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| Author | : Mark Byrne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2016-09-23 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1443816531 |
What is it about the Australian outback? For nearly two centuries, narratives of outback journeys have been suffused with the aura of death. Why? It is not just that the desert is big, dry, hot and apparently empty. The outback is Australia’s “mythological crucible,” and journeys there have become rites of passage. It is where settler Australians go to die and perhaps be reborn. This book explores the landscape of this evolving national mythology. It argues that a more conscious engagement with the process of symbolic death and rebirth is needed for Australians to enter into a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationship to the land and its Indigenous people.
| Author | : Aaron Fletcher |
| Publisher | : Love Spell |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : 9780843946864 |
The tempestuous saga of AUtralia and the pioneers who risked everything to tame a continent.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-10-21 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781454912941 |
At once the story of a twenty-seven-year-old Australian woman who sets off to cross the desolute Western Australia desert with her camels and dog; a fascinating pictorial journal by photographer Rick Smolan, taken while photographing her journey; and an inside look at the images and screenplay of the extraordinary movie based on the now-famous trek.
| Author | : Jerome Beatty |
| Publisher | : Avon Books |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Extraterrestrial beings |
| ISBN | : 9780380008476 |
Because of tense conditions between moonsters and earthlings, moon man Looney is sent to establish a peaceful colony on a new planet. Sidetracked to Earth, he discovers that a bomb will soon destroy the world and decides to try to prevent the holocaust.
| Author | : Tony Kelly |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2020-03-03 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0702262323 |
When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While Rebecca deals with her mother's declining health and delves into her own past, Tony takes on a new role in native title law.However, caring for Diana &– a witty, crossword-loving 92-year-old &– proves to be a more enriching experience than either Tony or Rebecca thought possible. As they make deeper connections to the land and community, they find themselves flourishing in a most unexpected place. Growing Pineapples in the Outback explores the highs and lows of caring for an ageing parent, while also celebrating the rewards of a simpler life.
| Author | : Rachael Johns |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2013-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1743644701 |
Faith and Monty are both looking for love...in the wrong direction. Faith Forrester is at a crossroads. Single, thirty and living on a farm in a small Western Australian town, she's sick of being treated like a servant by her brother and father. Ten years ago, her mother died of breast cancer, and Faith has been treading water ever since. She wants to get her hands dirty on the family farm. She wants to prove to herself that she's done something worthwhile with her life. And she wants to find a man... For as long as he can remember, Daniel 'Monty' Montgomery has been Faith's best friend. When he was ten, his parents sold the family property in Merindah and moved to Perth to be closer to support services for his autistic brother, and ever since, Monty's dreamed of having his own place. So for the last ten years, he's been back on the land, working odd jobs and saving every dollar to put toward his dream. And now he finally has it. But there's still something missing... So when Faith embarks on a mission to raise money for a charity close to her heart – Dogs for Autism – and Monty's dream property comes on the market, things seem like they are falling into place for them both. Until a drunken night out ends with them sleeping together. Suddenly, the best friends are both facing a new set of challenges... Monty and Faith are both ready to find a life partner and settle down, but have they both been looking in all the wrong places?
| Author | : Robyn Davidson |
| Publisher | : Addison Wesley Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : |
Presents the story of an Australian woman who set off to cross the outback, accompanied only by 4 camels and a dog. Photo CD contains photographs and narration. Apple CD contains an interactive program for the user to join the trip.
| Author | : K. Crane |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2012-10-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137000791 |
The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies.
| Author | : Robin Stevenson |
| Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2011-03-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1554699673 |
Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school-and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Once he arrives, he discovers Mel is obsessed with finding a new species of lizard and is determined to be the first to discover it. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback...with the increasingly paranoid Mel and an unfriendly biology student named Natalie. Then disaster strikes, and Jayden and Nat find themselves many miles from civilization fighting for their survival. Also available in Spanish.
| Author | : Alistair Rolls |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2019-04-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1351666320 |
This book explores the intersection of a number of academic areas of study that are all, individually, of growing importance: translation studies, crime fiction and world literature. The scholars included here are leaders in one or more of these areas. The frame of this volume is imagological; its focus is on the ways in which national allegories are constructed and deconstructed, encompassing descriptions of national characteristics as they play out at the level of the local or the individual as well as broader, political analyses. Its corpus, crime fiction, is shown to be a privileged site for writing the national narrative, and often in ways that are more complex and dynamic than is suggested by the genre’s much-cited role as vehicle for a new realism. Finally, these two areas are problematised through the lens of translation, which is a crucial player in both the development of crime fiction and the formation, rather than simply the interlingual transfer, of national allegory. In this volume national allegories, and the crime novels in which they emerge, are shown to be eminently versatile, foundationally plural texts that promote critical rewriting as opposed to sites for fixing meaning. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Translator.
