The Life And Adventures Of William Buckley

Author : William Buckley
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921776595
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of William Buckley written by William Buckley and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Flannery has done us a service first by reissuing the story of a fascinating adventure from 200 years ago, and then by setting these events in perspective with his lucid introduction.’ Canberra Times ‘At 2.00 pm on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at Indented Head near Geelong...’ In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the ‘wild white man’ lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley is the ultimate survival story of early Australia and provides an extraordinary insight into pre-contact indigenous society. Tim Flannery has published over thirty books, including the award-winning The Future Eaters, The Weather Makers and Here on Earth and the novel The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish. In 2005 he was named Australian Humanist of the Year and in 2007 Australian of the Year. In 2007 he co-founded and was appointed Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. In 2011 he became Australia’s Chief Climate Commissioner, and in 2013 he founded the Australian Climate Council. ‘This account, in Buckley’s words...has all the elements of a Boy’s Own yarn: convicts, savages, privations, wars, cannibalism, survival, treachery and the founding of a colony.’ Herald Sun

Author : John Morgan
Publisher : Ares Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780646284590
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of William Buckley written by John Morgan and published by Ares Publishers. This book was released on 1852 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1852, this new edition of a biography of William Buckley has an additional introduction, explanatory notes, maps and illustrations. It tells of Buckley's escape from the penal settlement at Port Phillip Bay in 1803 and his subsequent life with the local Aborigines. Includes references.

Author : John Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771017316
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Mum and Pup written by Christopher Buckley and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I had more or less resolved not to write a book about my parents. But I’m a writer, and when the universe hands you material like this, not writing about it amounts either to waste or a conscious act of evasion.” So begins award-winning satirist Christopher Buckley in the most personal and transcendent work of his life, the tragicomic true story of the year in which both of his parents died. In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York’s most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: “They were not — with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world — your typical mom and dad.” As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a fifty-five-year-old orphan. Buckley maintains his sense of humor by recalling the words of Oscar Wilde: “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” Christopher Buckley offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a parent, while telling a unique personal story of life with legends.

Author : William F. Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Forum Books
ISBN 13 : 1101906219
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Torch Kept Lit written by William F. Buckley, Jr. and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers—as only he could—the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen. In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley, Jr. achieved unique stature as a writer, a celebrity, and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He kept company with the best and brightest, the sultry and powerful. Ronald Reagan pronounced WFB “perhaps the most influential journalist and intellectual in our era,” and his jet-setting life was a who’s who of high society, fame, and fortune. Among all his distinctions, which include founding the conservative magazine National Review and hosting the long-running talk show Firing Line, Buckley was also a master of that most elusive art form: the eulogy. He drew on his unrivaled gifts to mourn, celebrate, or seek mercy for the men and women who touched his life and the nation. Now, for the first time, WFB’s sweeping judgments of the great figures of his time—presidents and prime ministers, celebrities and scoundrels, intellectuals and guitar gods—are collected in one place. A Torch Kept Lit presents more than fifty of Buckley’s best eulogies, drawing on his personal memories and private correspondences and using a novelist’s touch to conjure his subjects as he knew them. We are reintroduced, through Buckley’s eyes, to the likes of Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan, Elvis Presley and John Lennon, Truman Capote and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, a Buckley protégé and frequent contributor to National Review, this volumes sheds light on a tumultuous period in American history—from World War II to Watergate, the “death” of God to the Grateful Dead—as told in the inimitable voice of one of our most elegant literary stylists.William F. Buckley, Jr. is back—just when we need him most.

Author : William Buckley
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1877008206
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of William Buckley written by William Buckley and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced by Tim Flannery At 2.00 PM on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at Indented Head near Geelong . he was six foot five and seven-eighths inches tall (198cm) in his bare feet. Though clearly a European, and "well proportioned with an erect military gait" the visitor spoke not a word of English. Instead, he pointed to a tattoo on his arm, which bore the initials WB alongside crudely executed figures of the sun, moon and a possum-like creature. Then, when he was given a slice from a loaf, the word "bread" broke suddenly-almost involuntarily-from his lips. 'Over the following weeks fragments of this stranger's history were revealed. His name, he said, was William Buckley, and he had been living with the Aborigines for so long he had lost track of time. What he told of his life in the wilds of Victoria so amazed those who heard him that he soon became celebrated as "the wild white man" From Tim Flannery's introduction

Author : John Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Author : John Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of William Buckley written by John Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William F. Buckley Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493079204
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic High written by William F. Buckley Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, Buckley gathered together his friends and set out to sail across the Atlantic. This is what he correctly describes as a “celebration” of that thirty-day event. Here are the calms and the storms, the melodrama and the rumination, the wine and the song, the navigation and the introspection that in Buckley’s distinctive blend capture the imagination of sailors and non-sailors, amuse the lighthearted and the dour, and engross the reader who wishes he were aboard, as also the reader who thanks heaven that he is not.

Author : William F. Buckley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596983248
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miles Gone By written by William F. Buckley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence. Included are essays that capture Buckley's joyful boyhood and family life; his years as a conservative firebrand at Yale; the life of a young army officer; his love of wine and sailing; memories of his favourite friends; the great influences of music and religion; a life in politics; and exploring the beauty, diversity, and exactitude of the English language.