The A To Z Of The Discovery And Exploration Of Australia

Author : Alan Day
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081086326X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia written by Alan Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system

Author : Julian Edmund Tenison Woods
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia written by Julian Edmund Tenison Woods and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erwin Feeken
Publisher : Xlibris Au
ISBN 13 : 9781543401691
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Discovery and Exploration of Australia written by Erwin Feeken and published by Xlibris Au. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The map of Australia abounds with fascinating geographical place-names, the origins of which have, for long, been hidden in the journals of our early explorers. Now after nine years of research, Erwin Feeken, a highly qualified cartographer, and his wife, Gerda, have finalised the first complete record of Australian geographical place-names and the most comprehensive general reference work on Australian exploration ever published. In European Discovery and Exploration of Australia, there are twenty-three beautifully drawn four-colour maps plus index showing the routes of more than 120 explorers with the locality of their named features numbered to accord with a Key to the Maps. The place-names in the Key have been numbered approximately in chronological order of their naming, though places found during a single expedition have been grouped together. There is also a gazetteer containing over four thousand place-names alphabetically arranged with notes on their origins. The map reference numbers (in brackets) form a cross-reference with the Key to the Maps. The work is introduced by a foreword from Lord Casey and an essay on the nature of Australian exploration by Professor O. H. K. Spate, director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. The text, comprising a survey of Australian exploration, is arranged in the form of biographies of the explorers (describing, for the first time, several almost unknown figures) with emphasis on their expeditions and under the following headings: "The Approach to Australia"; "Exploration before Settlement, 1606-1788"; "From Botany Bay to the Blue Mountains, 1788-1813"; "Land and Sea Expeditions, 1813-1901." This section of the book is very fully illustrated with 18 full-colour plates and some 150 black-and-white photographs, mostly reproductions of early prints. Concluding the book are bibliographies of sources and references, a list of illustrations, and an index of explorers and ships. The comprehensive nature of this work will ensure that it becomes a valuable reference book for students, while the text and illustrations will appeal to all who are interested in our history. Collectors of Australiana will welcome this most attractive addition to the ever-increasing number of available publications.

Author : George Arnold Wood
Publisher : Melborne, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of Australia written by George Arnold Wood and published by Melborne, Macmillan. This book was released on 1922 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher : London G. Philip 1893.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of Australia written by Albert Frederick Calvert and published by London G. Philip 1893.. This book was released on 1893 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes on early voyagers to southern seas & claimants to sighting Australia; list of 24 maps from 10c. to 1798 with notes Schouten & Le Maire (1616) compared inhabitants of New Guinea as superior to Aborigines; Abel Tasman (1642-4) names given by him, quotes from journal, map; W. Dampier (1688) impressions of the land, inhabitants, appearance, food supplies, weapons; second visit (1699), encounter with natives; Cooks discoveries (1770); Marion du Fresne (1772) arrived Tasmania; p.61-75; Cooks second & third voyages, copies of 10 letters; carved & stained shield from Botany Bay.

Author : Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137197
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Explorers written by Tim Fridtjof Flannery and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... the writings of the men and women who traversed, circumnavigated, and settled the continent ..."--Cover.

Author : Julian E. Tenison-Woods
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337560591
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia written by Julian E. Tenison-Woods and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Howitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Moran
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870223
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television written by Albert Moran and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim. The origins, early development, and later adaptations of radio and television show how Australia has gone from being a minor and rather parochial player to being a significant part of the international scene. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television provides essential facts and information concerning the Australian radio and television industry. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, television and radio series, and television and radio stations.

Author : Albert Moran
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863472
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema written by Albert Moran and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. This book is an introduction and guide to the film of Australia and New Zealand. With entries on many exceptional producers, directors, writers and actors, as well as the films indicated above and many others, this reference also presents the early pioneers, the film companies and government bodies, and much more in its hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries. Through a chronology that shows how far these cinemas have come in a short time and an introduction that presents them more broadly, a clear portrait of the two countries' motion pictures emerge. The bibliography is an excellent source for further reading.