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Author : Barbara Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1925023826
Author : Miriam Estensen
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781741760866
In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait and very possibly the first European to sight the east coast of Australia. Terra Australis Incognita focuses new light on the Spanish voyages of discovery that sailed from South America into the unknown south western Pacific in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Crossing the planet's largest ocean in small wooden ships with rudimentary navigation, these Spanish conquistadors were in search of the legendary Great South Land first imagined by the ancient Greeks. This is a story of passionate beliefs, of high hopes and catastrophic failures, of attempted colonies that ended in death and disaster, of violent confrontations and tentative friendship with indigenous people, of a fierce clash of cultures, and relentless ambition in search of the gold of King Solomon's Ophir. It is also the story of the visionary adventurer Quiros who planned a New Jerusalem in today's Vanuatu, the ruthless woman governor Dona Isabel, the Solomon Islander chief Bilebanarra who was a friend of the Spaniards and, of course, the great leader of men Luis Vaes de Torres. Terra Australis Incognita is a thoroughly researched, lucidly written and unique narrative on the little known history of the great Spanish explorations of the Pacific Ocean.
Author : Alfred Hiatt,Christopher Wortham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317139454
Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.
Author : Barbara Miller
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781640696303
While this book is an up-to-date account of the situation in Australia generally and particularly in Yarrabah, an Aboriginal community near Cairns, Queensland, most of the research was done in 1984. This was an incredibly significant time when nearly 100 years of legal oppression and segregation of Indigenous people in Queensland came to an end. What began in 1897 as legislation to ostensibly protect Indigenous people from white society, including outright slaughter, ended up as the Queensland Aborigines Act which put them on reserves with a permit system like apartheid South Africa? Read real life stories about segregation, self-management, land rights and human rights.
Author : Pedro Fernandes de Queirós
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066093136
"Terra Australis Incognita; Or, A New Southern Discovery, containing A Fifth Part of the World" by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós was a useful and fascinating text that brought the exotic and largely mysterious world of Australia to readers around the world. Originally written for the Spanish king, the book detailed the writer's explorations so the monarch could make an informed decision about colonial prospects.
Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300220414
Originial edition has subtitle: extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery to Australia.
Author : Naira de Gracia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982182762
Lab Girl meets Why Fish Don’t Exist in this “compelling blend of memoir, environmental writing, and scientific exploration” (Kirkus Reviews) from a young scientist studying penguins in Antarctica—a firsthand account of the beauty and brutality of this remote climate, the direct effects of climate change on animals, and the challenges of fieldwork. Offering a dramatic, captivating window into a once-in-a-lifetime experience, The Last Cold Place details Naira de Gracia’s time living and working in a remote outpost in Antarctica alongside seals, penguins, and a small crew of fellow field workers. In one of the most inhospitable environments in the world (for humans, anyway), Naira follows a generation of chinstrap penguins from their parents’ return to shore to build nests from pebbles until the chicks themselves are old enough to head out to sea. Naira describes the life cycle of a funny, engaging colony of chinstrap penguins whose food source (krill, or small crustaceans) is powerfully affected by the changing ocean in lively and entertaining anecdotes. Weaving together the history of Antarctic exploration with climate science, field observations, and her own personal journey of growth and reflection, The Last Cold Place illuminates the complex place that Antarctica holds in our cultural imagination—and offers a rare glimpse into life on this uninhabited continent.
Author : Miriam Estensen
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1865081396
Six centuries before the birth of Christ, men began to dream of a vast land at the bottom of the world. This is the story of a quest which, across two millennia, compelled men in small ships to traverse unknown seas and endure great hardship in order to discover the last continent.
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780752494821
The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.
Author : Allen G. Mawer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1922669733
Author : Helmut K. Anheier,Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2073 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412994224
"With all entries followed by cross-references and further reading lists, this current resource is ideal for high school and college students looking for connecting ideas and additional sources on them. The work brings together the many facets of global studies into a solid reference tool and will help those developing and articulating an ideological perspective." — Library Journal The Encyclopedia of Global Studies is the reference work for the emerging field of global studies. It covers both transnational topics and intellectual approaches to the study of global themes, including the globalization of economies and technologies; the diaspora of cultures and dispersion of peoples; the transnational aspects of social and political change; the global impact of environmental, technological, and health changes; and the organizations and issues related to global civil society. Key Themes: • Global civil society • Global communications, transportation, technology • Global conflict and security • Global culture, media • Global demographic change • Global economic issues • Global environmental and energy issues • Global governance and world order • Global health and nutrition • Global historical antecedents • Global justice and legal issues • Global religions, beliefs, ideologies • Global studies • Identities in global society Readership: Students and academics in the fields of politics and international relations, international business, geography and environmental studies, sociology and cultural studies, and health.
Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1350154806
"In this comprehensive new study, leading historian Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. Introducing new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial, colonial and maritime history"--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781741263589
The year 2006 celebrates the 400th anniversary of European involvement in the discovery and mapping of Australia. The contributions of the Dutch, French and British navigators and explorers, who charted and named much of the coastline, are explored through student activities and teachers notes.
Author : G. Allen Mawer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1925003590
The southern hemisphere is manly land. So said medieval Europeans, raised on a heavy brew of folklore, biblical revelation and geographical theory. It is how they imagined it. So powerful was the hold of this received wisdom that when geographical discoveries, however insignificants, were made in the southern oceans, they were greeted as evidence that the expected continental landmasses, rich and fertile, might at last have been found.
Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350214545
Terra Australis Incognita -- Seventeenth-century Dutch Exploration -- Tasman's Voyages -- From Tasman to Cook -- Cook, the Endeavour and the East Coast -- French Voyages to Terra Australis -- English Voyages in the Age of Bligh and Vancouver -- Flinders and the Investigator -- Baudin's Expedition -- Phillip Parker King's Australian Surveys -- The Hydrographic Surveyors.
