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Author | : Stephen Gapps |
Publisher | : NewSouth |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781742236711 |
'In May 1824, what can only be described as a period of all-out, total gudyarra ('war' in the Wiradyuri language) had begun west of the Blue Mountains. Relations between Wiradyuri people and the colonists in the country around Bathurst had completely broken down, and the number of raids and killings occurring across isolated stock stations in the district had intensified.' In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps - award-winning author of The Sydney Wars - unearths what led to this furious and bloody war, beginning with the occupation of Wiradyuri lands by Europeans following Governor Macquarie's push to expand the colony west over the Blue Mountains to generate wealth from sheep and cattle. Gudyarra traces the co-ordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradyuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the drastic counterattacks by the colonists and the punitive expeditions led by armed parties of colonists and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradyuri women and children, Gapps provides an important new historical account of the fierce Wiradyuri resistance. 'This isn't just a war for Wiradjuri country, this is a war for Australia: the country we are still to be. Our nation begins here.' -- Stan Grant 'The untold story of the Wiradyuri War of resistance against a World Empire' -- Uncle Bill Allen Junior, Wiradyuri Elder 'In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps plots in meticulous detail the brutal war between the British and the Wiradyuri for possession of the Western Plains of New South Wales. A masterly account of both sides of the conflict, Gudyarra offers new understandings of the complexity of frontier history and the need for all Australians to reconcile with the past.' -- Lyndall Ryan 'This is an important book, indeed essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the new direction in the history of the frontier wars.' -- Henry Reynolds
Author | : Bella Bathurst |
Publisher | : HarperPress |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Bicycles |
ISBN | : 9780007305889 |
"You can keep the internet. You can keep the computer and the mobile phone. In the bicycle humanity has its most perfect invention of the last three hundred years and in Bella Bathurst the bike has found the best and brightest booster so far." BORIS JOHNSON
Author | : Colonel Jim Bathurst USMC (Retired) |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2012-12-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1475956940 |
For seventeen-year-old high school dropout Jim Bathurst, the Marine Corps’s reputation for making men out of boys was something he desperately needed when he enlisted in March of 1958. What began as a four-year hitch lasted nearly thirty-six years and included an interesting assortment of duty stations and assignments as both enlisted and officer. We’ll All Die As Marines narrates a story about a young, free-spirited kid from Dundalk, Maryland, and how the Corps captured his body, mind, and spirit. Slowly, but persistently, the Corps transformed him into someone whose first love would forever be the United States Marine Corps. It documents not only his leadership, service, and training but also regales many tales of his fellow Marines that will have the reader laughing, cheering, and at times crying. In this memoir, Bathurst reveals that for him—a former DI who was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V”, Purple Heart, and a combat commission to second lieutenant—the Corps was not a job, a career, or even a profession; it was—and still is—a way of life.
Author | : Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2008-09-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1842329596 |
Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, novelist and poet, remembered for his celebration of British imperialism and heroism in India and Burma. Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). His most popular works include The Jungle Book (1894) and The Just So Stories (1902), a collection of tales about how animals came to be the way they are today, also The Day's Work, a novel (1898). Book jacket.
Author | : Kari Maaren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780993917011 |
In this complete collection of the webcomic West of Bathurst, which ran between 2006 and 2014, Marie Dumont, a graduate student newly arrived in Toronto, takes up residence at U of T's Davies College and finds herself sucked into a strange world in which robes are expected, socialising is mandatory, and everybody puts way too much effort into the annual Murder Game. Struggling to pay at least some attention to her studies as she juggles old ghosts and new friendships, Marie stumbles through a world that is almost ordinary, except perhaps when mythological beings wander the streets of Toronto or objects burst spontaneously into flame. She is accompanied by cynical Rahim, dotty Sherlock Holmes-wannabe Barbara, and devious Casey, who is quite possibly Satan. In the process, Marie tries as hard as any twenty-something graduate student never to grow up. She also consumes a fair number of maple doughnuts, but that's only to be expected.
Author | : Bella Bathurst |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2013-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0544301617 |
An “entertaining” historical investigation into the scavengers who have profited off the spoils of maritime disasters (The Washington Post). Even today, Britain’s coastline remains a dangerous place. It is an island soaked by four separate seas, with shifting sand banks to the east, veiled reefs to the west, powerful currents above, and the world’s busiest shipping channel below. The country’s offshore waters are strewn with shipwrecks—and for villagers scratching out an existence along Britain’s shores, those wrecks have been more than simply an act of God; in many cases, they have been the difference between living well and just getting by. Though Daphne du Maurier and Poldark have made Cornwall famous as Britain’s most notorious region for wrecking, many other coastal communities regarded the “sea’s bounty” as a way of providing themselves with everything from grapefruits to grand pianos. Some plunderers were held to be so skilled that they could strip a ship from stem to stern before the Coast Guard had even left port. Some were rumored to lure ships onto the rocks with false lights, and some simply waited for winter gales to do their work. This book uncovers tales of ships and shipwreck victims—from shoreline orgies so Dionysian that few participants survived the morning to humble homes fitted with silver candelabra, from coastlines rigged like stage sets to villages where everyone owns identical tennis shoes. Spanning three hundred years of history, The Wreckers examines the myths, realities, and superstitions of shipwrecks and uncovers the darker side of life on Britain’s shores. “Bathurst, who won a Somerset Maugham Award for The Lighthouse Stevensons, offers a spellbinding tale of seafaring men, their ships and the ocean that cares for neither.” —Publishers Weekly “A fascinating, haunting account of pillagers, plunderers, and pirates.” —John Burnett, author of Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
Author | : Bella Bathurst |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011-06-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0062094742 |
For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and prevented countless ships from being lost at sea. While it is the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson that brought fame to the family name, this mesmerizing account shows how his extraordinary ancestors changed the shape of the Scotland coast against incredible odds and with remarkable technical ingenuity.
Author | : Richard Craill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-08-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780648786306 |
FOR the first time, the ultimate history of the Bathurst 12 Hour is being published to mark 10 years of the event catering to exotic GT3 sports cars, a thrilling era of racing that opened the iconic Mount Panorama circuit to the world's most revered and prestigious automotive brands.Never-before-attempted, this 320-page, hardcover, limited edition collector's book edited by long-time voice of the race Richard Craill and published by Aaron Noonan's AN1 Media organisation, will chart the event's rise in global esteem and importance across the last decade, with reflections from key players, winners and influencers throughout the period.Illustrated by over 500 stunning photos, this book will also feature a photo of every car to have competed in the Bathurst 12 Hour from 2011 through to 2020 including non-starting and non-qualifier cars.'Bathurst: Going Global - 10 Years of Australia's International Enduro 2011-2020' book features: * Rare and never-before-published photos of Bathurst 12 Hour race and practice cars from 2011 to 2020, headlined by the exotic, outright class entries including machines produced by Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Ferrari, Honda, Lamborghini, McLaren, Mercedes-AMG, Nissan and Porsche.* Driver names, team names, model details, race time/laps completed, qualifying times and grid positions and miscellaneous notes relating to each car.* A dedicated chapter on each race, recapping the events from that year's running plus its wider context in the growth of the race.* A comprehensive list of results from each running of the Bathurst 12 Hour from 2011 to 2020.* All of the iconic cars, teams and drivers to compete in the GT3 era of the Bathurst 12 Hour.This book is a must-have for the collection of any Bathurst, motorsport, motoring or automotive enthusiast.
Author | : Valerie Shaw |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-07-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317872789 |
Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.
Author | : Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Manners and customs |
ISBN | : 9780192822178 |