Showing 44 items matching australia - description and travel
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The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Hamish Hamilton, Rum Jungle, 1953
Rum Jungle at the time was a recently discovered uranium mine. The book's principle theme is the sudden appearance of modern science in a region which has not really been civilised by white man. Anecdotal accounts of the authors travels in northern Australia, mainly NT; includes comments and stories about Aborigines; including Albert Namatjira.Ill, maps, p.154.non-fictionRum Jungle at the time was a recently discovered uranium mine. The book's principle theme is the sudden appearance of modern science in a region which has not really been civilised by white man. Anecdotal accounts of the authors travels in northern Australia, mainly NT; includes comments and stories about Aborigines; including Albert Namatjira.northern territory - description and travel, rum jungle - northern territory -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Penryn Goldman, To hell and gone, 1932
... Northern Australia - Description and travel... To hell and gone p.268 Northern Australia - Description and travel ...A record of a 1929-30 historical trip by a Baby Austin car from Adelaide to daly Waters in the Northern Territory, then the return journey to Melbourne in a Vauxhall.p.268non-fictionA record of a 1929-30 historical trip by a Baby Austin car from Adelaide to daly Waters in the Northern Territory, then the return journey to Melbourne in a Vauxhall.northern australia - description and travel, australia - social life and customs -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, McMillan and Co et al, The cruise of Her Majesty's ship Bacchante, 1879-1882 v.1, 1886
... Australia - Description and Travel..., charts, maps, plans, p.675. Australia - Description and Travel ...A description of a world cruise taken by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales.Ill, charts, maps, plans, p.675.non-fictionA description of a world cruise taken by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales.australia - description and travel, voyages around the world -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, McMillan and Co et al, The cruise of Her Majesty's ship Bacchante, 1879-1882 v.2, 1886
... Australia - Description and Travel..., charts, maps, plans, p.803. Australia - Description and Travel ...A description of a world cruise taken by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales.Ill, charts, maps, plans, p.803.non-fictionA description of a world cruise taken by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales.australia - description and travel, voyages around the world -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Kegan Paul Trench Trubner and Co, In Australian tropics, 1907
... Northern Australia - Description and travel... In Australian tropics Ill, maps, p.373. Northern Australia - Description ...Early history of N.T. and explorations; Detailed account of intercepting Macassan proas around coast of Arnhem Land whilst author was Sub-Collector of Customs for 14 years; Names of proas and masters, Malay camps & smoke houses along coast & nearby islands; Natives employed by Malays in trepang fishing and collecting tortoiseshell, relationships between Malays and Aborigines; influences (physical & cultural); Habit of exchanging children between tribes (Roper R. & Normanton) for the purpose of learning each others language & customs; Description of native camps at Fort Dundas (1895) shelters, finding of bark water bags, types of canoes used; Platform burial at Daly R.; Sacred burial site on Maria Island; Geographical features, vegetation, climate etc., general ecology, depredations & murders by natives; Cannibalism practiced by Fitzmaurice River tribes.Ill, maps, p.373.non-fictionEarly history of N.T. and explorations; Detailed account of intercepting Macassan proas around coast of Arnhem Land whilst author was Sub-Collector of Customs for 14 years; Names of proas and masters, Malay camps & smoke houses along coast & nearby islands; Natives employed by Malays in trepang fishing and collecting tortoiseshell, relationships between Malays and Aborigines; influences (physical & cultural); Habit of exchanging children between tribes (Roper R. & Normanton) for the purpose of learning each others language & customs; Description of native camps at Fort Dundas (1895) shelters, finding of bark water bags, types of canoes used; Platform burial at Daly R.; Sacred burial site on Maria Island; Geographical features, vegetation, climate etc., general ecology, depredations & murders by natives; Cannibalism practiced by Fitzmaurice River tribes. northern australia - description and travel, ethnography -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Tobruk to Turkey
The travels of Frank Clune in the Middle East in World war twoIll, map.p.292.non-fictionThe travels of Frank Clune in the Middle East in World war twoaustralian comforts fund, travel and description - middle east -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Frank Fox, Peeps at many lands : Oceania, 1912
... Australia - Description and Travel... - Description and travel Australia - Description and Travel Includes ...Includes general statements on Aboriginal origins; population numbers; description; warfare; their futureIll, maps, p.203.non-fictionIncludes general statements on Aboriginal origins; population numbers; description; warfare; their future oceania - description and travel, australia - description and travel -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Book - Wodonga Australia - Victoria's Top Industrial Town, Wodonga Promotions Committee, 1966
Winning the top award for "Industrial Development" in the Victorian Premier Town Contest 1964, Wodonga was recognised and declared the chief industrially developing town outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. This publication outlines the key features of Wodonga supplemented with photos and maps.non-fictionWinning the top award for "Industrial Development" in the Victorian Premier Town Contest 1964, Wodonga was recognised and declared the chief industrially developing town outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. This publication outlines the key features of Wodonga supplemented with photos and maps.wodonga description and travel, wodonga development -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book, N.J. Caire Landscape Photographer, 1988
... nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australian photographs ...A book of photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire of places and scenery throughout Victoria.A book of photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire of places and scenery throughout Victoria. Photographs by Nicholas John Caire are among the most widely published late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australian photographs. Between 1875 and 1905 Nicholas Caire travelled the Victorian countryside, looking to capture the scenery for the commercial market. His artistic sensitivity created images which earned him popular acceptance during his lifetime and an enduring place as one of Australia's finest landscape photographers.Hardcover. Front cover photograph-Fairy Scene at the Landslip, Blacks' Spur c1878-9; taken by Nicholas John Caire.For Jane and Clarenicholas j caire, photographers, australia, photograpy, landscapes, history, description, travel, views, anne pitkethly, don pitkethly, victoria -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book - Hardcover book, N.J. Caire Landscape Photographer, 1988
