Under the Southern Cross

Under the Southern Cross
Author: Claire McNab
Publisher: Bella Books
Total Pages: 187
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164247018X

The vast, forbidding Australian Outback… the grandeur of Ayers Rock… legendary Alice Springs… the Great Barrier Reef… the primal beauty of Cape Tribulation… Two women, from different continents, with different values, collide with spectacular results… UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS. American Lee Paynter has built her Small travel agency into an international tour company. Brash, confident, openly lesbian, her great love is her business. Women? They’re to enjoy and let go. Alexandra Findlay is pursuing a career in Australian tourism with quiet focus and determination, convinced that her career is the best she can hope for in her arid, closeted emotional existence. Now Alex has been assigned to accompany Lee on the American woman’s visit Down Under, to win Lee’s company over to Australian tourism. Suddenly Alex’s quiet life explodes… And Lee is challenged by a woman unlike any she has ever known.

Under the Southern Cross

Under the Southern Cross
Author: Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2024-01-23
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

"Embark on a thrilling adventure through the Southern Hemisphere with Maturin Murray Ballou in 'Under the Southern Cross.' Penned in the 19th century, this travel narrative is a captivating account of Ballou's exploration of the exotic landscapes, cultures, and wonders found beneath the Southern Cross. As Ballou journeys through South America, Australia, and the islands of the South Pacific, he unfolds tales of diverse civilizations, natural marvels, and the unique allure of the Southern Hemisphere. 'Under the Southern Cross' is more than a travelogue; it's a vivid exploration of the uncharted territories and hidden gems of the southern part of the globe. Join Ballou on this literary expedition where each page unveils a new chapter of discovery, making 'Under the Southern Cross' an essential read for those captivated by tales of Southern Hemisphere exploration and the timeless mystique of faraway lands."

Warship under Sail

Warship under Sail
Author: Lorraine McConaghy
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0295800437

Ordered to join the Pacific Squadron in 1854, the sloop of war Decatur sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Strait of Magellan to Valparaiso, Honolulu, and Puget Sound, then on to San Francisco, Panama, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, while serving in the Pacific until 1859, the eve of the Civil War. Historian Lorraine McConaghy presents the ship, its officers, and its crew in a vigorous, keenly rendered case study that illuminates the forces shaping America's antebellum navy and foreign policy in the Pacific, from Vancouver Island to Tierra del Fuego. One of only five ships in the squadron, the Decatur participated in numerous imperial adventures in the Far West, enforcing treaties, fighting Indians, suppressing vigilantes, and protecting commerce. With its graceful lines and towering white canvas sails, the ship patrolled the sandy border between ocean and land. Warship under Sail focuses on four episodes in the Decatur's Pacific Squadron mission: the harrowing journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan; a Seattle war story that contested American treaties and settlements; participation with other squadron ships on a U.S. State Department mission to Nicaragua; and more than a year spent anchored off Panama as a hospital ship. In a period of five years, more than 300 men lived aboard ship, leaving a rich record of logbooks, medical and punishment records, correspondence, personal journals, and drawings. Lorraine McConaghy has mined these records to offer a compelling social history of a warship under sail. Her research adds immeasurably to our understanding of the lives of ordinary men at sea and American expansionism in the antebellum Pacific West.

Templars under the Southern Cross

Templars under the Southern Cross
Author: Oscar Luis Rigiroli
Publisher: Oscar Luis Rigiroli
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2019-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When King Henry of France and Pope Innocent decreed in the early fourteenth century the end of the Order of the Temple and burned alive their main leaders, they could not achieve one of their main objectives: to seize the treasure of the Order. It was shipped surreptitiously in the port of La Rochelle to the coast of Scotland, and from there it began a long journey throughout centuries, which led part of the treasure to the beaches of South America. A child finds in the Patagonian beaches some strange stones carved with text fragments written in Latin and a cross of eight points. This triggers the action in the present, when the child´s family members, including a Mexican archaeologist of Maya ancestry and her husband analyze the stones. Realizing the Templar origin of the inscriptions, it begins an arduous quest to uncover the fate of the treasure. First contact is a Swiss anthropologist living in the city of Bariloche, in a region of lakes of the Argentine Patagonia. One of their surprising findings is that there are still descendants of the Templars forming a millenarian brotherhood advocated by the values ​​of their ancestors, based in remote areas of the Andean-Patagonian forests. Thither are headed the scientist in a research expedition. Their departure is detected however by a group of large-scale predators of cultural, artistic and archaeological treasures acting internationally, led by a mysterious former KGB colonel. They send a powerful armed group in the footsteps of the explorers. Scientists make contact with members of the brotherhood, jealous care of their heritage, that includes not only material goods but one of Christianity's holiest objects according to the medieval conception. Guided by the archaeologist, equipped with a special sensitivity for the detection of arcane, searchers are directed to a point inaccessible forest, in their search of the treasure .It is in those places where bursts a bloody conflict between the warring factions.

Discovery Under the Southern Cross

Discovery Under the Southern Cross
Author: Roslyn Poignant
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1976
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Traces the discovery and exploration of the islands and continents of the South Pacific.