The Aboriginal Story Of Burke And Wills

Author : Ian Clark,Fred Cahir
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643108103

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The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills by Ian Clark,Fred Cahir Pdf

The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to which this affected the outcome of the expedition. The book offers a reinterpretation of the literature surrounding Burke and Wills, using official correspondence, expedition journals and diaries, visual art, and archaeological and linguistic research – and then complements this with references to Aboriginal oral histories and social memory. It highlights the interaction of expedition members with Aboriginal people and their subsequent contribution to Aboriginal studies. The book also considers contemporary and multi-disciplinary critiques that the expedition members were, on the whole, deficient in bush craft, especially in light of the expedition’s failure to use Aboriginal guides in any systematic way. Generously illustrated with historical photographs and line drawings, The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is an important resource for Indigenous people, Burke and Wills history enthusiasts and the wider community. This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council project.

Author : Ian Clark,Fred Cahir
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780643108097

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The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills by Ian Clark,Fred Cahir Pdf

The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to which this affected the outcome of the expedition. The book offers a reinterpretation of the literature surrounding Burke and Wills, using official correspondence, expedition journals and diaries, visual art, and archaeological and linguistic research – and then complements this with references to Aboriginal oral histories and social memory. It highlights the interaction of expedition members with Aboriginal people and their subsequent contribution to Aboriginal studies. The book also considers contemporary and multi-disciplinary critiques that the expedition members were, on the whole, deficient in bush craft, especially in light of the expedition’s failure to use Aboriginal guides in any systematic way. Generously illustrated with historical photographs and line drawings, The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is an important resource for Indigenous people, Burke and Wills history enthusiasts and the wider community. This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council project.

Author : Ivan Southall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:421566558

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Journey into mystery: a story of the explorers Burke and Wills by Ivan Southall Pdf

Author : Dave Phoenix
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781486301591

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Following Burke and Wills Across Australia by Dave Phoenix Pdf

Every Australian has heard of Burke and Wills but few have travelled in their footsteps. In 2008, historian Dave Phoenix decided to walk across Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, following the track taken by the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition. Now you can follow them too. Following Burke and Wills Across Australia guides you on a road trip that follows one of history’s great transcontinental journeys, sharing the explorers’ experiences on the way. Maps lay out a route that takes you as close as possible to the Expedition’s track. As you travel the outback roads, you can learn all the details of the day to day journey of the Expedition from the explorers’ own words, and compare what you see with their descriptions of the country in 1860–61. Each chapter provides information about what to see now: the location and descriptions of the markers and memorials placed along the route over the 150 years since the Expedition, and places where you can stand where the explorers stood and look out over prospects they drew and described. The book is a perfect companion for those wanting to see outback Australia, and at the same time understand a journey that has attained mythic status in the history of Australian exploration. Even if you want to follow only part of the track, this is the book for you.

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780733634093

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Burke and Wills by Peter FitzSimons Pdf

The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller. 'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off, farewelled by 15,000 cheering well-wishers. Led by Robert O'Hara Burke, a brave man totally lacking in the bush skills necessary for his task; surveyor and meteorologist William Wills; and 17 others, the expedition took 20 tons of equipment carried on six wagons, 23 horses and 26 camels. Almost immediately plagued by disputes and sackings, the expeditioners battled the extremes of the Australian landscape and weather: its deserts, the boggy mangrove swamps of the Gulf, the searing heat and flooding rains. Food ran short and, unable to live off the land, the men nevertheless mostly spurned the offers of help from the local Indigenous people. In desperation, leaving the rest of the party at the expedition's depot on Coopers Creek, Burke, Wills, Charley Gray and John King made a dash for the Gulf in December 1860. Bad luck and bad management would see them miss by just hours a rendezvous back at Coopers Creek, leaving them stranded in the wilderness with practically no supplies. Only King survived to tell the tale. Yet, despite their tragic fates, the names of Burke and Wills have become synonymous with perseverance and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. They live on in our nation's history - and their story remains immediate and compelling.

Author : Edmund Bernard Joyce
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780643103320

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Burke and Wills by Edmund Bernard Joyce Pdf

Reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of the Burke and Wills Expedition.

Author : William John Wills,William Wills
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCAL:$B304856

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A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by William John Wills,William Wills Pdf

Author : William Buckley,Tim Flannery
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781921776595

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The Life and Adventures of William Buckley by William Buckley,Tim Flannery Pdf

‘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 : Ted Henzell
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780643993426

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Australian Agriculture by Ted Henzell Pdf

Focusing on the technologies that the farmers and graziers actually used, this book follows the history of each of the major commodities of groups of commodities to the end of the 20th century, grain crops, sheep and wool, beef and dairy, wine and others. Issues facing agriculture as it enters the 21st century are also discussed.

