Narrative Of Some Passages In The History Of Van Diemens Land
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Author | : James Fenton |
Publisher | : Hobart, Tasmania : J. Walch and Sons |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Tasmania |
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James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.
Author | : Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 996 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Anthony Brandt |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307276562 |
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions. Enthralling and often harrowing, The Man Who Ate His Boots captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise.
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Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 468 |
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Author | : John West |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2011-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108030793 |
A history of Tasmania by an English-born minister who fought to end its status as a penal colony.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Author | : M. Larkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Australasia |
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Author | : Ronald Max Hartwell |
Publisher | : Carlton, Melbourne U. P |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Tasmania |
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Author | : Andrew D. Lambert |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300154860 |
From one of our foremost naval historians, the compelling story of the doomed Arctic voyage of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, commanded by Captain Sir John Franklin. Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand books. Despite these preparations, the voyage ended in catastrophe: the ships became imprisoned in the ice, and the men were wracked by disease and ultimately wiped out by hypothermia, scurvy, and cannibalism. Franklin's mission was ostensibly to find the elusive North West Passage, a viable sea route between Europe and Asia reputed to lie north of the American continent. Lambert shows for the first time that there were other scientific goals for the voyage and that the disaster can only be understood by reconsidering the original objectives of the mission. Franklin, commonly dismissed as a bumbling fool, emerges as a more important and impressive figure, in fact, a hero of navigational science.
Author | : John West |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Tasmanians |
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Author's copy. Printed, with MS. corrections and annotations by the author. Handwriting identical with that in a letter from West to Edward Wise, 5 June 1864 in ML MSS. 1327/3, pp. 315-317. 1. pp. 209-340 are missing, with blank pages inserted at the back used for annotations. 2. identical with other copies of the volume.