The Youngest Cameleer

Author : Goldie Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741304954
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Youngest Cameleer written by Goldie Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahmed Ackbar, a thirteen-year-old Afghan and the youngest Afghan cameleer speaks Pashto and a very little English. He is the only surviving male in his immediate family. In late 1872 he sails into the prosperous city of Adelaide with three cameleers (Uncle Kamran, Alannah and Jemma Khan) to help look after four camels. But Ahmed has other things on his mind. What if his uncle isn't as innocent of his brother's (Ahmed's father) death as he seems? As the expedition treks into an unexplored interior, Ahmed must cope with Jemma Khan's enmity, his own homesickness, a very different culture and language, and the difficulties of exploration.

Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 1862548722
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia's Muslim Cameleers written by Philip Jones and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1870 and 1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across outback Australia's vast expanses. Many of the images and artefacts in this fascinating account are published here for the first time, and this new edition contains additions to the biographical listing of more than 1200 cameleers.

Author : Karen Wyld
Publisher : UWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1760801593
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Fruit Falls written by Karen Wyld and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen shores. Spanning four generations, with a focus on the 1960s and 70s, an era of rapid social change and burgeoning Aboriginal rights, Where the Fruit Falls is a re-imagining of the epic Australian novel. Brigid Devlin, a young Aboriginal woman, and her twin daughters navigate a troubled nation of First Peoples, settlers and refugees — all determined to shape a future on stolen land. Leaving the sanctuary of her family's apple orchard, Brigid sets off with no destination and a willy wagtail for company. As she moves through an everchanging landscape, Brigid unravels family secrets to recover what she'd lost — by facing the past, she finally accepts herself. Her twin daughters continue her journey with their own search for self-acceptance, truth and justice. 'In poetic and evocative storytelling, this writing celebrates the agency of Indigenous women to traverse ever-present landscapes of colonisation and intergenerational trauma. Country has an omniscient presence in their story lines, guiding the women across vivid desert and coastal landscapes. Where the Fruit Falls recognises both the open wounds of living histo-ries of colonisation and the healing power of belonging to Country.' — 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award judges 'This evocative family saga celebrates the strength and resilience of First Nation women, while touching on deeply traumatic aspects of Australian history. Threads of magic realism shimmer throughout the story, offering a deeper understanding of reality and challenging the reader to imagine a kinder, more just, more humane world.' — Sally Morgan

Author : Evariste Régis Huc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the years 1844 - 5 - 6 written by Evariste Régis Huc and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Stockwin
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749017961
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silk Tree written by Julian Stockwin and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Julian Stockwin, a master of the historic novel, writes with a zeal, re-creating ancient times, with fast-paced prose, vivid characters, and matchless authenticity." - QUARTERDECK MAGAZINE Rome 549 AD. Forced to flee the city, merchant Nicander and legionary Marius escape to a new life in Constantinople. Determined to make their fortune, they plot a number of outrageous money-making schemes, until they chance upon their greatest idea yet. Armed with an audacious plan to steal precious silk seeds from the faraway land of Seres, Nicander and Marius must embark upon a terrifying and treacherous journey across unknown realms. But first they must deceive the powerful ruler Justinian and the rest of his formidable Byzantine Empire in order to begin their voyage into the unknown. In an adventurous tale of mischief and deception, Nicander and Marius face danger of the highest order, where nothing in the land of the Roman Empire is quite what it seems.

Author : Evariste Régis Huc
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Tartary, Tibet, and China During the Years 1844-1846 written by Evariste Régis Huc and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the remarkable account of the two-year journey across China, Mongolia and Tibet by two French Christian missionaries. After their expulsion from Tibet, where they stayed in the capital Lhasa, they moved back to China. The journey by Évariste Régis Huc and Joseph Gabet, began in September, 1844. They received a commission to travel to Mongolia to check on the progress of the newly established Christian mission created by the Pope. Volume I tells about their adventures in China and Mongolia and Volume II casts light on their further adventures in Tibet.

Author : Huc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China During the Years 1844-1845-1846 written by Huc and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Évariste Régis Huc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China during the years 1844-5-6, tr. by W. Hazlitt written by Évariste Régis Huc and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles M. Doughty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Arabia Deserta written by Charles M. Doughty and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles M. Doughty
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Arabia Deserta written by Charles M. Doughty and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 – 1926) was an English poet and traveller, best remembered for his sprawling 1888 work, Travels in Arabia Deserta, which was highly praised by T.E. Lawrence in the 1920s.