Author : Tim Bonyhady
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781925774689

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The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat by Tim Bonyhady Pdf

A surprising and absorbing new work of scientific, historical and environmental investigation, featuring one of Australia’s most misunderstood native animals, the long-haired rat.

Author : Tom Bergin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0642974136

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In the Steps of Burke & Wills by Tom Bergin Pdf

Burke and Wills journey from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes sections from original journals which mention Aborigines on the route.

Author : Benjamin Wilkie
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486307708

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Gariwerd by Benjamin Wilkie Pdf

People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians explores the geological and ecological significance of the mountains and combines research from across disciplines to tell the story of how humans and the environment have interacted, and how the ways people have thought about the environments of the ranges have changed through time. In this new account, historian Benjamin Wilkie examines how Djab wurrung and Jardwadjali people and their ancestors lived in and around the mountains, how they managed the land and natural resources, and what kinds of archaeological evidence they have left behind over the past 20 000 years. He explores the history of European colonisation in the area from the middle of the 19th century and considers the effects of this on both the first people of Gariwerd and the environments of the ranges and their surrounding plains in western Victoria. The book covers the rise of science, industry and tourism in the mountains, and traces the eventual declaration of the Grampians National Park in 1984. Finally, it examines more recent debates about the past, present and future of the park, including over its significant Indigenous history and heritage.

Author : Sarah Murgatroyd
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921922268

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The Dig Tree by Sarah Murgatroyd Pdf

Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. ‘Without some change,’ he wrote, ‘I see little chance for any of us.’ In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O’Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of Melbourne. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to become the first European to cross the Australian continent. A few months later, an ancient coolibah tree at Cooper Creek bore a strange carving: ‘Dig Under 3ft NW’. Burke, Wills and five other men were dead. The expedition had become an astonishing tragedy. Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the story of the disaster with all its heroism and romance, its discoveries, coincidences and lost opportunities. Generously illustrated with photographs, paintings and maps, The Dig Tree is a spell-binding book.

Author : Peta Jeffries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : OCLC:967595755

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Becoming "Brave and Gallant" by Peta Jeffries Pdf

"The history of the Victorian Exploring Expedition (VEE), also known as {u2018}Burke and Wills{u2019}, has commonly been told as a story of {u2018}brave and gallant men{u2019} who ventured into an unfamiliar landscape and became victims of the {u2018}ghastly blank{u2019} interior of Australia. Visual artists and historians have memorialised these men as solo-hero explorers who sacrificed their youth and life potential for the sake of Australian nation. The myth of Burke and Wills is a constructed narrative and symbol of glory and achievement that denies the involvement of significant others in exploration and geographical knowledge creation. The path the VEE created through the centre of Australia opened up the broader continent for rapid colonisation and imperial expansion. The tragic legacy of the deaths of Burke and Wills is part of the Australian identity, however, some major aspects of the VEE successes and failures have been sidelined, silenced and even completely ignored in many historical accounts. The historical and visual art accounts that contributed to the memorialisation of Burke and Wills often denied the involvement of other exploration team members, the relief expeditions who went in search of the missing explorers, various intermediaries, guides, go-betweens and significantly Aboriginal peoples{u2019} close involvement and or resistance to interior exploration. Yandruwandha people have been remembered as a friendly and accommodating community who assisted the explorers in their last days and who cared for John King. Within the archives and social memories are examples of agency, power, resistance, and varied perspectives of Burke and Wills. This ethnographic history asks why relations between the explorers, Aboriginal peoples and landscape have been told the way they have and provides examples of encounter and exchange, mutual adaptation and the co-production of knowledge as a way to decolonise the myths of Burke and Wills." -- Taken from Abstract.

Author : Donna Bridges,Clifford Lewis,Elizabeth Wulff,Chelsea Litchfield,Larissa Bamberry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000906189

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Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies by Donna Bridges,Clifford Lewis,Elizabeth Wulff,Chelsea Litchfield,Larissa Bamberry Pdf

Exploring scholarship, research, practice and activism on gender, feminist and queer studies, this edited collection examines, analyses and critiques the nature and causes of inequality, disadvantage and marginalisation faced by women, non-hegemonic and LGBTIQA+ identities who do not fit hegemonic notions of masculinity, femininity and heteronormativity. The chapters in this book critically analyse and challenge visible and invisible power relations, privilege and prejudice by problematising the artificial organisation of people into hierarchies that preference hegemonic masculinities, white and heteronormative identities. In questioning often unchallenged and legitimised inequality and disadvantage, this book locates itself in the juxtaposition where the lived experiences of individuals, activism, community participation, research and scholarship collide with mainstream, local, national and globalised culture and politics. Divided into four parts, this book provides a platform for interrogating how social change can occur in the current neoliberal political context of increasing conservatism.