Body At The Melbourne Club

Author : David Burke
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1862548331

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Body at the Melbourne Club by David Burke Pdf

Bertram Armytage, son of a wealthy squatter, a popular sportsman who rowed for Cambridge, was the first Australian-born member of an Antarctic expedition. An expert horseman, he was given charge of the ponies in Ernest Shackleton's great 1907-1909 expedition, narrowly escaping the jaws of killer whales. In London he was decorated by royalty, but on coming home to Australia he went to his part-time city residence, the exclusive Melbourne Club, put on his dinner suit and polar medals and, at the age of 41, shot himself. This mystery-cum-biography provides a new perspective on one of Shackleton's greatest expeditions.

Author : Roy Hay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527528529

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Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century by Roy Hay Pdf

This book will revolutionise the history of Indigenous involvement in Australian football in the second half of the nineteenth century. It collects new evidence to show how Aboriginal people saw the cricket and football played by those who had taken their land and resources and forced their way into them in the missions and stations around the peripheries of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. They learned the game and brought their own skills to it, eventually winning local leagues and earning the respect of their contemporaries. They were prevented from reaching higher levels by the gatekeepers of the domestic game until late in the twentieth century. Their successors did not come from nowhere.

Author : David Burke
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1459643704

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Body at the Melbourne Club by David Burke Pdf

Bertram Armytage, son of a wealthy squatter, a popular sportsman who rowed for Cambridge, was the first Australian - born member of an Antarctic expedition. An expert horseman, he was given charge of the ponies in Ernest Shackleton's great 1907 - 1909 expedition, narrowly escaping the jaws of killer whales. In London he was decorated by royalty, but on coming home to Australia he went to his part - time city residence, the exclusive Melbourne Club, put on his dinner suit and polar medals and, at the age of 41, shot himself. This mystery - cum - biography provides a new perspective on one of Shackleton's greatest expeditions.

Author : Robert Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521484391

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Writing the Colonial Adventure by Robert Dixon Pdf

This book explores imperial ideology through the narrative themes of popular texts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rotary International
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Proceedings: Twenty-Third Annual Convention of Rotary International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jared van Duinen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137527783

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The British World and an Australian National Identity by Jared van Duinen Pdf

This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing relations within the ‘British World’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores what these interactions can tell us about broader Anglo-Australian relations during this period and, in particular, the evolution of an Australian national identity. Sport was, and is, a key aspect of Australian culture. Jared van Duinen demonstrates how sport was used to rehearse an identity that would then emerge in broader cultural and political terms. Using cricket as a case study, this book contributes to the ongoing historiographical debate about the nature and evolution of an Australian national identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000429182

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Westminster Chess Club Papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Greg Growden
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460711149

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Cricketers at War by Greg Growden Pdf

Aussie cricketing heroes who also fought for Australia during wartime 'That's nothing. Pressure is having a Messerschmitt up your arse.' Keith Miller, when asked if he felt under pressure while captaining the NSW cricket team. Numerous heroes of Australian cricket have also proved themselves on the battlefield, from Gallipoli to Vietnam and beyond. Among them are some of Australia's most illustrious cricketing names: Donald Bradman, Keith Miller, Keith Carmody, Jack Fingleton and, in more recent years, Doug Walters. In this sport/history page-turner, veteran sports journalist Greg Growden tells their extraordinary stories of bravery, hardship, courage and human endeavour.

Author : Victoria. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWBZF4

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Parliamentary Debates by Victoria. Parliament Pdf

Author : Tresham Gilbey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Recreation
ISBN : UIUC:30112112130072

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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes by Tresham Gilbey Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2994310

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Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Sports
ISBN : CORNELL:31924056293081

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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Henry Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555074793

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The Coursing calendar, ed. by 'Stonehenge'. by John Henry Walsh Pdf

Author : Shelley Richardson
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760460594

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Family Experiments by Shelley Richardson Pdf

Family Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of ‘family’ that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. Their attempts to establish and define ‘family’ in Australasian, suburban environments reveal how the Victorian theory of ‘separate spheres’ could take a variety of forms in the new world setting. The attitudes and assumptions that shaped these family experiments may be placed on a continuum that extends from John Ruskin’s concept of evangelical motherhood to John Stuart Mill’s rational secularism. Central to their thinking was a belief in the power of education to produce civilised and humane individuals who, as useful citizens, would individually and in concert nurture a better society. Such ideas pushed them to the forefront of colonial liberalism. The pursuit of higher education for their daughters merged with and, in some respects, influenced first-wave colonial feminism. They became the first generation of colonial, middle-class parents to grapple not only with the problem of shaping careers for their sons but also, and more frustratingly, what graduate daughters might do next.

Author : Chris Daniher
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459603790

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The Danihers by Chris Daniher Pdf

A revealing account of how four unassuming blokes from the bush endeared themselves to Australian Rules fans and became part of football folklore.