ecosystems, and a measured consideration of what they mean for us. Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue's gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer—and approaches a deeper understanding of what's really happening to our planet in the process.

Author : Elton N. Gish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971277724
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texaco's Port Arthur Works, a Legacy of Spindletop and Sour Lake written by Elton N. Gish and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book details the 100-year history (1903 to 2003) of Texaco's Port Arthur refinery, Port Arthur Terminal, and Port Neches refinery. It contains 408 pages with more than 1200 photographs that show every aspect of running a refinery. Many of them have no"

Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143795112
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convict-era Port Arthur written by David W. Cameron and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O’Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.

Author : Wanda A. Landry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571689177
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betting, Booze, and Brothels written by Wanda A. Landry and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, gambling and prostitution thrived as elected officials either looked the other way or took money to keep quiet. That is, until 1960 when a swashbuckling young state legislator blew into town and spearheaded an intensive investigation into the rampant vice and governmental corruption that supported it. And, at a time when such things were virtually unheard of, he and his committee played it out on live television. When the dust finally cleared, the local governments of Jefferson County were turned inside out.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Arthur LNG Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Orange, Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ports on the Gulf Coast of the United States: Port Arthur, Tex., Orange, Tex., Port Isabel, Tex., Beaumont, Tex., Freeport, Tex., Brownsville, Tex written by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: