Arnie Pearls And Luggers In The Torres Strait

Author : Arnie Duffield,Lee Duffield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664105201

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Arnie: Pearls and Luggers in the Torres Strait by Arnie Duffield,Lee Duffield Pdf

This is the story of Arnie Duffield, who arrived at Thursday Island, in Torres Strait, the Northern tip of Australia, aged ten, in 1936 - beginning a life-time of adventure. His father worked on the famous sailing luggers, diving boats that harvested pearl shells and pearls for over 100 years up to 1980. Arnie with his father and brother, with their own hands would build their own flotilla of luggers, to operate as a family company over eventful decades: seeing the Great Depression, war and the immediate threat of invasion, a post-war boom in the region, the loss of divers and constant striving for safety at sea, failures of an industry, mounting threats to the environment. For ten years he managed an innovative project cultivating pearls for jewellery, a change from selling shells, the `mother of pearl' used for buttons and ornamentation. The tropical life provided excitement, stimulus, dangers; material for yarns, about crocodiles or sharks, drunks, bad weather at sea, a near-drowning, a mercy dash in a fast boat to save a downed pilot, and a few close shaves on bush air-strips. Arnie became a leading personality in this world, a humourist and practitioner of the wisecrack, always quick with a come-back. From childhood days observing the hectic life of the far-away little port at Thursday Island, Waiben under its traditional name; then working as a young man, repairing warships, and operating the family-owned boats, he became, he would proudly state, a master mariner and proficient ship engineer. He would revel in the island life, enjoying great freedom, getting successes and hard blows; in private life, marrying, starting a family, experiencing the stresses and joys. At 95 he is known as the “last man standing” from days when the fleet would depart under sail.

Author : John P. McD. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Pearl industry and trade
ISBN : 1740083911

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The Pearl Hunters by John P. McD. Smith Pdf

During the middle of the nineteenth century the hunting and gathering of pearl shell in the Torres Strait became an intense industry. White men soon dominated the industry and they employed Torres Strait islanders, South Sea Islanders and Japanese to work on the pearling luggers and dive for the shell and do the menial work for unbelievably low wages. Aborigines were paid almost nothing to gather beche-de-mer and boil it down for sale to the Chinese. The industry developed into a culture of ethnic exploitation.The Pearl Hunters tells the story of a Torres Strait Islander from Hammond Island called Morris who is kidnapped from his lugger along with one of his friends by a ruthless pearler who inflicts much suffering on the lads. Eventually they manage to escape with two crewmembers and find their way to the mining district of Maytown in North Queensland. Their fortunes improve but they still live a precarious existence in the gold mining area and are soon compelled to escape when their white employer is arrested for illegal gold dealings. They are pursued when they escape from the mountains and find their way to Cooks Town. Upon returning to Thursday Island Morris is horrified to find that the woman he loves has been bought and abducted by a white pearler. He must find his love, Wolou and save her!In time the four escapees return to Hammond Island where they are received with much joy. They begin their own pearling but encounter opposition. When World War 2 breaks out Morris becomes a Coast Watcher and his Japanese friend leaves to work on a Japanese lugger. There is suspicion and confusion leading to the traumatic confrontation between Morris and his Japanese friend, Kosaka. What is the outcome for these old friends and the people of Hammond Island?

Author : Stephen Mullins
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817320249

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Octopus Crowd by Stephen Mullins Pdf

A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia’s most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists—they were referred to as an “octopus crowd”—and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops. Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all of these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia’s shifting sociopolitical landscape

Author : Norman Lindsay,Colin Simpson
Publisher : Angus & Robertson
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036398944

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The New Australia by Norman Lindsay,Colin Simpson Pdf

Author : Noah Riseman,Richard Trembath
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780702257124

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Defending Country by Noah Riseman,Richard Trembath Pdf

The role of Aboriginal servicemen and women has only recently been brought to the forefront of conversation about Australia’s war history. This important book makes a key contribution to recording the role played by Indigenous Australians in our recent military history. Written by two respected historians and based on a substantial number of interviews with Indigenous war veterans who have hitherto been without a voice, it combines the best of social and military history in one book. This will be the first book to focus on this previously neglected part of Australian social history.

Author : Mark McKenna
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780593185780

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Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna Pdf

Return to Uluru explores the cold case that strikes at the heart of Australia’s white supremacy—the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark. Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museum’s storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years before. His misspelled name is etched on the crown, but the many bones in boxes around him remain unidentified. Who was Yokununna, and how did he die? His story reveals the layered, exploitative white Australian mindset that has long rendered Aboriginal reality all but invisible. When policeman Bill McKinnon’s Aboriginal prisoners escape in 1934, he’s determined to get them back. Tracking them across the so called "dead heart" of the country, he finds the men at Uluru, a sacred rock formation. What exactly happened there remained a mystery, even after a Commonwealth inquiry. But Mark McKenna’s research uncovers new evidence, getting closer to the truth, revealing glimpses of indigenous life, and demonstrating the importance of this case today. Using McKinnon’s private journal entries, McKenna paints a picture of the police officer's life to better understand how white Australians treat the center of the country and its inhabitants. Return to Uluru dives deeply into one cold case. But it also provides a searing indictment of the historical white supremacy still present in Australia—and has fascinating, illuminating parallels to the growing racial justice movements in the United States.

