Sunburnt Country

Author : Anika Molesworth
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760988173

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Our Sunburnt Country by Anika Molesworth Pdf

Anika Molesworth fell in love with her family's farm, a sheep station near Broken Hill, at an early age. She formed a bond with the land as though it were a member of her family. When the Millennium Drought hit, though, bringing with it heatwaves and duststorms, the future she'd always imagined for herself began to seem impossible. As she learned more about the causes of - and the solutions to - the extreme weather that was killing her land and her livelihood, Anika became fired up and determined to speak out. Talking to farmers and food producers all around the world, she soon realised that there was a way forward that could be both practical and sustainable - if only we can build up the courage to take it. Beautifully written and full of hope, Our Sunburnt Country shows that there is a way to protect our land, our food and our future, and it is within our grasp. Praise for Our Sunburnt Country: 'In Australia our climate debate can be depressing. In the hands of Anika Molesworth it is uplifting and full of hope.' - Craig Reucassel 'Anika Molesworth invites us to imagine a better future. Read this book and be inspired.' - Michael E. Mann 'In a hope-filled, personal tale framed by her family farm in a sun-baked landscape, Anika Molesworth weaves philosophy, science and a poet's eye into a heartwarming tale of how to help heal the planet.' - Matthew Evans 'This is an important, accessible and evocative book written by a farmer and scientist in that most vital of spaces: the future of our Earth. This book can be part of the solution.' - Charles Massy 'A personal journey spurred by climate change in the west of NSW, learning what can be done and why it is worth doing.' - Ross Garnaut

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Australia
ISBN : 038540817X

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Down Under, Or, In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Pdf

Author : Margaret Cook,Lionel Frost,Andrea Gaynor,Jenny Gregory,Ruth A. Morgan,Martin Shanahan,Peter Spearritt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108831581

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Cities in a Sunburnt Country by Margaret Cook,Lionel Frost,Andrea Gaynor,Jenny Gregory,Ruth A. Morgan,Martin Shanahan,Peter Spearritt Pdf

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

Author : Joelle Gergis
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525285033

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Sunburnt Country by Joelle Gergis Pdf

What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles? Sunburnt Country pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It uncovers a continent long vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It gives an unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been with us for millions of years, and what climate change looks like in our own backyard. Sunburnt Country highlights the impact of a warming planet on Australian lifestyles and ecosystems and the power we all have to shape future life on Earth.

Author : Jackie French
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743099841

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To Love a Sunburnt Country by Jackie French Pdf

In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her sister-in-law Moira and baby nephew Gavin. Yet despite the threat of Japanese invasion, Moira resists, wanting to stay near her husband Ben. But not even Nancy of the Overflow can stop the fall of Singapore and the capture of so many Australian troops. When their ship is bombed, Nancy, Moira and Gavin are reported missing. Back home at Gibbers Creek, Michael refuses to believe the girl he loves has died. As Darwin, Broome and even Sydney are bombed, Australians must fight to save their country. But as Michael and the families of Gibbers Creek discover, there are many ways to love your country, and many ways to fight for it. From one of Australia's most-admired storytellers comes a gripping and unforgettable novel based on true events and little-known people. This is a story about ultimate survival and the deepest kinds of love. PRAISE 'A book about a love of country that is heartwarming and heartbreaking, and hard to put down.' -- Adelaide Advertiser, 4 stars

Author : Deborah FitzGerald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760855413

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Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah FitzGerald Pdf

The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been written about the poet’s extraordinary life. From her childhood and youth in Sydney’s Point Piper, to discovering her love for the Australian landscape on the family farm in Gunnedah, Dorothea engaged with the intellectual elite of Sydney and abroad as she embarked on a decades-long literary career that saw her linked to some of the leading lights of her day. A keen traveller, Dorothea ventured as far as Japan, Egypt and the Caribbean between longer stints in Europe. In the heart of literary London, she socialised with Joseph Conrad and Ezra Pound. At home, she counted among her friends Ether Turner, the famed war correspondent Charles Bean, and journalistic royalty in the form of the Fairfax family. Never before published letters and diaries reveal her unorthodox relationship with her best friend and collaborator Ruth Bedford. Battling against a masculine tradition of Australian bush poetry led by Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, Dorothea Mackellar boldly carved out a place for herself, leaving an indelible mark on the Australian imagination. Now, for the first time, the poet's unconventional life story is told – a hidden gem of Australian history, and a tale of one woman’s extraordinary passion for her poetry, her family and her country.

