epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Bee Dawson [Madge Snow]

The sheep were sent into the shower dip after shearing. Shearing was a busy time for everyone, but especially so for the cook. We didn’t have a cookshop during those ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ellen Clacy [Clacy, Ellen]

Chapter X. FOREST CREEK In my last chapter we were left standing not far from the Commissioners' tent, Forest Creek, at about three o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Pascoe

Maree Well PHOTOGRAPH LYN HARWOOD Stone was also used to construct hides from which to hunt animals and birds, and as protection for sacred items. Ovens and grain stores were ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:David Kemp [Kemp, David]

If Griffith had expressed himself unwisely before, he wanted to make clear that he did not believe there was an inherent conflict of interest in the industrial system. Indeed, he ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Thomas James Rogers [James Rogers, Thomas]

The lawyers and their questions Joseph Tice Gellibrand was a solicitor in London for six years before applying to Earl Bathurst, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for the ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Ian Watson

I still haven’t written a story called “Down the Mine”; but here is one of the stories which spilled out like lava, and became the starting point for a novel, ...

epub |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:Bruce Chatwin [Bruce Chatwin]

29 TITUS TJILKAMATA, THE man Arkady had come to see, lived about twenty-five miles south-west of Cullen settlement, in a shanty beside a soakage. Apparently he was in such a ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Michael King

[1] As a result of this law, New Zealand was indeed for some years a ‘land without strikes’. See page 308. [2] As far as conditions in Auckland were concerned, ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Thomas Keneally [Keneally, Thomas]

CHAPTER 14 * ARRIVING AT THE END OF THINGS A convict arriving in Sydney or Hobart in the early to mid 1830s encountered prosperous-looking communities where women and men of ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Thomas Keneally [Keneally, Thomas]

The Australian colonies cherished Britishness to the extent that in South Australia in 1856, legislation had been passed to exclude non-British settlers and naturalised aliens from membership of the legislature. ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Thomas Keneally [Keneally, Thomas]

eighteen PHILLIP, IF SOMETIMES SEEN even by the convicts as well as by later imaginations of Australians as more an iconic than fully human figure, was reduced by gritty daily ...

mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman

After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Robert Hughes

The Irish were the largest and most cohesive white minority in penal Australia, and their folkways were bound to make a deep mark on the ethos of all convicts and ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Thomas Keneally

eighteen PHILLIP, IF SOMETIMES SEEN even by the convicts as well as by later imaginations of Australians as more an iconic than fully human figure, was reduced by gritty daily ...

mobi, epub | | 2001-06-11 | Author:Bill Bryson

WHAT HE HAD FOR US THE NEXT DAY was a place called Alpine National Park, and in fact it was even better. Covering 2,500 square miles of eastern Victoria, it ...