Author : Samuel Milner
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515027821

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Victory in Papua by Samuel Milner Pdf

This is a companion volume to the one on Guadalcanal in the series on the war in the Pacific. Both record the operations designed to halt the advance of the enemy toward the vital transpacific line of communications with Australia and secure Australia as a base. Success in Papua and Guadalcanal, achieved in February 1943, put the Allied forces in a position to neutralize Rabaul and, this accomplished, to advance to the Philippines. The present volume concentrates on the action of one United States Army division. In telling the story of a comparatively limited number of troops, the author has been able to present the combat experience of small units in sharper focus than has been possible in most of the other full-scale campaign volumes. The campaign abounds in lessons. Of these one of the most vital is the frequent necessity for all commanders to evaluate their own actions by asking themselves this question: "How could I have helped, how should I have helped, how can I help my subordinates to accomplish their assigned tasks?"

Author : George Frederick Kunz,Charles Hugh Stevenson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547085805

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The Book of the Pearl by George Frederick Kunz,Charles Hugh Stevenson Pdf

The preparation of this book has been a joint labor during the spare moments of the two authors, whose time has been occupied with subjects to which pearls are not wholly foreign—one as a gem expert, and the other in the fisheries branch of the American government. For many years the writers have collected data on the subject of pearls, and have accumulated all the obtainable literature, not only the easily procurable books, but likewise manuscripts, copies of rare volumes, original edicts, and legislative enactments, thousands of newspaper clippings, and interesting illustrations, many of them unique, making probably the largest single collection of data in existence on this particular subject. It was deemed advisable to present the results of these studies and observations in one harmonious volume, rather than in two different publications. While the book is a joint work in the sense that each writer has contributed material to all of the chapters and has critically examined and approved the entire work, the senior author has more closely applied himself to the latter half of the text, covering antiquity values, commerce, wearing manipulation, treatment, famous collections, aboriginal use, and the illustrations, while the junior author has attended to the earlier half of the book, with reference to history, origin, sources, fisheries, culture, mystical properties, and the literature of the pearl.

Author : George Frederick Kunz
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342432052

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The Book of the Pearl; The History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems by George Frederick Kunz Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jill Julius Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064901641

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Dance Hall & Picture Palace by Jill Julius Matthews Pdf

This book paints Sydney between the depressions of the 1890s and the 1930s as a prosperous city riding an international wave of modernism. In the pub, parlour and pulpit, people clashed over the significance of moving pictures, jazz, new dance crazes, the radio, gramophone records and cheap magazines. Conventional accounts of the Australian film industry at the beginning of the twentieth century focus on the impact of Hollywood on local production. But in this vibrant history, the author shows how moving pictures captured the imagination of Sydneys people and transformed how they thought about the world. Jill Julius Matthews describes how in Sydney, as elsewhere, young flappers came to embody both glamour and decadence in modern city life. She uncovers entrepreneurs bribing politicians as they aggressively pursued profits for their American patrons and reveals the innovative marketing techniques that provoked cultural elites to deplore commercialisation.

Author : Paul Burke
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921862434

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Law's Anthropology by Paul Burke Pdf

Anthropologists have been appearing as key expert witnesses in native title claims for over 20 years. Until now, however, there has been no theoretically-informed, detailed investigation of how the expert testimony of anthropologists is formed and how it is received by judges. This book examines the structure and habitus of both the field of anthropology and the juridical field and how they have interacted in four cases, including the original hearing in the Mabo case. The analysis of background material has been supplemented by interviews with the key protagonists in each case. This allows the reader a unique, insider's perspective of the courtroom drama that unfolds in each case. The book asks, given the available ethnographic research, how will the anthropologist reconstruct it in a way that is relevant to the legal doctrine of native title when that doctrine gives a wide leeway for interpretation on the critical questions.

Author : Neu Guinea Compagnie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4217505

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German New Guinea by Neu Guinea Compagnie Pdf

"In 1885 the New Guinea Compagnie was granted sovereign powers over German New Guinea, comprising the north-eastern part of the New Guinea mainland, kniown as Kaiser Wilhelmland, and the Bismarck Archipelago... This territory, with some significant extensions, it continued to administer until 1899 when German New Guinea came under the direct administration of the Reich. [This book] collects together all the official reports of the company's administration and of the fifteen years of direct rule."--Book jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 991 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1248486686

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The Army Air Forces in World War II by Anonim Pdf

Author : Noel Loos,Eddie Koiki Mabo
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780702251603

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Eddie Koiki Mabo by Noel Loos,Eddie Koiki Mabo Pdf

'He was in the best sense a fighter for equal rights, a rebel, a free-thinker, a restless spirit, a reformer who saw far into the future and far into the past.' Dr Bryan Keon-Cohen, plaintiffs' barrister in the Mabo litigation Here, largely in his own words, is the incredible story of Edward Koiki Mabo, from his childhood on the Island of Mer through to his struggle within the union cause and the black rights movement. Tragically, Mabo died just months before the historic High Court native-title decision that destroyed forever the concept of terra nullius. Originally published by UQP in 1996, this new edition has been updated by Mabo's long-time friend historian Noel Loos. New photographs and a preface by esteemed film director Rachel Perkins give this book the new life it deserves.

Author : Mary Ellen Condon-Rall,Albert E. Cowdrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN : 0160492653

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The Medical Department by Mary Ellen Condon-Rall,Albert E. Cowdrey Pdf