The Eastern Seas

The Eastern Seas
Author: George Windsor Earl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1837
Genre: Dutch East Indies
ISBN:

Appendices incl. observations on Australia and on Aborigines; p.436; About 1000 Bugis from Macassar collect trapang in northern Australia annually; p.442-446; Settlements at Melville Island, 1824 and Raffles Bay, 1827 - subsequent abondonment, clashes with Aborigines; Desirability of northern settlement; reasons against making Port Essington a penal establishment; p.454-456; Views of the Aborigines of the Wellington Valley, N.S.W., about the inland sea quoted from Dr. Henderson and W.H. Breton; similar views of Swan River Aborigines, information from Mr. Moore.

Conrad's Eastern World

Conrad's Eastern World
Author: Norman Sherry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1966
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521291200

A book for those interested in Conrad's life and work and/or literary detection convincingly performed. Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he garnered there was supplemented from other sources; he also shows what Conrad made of his experiences, thus revealing clearly what the artist's own contribution was.

Seaways and Gatekeepers

Seaways and Gatekeepers
Author: Heather Sutherland
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9789813251229