Showing 5 items matching "china - description and travel"
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Koorie Heritage TrustBook, Burrows, William, Adventures of a mounted trooper, 1986
... Description and travel -- 1851-1900. Contents: Arrival in the colony & visit to the diggings; Road-making in Victoria; The tents and their occupants; Mounted police and their operations; Government Land Surveying; The mounted police again; The sessions at the diggings; Australian Birds; Birds Continued; Australian Animals; The Aboriginal inhabitants; Sheep and cattle stations; Climate and vegetable productions of Australia; Melbourne and its suburbs; Adventures narrated by a log-fire; A voyage to China; Three months in China and voyage to Sydney. ...Contents: Arrival in the colony & visit to the diggings; Road-making in Victoria; The tents and their occupants; Mounted police and their operations; Government Land Surveying; The mounted police again; The sessions at the diggings; Australian Birds; Birds Continued; Australian Animals; The Aboriginal inhabitants; Sheep and cattle stations; Climate and vegetable productions of Australia; Melbourne and its suburbs; Adventures narrated by a log-fire; A voyage to China; Three months in China and voyage to Sydney. Prehistory, early culture contact and history -- Early European contact -- Exploration and expeditions -- Colonisation -- 1851-. Other: Mounted Police -- Black Forest -- Wood End.143 p. ; 21 cm.Contents: Arrival in the colony & visit to the diggings; Road-making in Victoria; The tents and their occupants; Mounted police and their operations; Government Land Surveying; The mounted police again; The sessions at the diggings; Australian Birds; Birds Continued; Australian Animals; The Aboriginal inhabitants; Sheep and cattle stations; Climate and vegetable productions of Australia; Melbourne and its suburbs; Adventures narrated by a log-fire; A voyage to China; Three months in China and voyage to Sydney. Prehistory, early culture contact and history -- Early European contact -- Exploration and expeditions -- Colonisation -- 1851-. Other: Mounted Police -- Black Forest -- Wood End.burrows, william, 1830- -- journeys -- victoria. | victoria -- description and travel -- 1851-1900. -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial LibraryBook, G. Bell & Sons, By flood and field : adventures ashore and afloat in North Australia, 1912
... Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library via Monbulk RSL, 48 Main Rd Monbulk yarra-valley-and-the-dandenong-ranges Northern Australia - Description and travel Northern Australia - Economic relations Factual account of life in the Northern Territory in the late 19th century; - 1st section - Authors adventures as a shipwrecked mariner at Wark Aboriginal Settlement and Port Essington; 2nd section - Detailed narrative of the authors work & explorations as a customs official and as a patrol police officer, stationed at Port Darwin; Description of Malays and their trading ventures by proas; Relations between Malays and Aborigines employment of latter in collecting, trepangs, pearls, tortoise-shells - physical and cultural influences (e.g. intermixture, and language) feuds and murders; Notes on food gathering and hunting (use of wommera) - tracking - corroborrees settling of disputes by simulated fighting - group murder and guilt rites (Malays and Chinese), canoes decorated - Maria Is. sacred burial ground qualities of Aborigines; noted; Intertribal fighting - Woolna tribe against local Darwin Aborigines; Cannibalism at Limba Luchumbo - King River; Contact between Aborigines and settlers, ranging from extreme cruelty to great friendships; Aboriginal girls stolen for domestic work causing trouble; Further accounts of Chinese - opium & gold smuggling; Search for Dylompo - Groote Eylandt unsuccessful. ...Factual account of life in the Northern Territory in the late 19th century; - 1st section - Authors adventures as a shipwrecked mariner at Wark Aboriginal Settlement and Port Essington; 2nd section - Detailed narrative of the authors work & explorations as a customs official and as a patrol police officer, stationed at Port Darwin; Description of Malays and their trading ventures by proas; Relations between Malays and Aborigines employment of latter in collecting, trepangs, pearls, tortoise-shells - physical and cultural influences (e.g. intermixture, and language) feuds and murders; Notes on food gathering and hunting (use of wommera) - tracking - corroborrees settling of disputes by simulated fighting - group murder and guilt rites (Malays and Chinese), canoes decorated - Maria Is. sacred burial ground qualities of Aborigines; noted; Intertribal fighting - Woolna tribe against local Darwin Aborigines; Cannibalism at Limba Luchumbo - King River; Contact between Aborigines and settlers, ranging from extreme cruelty to great friendships; Aboriginal girls stolen for domestic work causing trouble; Further accounts of Chinese - opium & gold smuggling; Search for Dylompo - Groote Eylandt unsuccessful.Ill, p.327.non-fictionFactual account of life in the Northern Territory in the late 19th century; - 1st section - Authors adventures as a shipwrecked mariner at Wark Aboriginal Settlement and Port Essington; 2nd section - Detailed narrative of the authors work & explorations as a customs official and as a patrol police officer, stationed at Port Darwin; Description of Malays and their trading ventures by proas; Relations between Malays and Aborigines employment of latter in collecting, trepangs, pearls, tortoise-shells - physical and cultural influences (e.g. intermixture, and language) feuds and murders; Notes on food gathering and hunting (use of wommera) - tracking - corroborrees settling of disputes by simulated fighting - group murder and guilt rites (Malays and Chinese), canoes decorated - Maria Is. sacred burial ground qualities of Aborigines; noted; Intertribal fighting - Woolna tribe against local Darwin Aborigines; Cannibalism at Limba Luchumbo - King River; Contact between Aborigines and settlers, ranging from extreme cruelty to great friendships; Aboriginal girls stolen for domestic work causing trouble; Further accounts of Chinese - opium & gold smuggling; Search for Dylompo - Groote Eylandt unsuccessful. northern australia - description and travel, northern australia - economic relations -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial LibraryBook, J.M. Dent and Sons, The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian, 1928
... Asia - Description and travel...China...Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library via Monbulk RSL, 48 Main Rd Monbulk yarra-valley-and-the-dandenong-ranges Asia - Description and travel China - History An account of the travels of Marco Polo Index, ill, p.434, The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian Book J.M. ...An account of the travels of Marco PoloIndex, ill, p.434,non-fictionAn account of the travels of Marco Poloasia - description and travel, china - history -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial LibraryBook, T. Fisher Unwin, In forbidden China : the D'Ollone Mission, 1906-1909, China, Tibet, Mongolia, 1912
... China - Description and Travel...Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library via Monbulk RSL, 48 Main Rd Monbulk yarra-valley-and-the-dandenong-ranges China - Description and Travel China - Missions Index, ill, maps, p.318. ...Index, ill, maps, p.318.non-fictionchina - description and travel, china - missions -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial LibraryBook, Hodder and Stoughton, A passport to China : being the tale of her long and friendly sojourning amongst a stangely interesting people, 1931
... China - Description and Travel...Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library via Monbulk RSL, 48 Main Rd Monbulk yarra-valley-and-the-dandenong-ranges China - Description and Travel China - Social life and customs A travellers guide to China Ill, p.339. ...A travellers guide to ChinaIll, p.339.non-fictionA travellers guide to Chinachina - description and travel, china - social life and customs