Author : Graham Joseph Hill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666715224

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Sunburnt Country, Sweeping Pains by Graham Joseph Hill Pdf

Asian immigration is transforming the Australian church and society. Migration from Asian countries occupies six of the ten largest groups migrating to Australia. While most Australian churches are declining and aging, Asian Australian churches are young and growing. The end of white Australian Christianity is near. The future of the church is Asian. Sunburnt Country, Sweeping Pains shares the stories of Asian Australian women as they experience inequality, racism, sexism, and stereotypes in ministry and mission. These women also talk about the joy and meaning they find in serving God's church and world. In this book, Graham Joseph Hill examines 21,987 NCLS surveys, 36 detailed surveys, and 15 in-depth interviews with Asian Australian Christian women. These women share their stories of discrimination and efforts to bring change. They also offer proposals for a more equal, fair, and just Australian church. Sunburnt Country, Sweeping Pains is essential reading for all who value the voices and stories of women and want to address racism and sexism in church and society. Asian Australian Christian women guide us toward a multiethnic church that values equality and dignity for women and men of all cultures.

Author : Fiona Palmer
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742535968

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The Sunburnt Country by Fiona Palmer Pdf

Jonelle Baxter is a young woman in a man's world - a tough, hardworking motor mechanic from an idyllic country family. But lately things in her perfect life have been changing, and her workshop isn't the only local business that's struggling. Daniel Tyler is new in town, posted from the city to manage the community bank. As he tries to rein in the spiralling debts of Bundara, he uncovers all sorts of personal dramas and challenges. The last thing Jonny and Dan need is an unwanted attraction to each other. She has enough problems just keeping her livelihood going and he's fighting pressures that stretch all the way to Perth. It's going to take more than a good drop of rain to break the drought and bring change in love and in life. A moving and heartwarming story about the beauty that's found in the bush, especially in the most trying of times.

Author : Dorothea Mackellar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : 0947163476

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I Love a Sunburnt Country by Dorothea Mackellar Pdf

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781409095637

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Down Under by Bill Bryson Pdf

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life – a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring such dangers – and yet curiously obsessed by them – Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn’t get much better than this...

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674539

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In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Pdf

Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous, In a Sunburned Country takes us on a grand tour of Australia. It's a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister lost — yes, lost — while swimming at sea, to Japanese cult members who may (entirely unnoticed) have set off an atomic bomb on their 500,000 acre property in the great western desert. Australia is the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country. Its aboriginal people, a remote and mysterious race with a tragic history, have made it their home for millennia. And despite the fact that it is the most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all inhabited continents, it teems with life. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else: sharks, crocodiles, the planet's ten most deadly poisonous snakes, fluffy yet toxic caterpillars, sea shells that actually attack you, and the unbelievable box jellyfish (don't ask). The dangerous riptides of the sea and the sun-baked wastes of the outback both lie in wait for the unwary. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide. In a Sunburned Country offers the best of all possible introductions to what may well be the best of all possible nations. Even with those jellyfish.

Author : Society of Australian Writers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Australia
ISBN : UOM:39015065611074

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The Sunburnt Country by Society of Australian Writers Pdf

Collection of essays on Australia written by The Society of Australian Writers in Great Britain as a tribute to H.M. Queen Elizabeth II; includes a few references to Aborigines; article by J. McLaren with observations on Aboriginal life style and customs.

Author : Bill Beavan,Dorothea Mackellar
Publisher : Adelaide : Rigby
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000004961048

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A Sunburnt Country by Bill Beavan,Dorothea Mackellar Pdf

Author : Fiona Palmer (Romance fiction writer)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1925995747

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The Sunburnt Country by Fiona Palmer (Romance fiction writer) Pdf

Jonelle Baxter is a young woman in a man's world - a tough, hardworking motor mechanic from an idyllic country family. But lately things in her perfect life have been changing, and her workshop isn't the only local business that's struggling. Daniel Tyler is new in town, posted from the city to manage the community bank. As he tries to resin in the spiralling debts of Bundara, he uncovers all sorts of personal dramas and challenges. The last thing Jonny and Dan need is an unwanted attraction to each other. She has enough problems just keeping her livelihood going and he's fighting pressures that stretch all the way to Perth. It's going to take more than a good drop of rain to break the drought and bring change in love and in life.

Author : Arthur J. Baillie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCAL:B2805845

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Our Sunburnt Country by Arthur J. Baillie Pdf

Includes general chapter on the history, life-style and customs of the Aborigines.