... . photographers australia photograpy landscapes history description travel ...A book of photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire of places and scenery throughout Victoria.A book of photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire of places and scenery throughout Victoria. Photographs by Nicholas John Caire are among the most widely published late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australian photographs. Between 1875 and 1905 Nicholas Caire travelled the Victorian countryside, looking to capture the scenery for the commercial market. His artistic sensitivity created images which earned him popular acceptance during his lifetime and an enduring place as one of Australia's finest landscape photographers.Hardcover. Front cover photograph-Fairy Scene at the Landslip, Blacks' Spur c1878-9; taken by Nicholas John Caire.For Jane and Clarephotographers, australia, photograpy, landscapes, history, description, travel, views, anne pitkethly, don pitkethly, nicholas john caire, victoria -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book - Hardcover book, N.J. Caire Landscape Photographer, 1988
... . photographers australia photograpy landscapes history description travel ...A book of photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire of places and scenery throughout Victoria.A book of photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire of places and scenery throughout Victoria. Photographs by Nicholas John Caire are among the most widely published late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australian photographs. Between 1875 and 1905 Nicholas Caire travelled the Victorian countryside, looking to capture the scenery for the commercial market. His artistic sensitivity created images which earned him popular acceptance during his lifetime and an enduring place as one of Australia's finest landscape photographers.Hardcover. Front cover photograph-Fairy Scene at the Landslip, Blacks' Spur c1878-9; taken by Nicholas John Caire.For Jane and Clarephotographers, australia, photograpy, landscapes, history, description, travel, views, anne pitkethly, don pitkethly, nicholas john caire, victoria -
The Celtic Club
Book, Edwin Carton Booth, Australia in the 1870s, 1975
... Australia - Description and travel... vols. Australia - Pictorial works Australia - Description ...A facsimile of the original volume. First published 1873-1876 with engravings. There are brief references to aborigines.Maps, ill, facsim, p.232, 2 vols.non-fictionA facsimile of the original volume. First published 1873-1876 with engravings. There are brief references to aborigines.australia - pictorial works, australia - description and travel -
Victorian Railway History Library
Book, Dennis, Anthony et al, Ticket to Ride: A Rail Journey Around Australia, 1989
... Australia -- Description and travel -- 1976-1990...Railroad travel -- Australia Australia -- Description ...Compelling and often hilarious cavalcade of Australian life during a 20,000 km rail odyssey around Australia and whatever came along in between, from Sydney's Central Station and back again.index, ill, p.144.non-fictionCompelling and often hilarious cavalcade of Australian life during a 20,000 km rail odyssey around Australia and whatever came along in between, from Sydney's Central Station and back again.railroad travel -- australia, australia -- description and travel -- 1976-1990 -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Album - Ringer's River by Des Martin - Plate 13 - A police informant and a trap avoided
Des Martin lived all his life in Wodonga, except for his years of service during World War Two. He was raised on the family property Aherlo in the Huon Creek Valley. In 1937 he joined the 8th Light Horse Regiment but in May 1940 led his Wodonga Troop into the 2/2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion, which saw service in Syria, Java, New Guinea and Borneo. After the war, Des returned to Aherlo and his horses. He was granted permission by the Victorian Racing Club to participate as an amateur “gentleman” rider. He was a founder of the Victorian Amateur Riders Association and also the Murray Valley Hunt Club, for which he was Master for 21 years. He was a prolific writer, cartoonist, photographer and poet, contributing to The Border Morning Mail, The Age, and the Herald and Weekly Times amongst other publications. Des Martin’s other literary works included Australia Astride (1959), A Tale of Twin Cities, Part One (1981) and Backing up the Boys (1998). Des Martin died on 12th April 1995. In 1976, Des wrote an historical novel, “Many a Mile”, based on a fictional region which highly resembled the Albury-Wodonga and Upper Murray area of Victoria. It was set in the last 10 years leading up to Federation. Throughout this period tensions (caused by fluctuating border duties, including an infamous impost on cattle and horses) occasioned the intermittent posting of heavily armed police detachments along the River Murray. Des also wrote eight 50-minute scripts from “Many a Mile” as a television series and were presented to Michael Pate, one of Australia’s leading actors and producers. Also, funding was sought through the Australian Broadcasting Commission ... unfortunately the series never came to fruition. This album is a pictorial precis, including photos and scene descriptions, created to promote the concept of the series and have it produced locally in North Eastern Victoria featuring local settings, skilled horsemen and actors. It was to be called “Ringer’s River” ... Ringer being the title accorded to either a top cattle hand, or the fastest shearer in the wool shed.These albums and images are significant because they document literature written by a prominent member of the Wodonga community. The presentation of this precis was supported by several significant district families and individuals.Coloured photo Plate 13 Through his position as a stockagent's clerk Billy, a proper dingo if ever there was one, is able to learn that some of the cattlemen intend to beat the duty by swimming their newly bought cattle back to Victoria. Sneaking down the back alley to the Police Station he sells this information to the authorities. Only Lennie, the halfwit roustabout from the store, follows and observes him, and, by riding O'Day's horse out of town, prevents his friend from travelling with the drovers who get caught in the police trap. W.O. Tom Foster as a N.S.W. trooper.des martin, many a mile, ringer's river, northeast victoria stories