Author : Patricia Fullerton
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780642107602
Painter, naturalist, writer and explorer, for almost 50 years she travelled to remote parts of Australia, India, Europe, America and New Guinea in pursuit of exotic flowers and wildlife to paint. Over 3000 works testify to her prodigious output. This publication will help establish her rightful place in Australian art.
Author : Christine Morton-Evans
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 064227701X
Ellis Rowan was one of Australia's most accomplished artists and an incredible--if somewhat unexpected--adventurer. During World War I Ellis ventured alone into the tropical jungles of New Guinea in search of all 72 known species of the Bird of Paradise. Not only was she the first white woman to do such a thing, she was also 70 years old. The Flower Hunter is the incredible story of a woman who went to extraordinary lengths to paint her beloved subject matter, journeying to some of the most wild and inhospitable areas of Australia and beyond. On her death in 1922 there was hardly a household in Australia that didn't know her name. Sadly today she is all but forgotten, yet her work lives on in the 970 paintings carefully preserved in the National Library of Australia and in this, the definitive story of Ellis Rowan's remarkable life.
Author : Patrick Buckridge
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780702234682
"By the Book is an indispensable history of the literature of Queensland from its establishment as a separate colony in the mid-nineteenth century through major economic, political and cultural transformations to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Queensland figures in the Australian imagination as a frontier, a place of wild landscapes and wilder politics, but also as Australia's playground, a soft tourist paradise of warm weather and golden beaches. Based partly on real historical divergences from the rest of Australia, these contradictory images have been questioned and scrutini.
Author : New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
Publisher :
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Michael F. Braby
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0642277257
A Flutter of Butterflies is a stunning showcase of butterfly and moth illustrations held by the National Library of Australia. The works span the years from the 1770s, through the early colonial period to the turn of the twenty-first century.As well as containing a plethora of gorgeous colour images, the publication features a fascinating introductory essay about the history of Australian Lepidoptera illustration. In addition to the essay, the book offers biographical essays about the artists represented, among whom are some of Australias most-loved artists, including Louisa Anne Meredith, Marian Ellis Rowan and Charles McCubbin.
Author : Public Library of Brookline
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
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Author : George Seddon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780521843102
We are a nation of gardeners, and we take pleasure in tending our backyards. But this pleasure sits uneasily with our knowledge that the places where most of us live are running out of water. We suspect that our lawns and many of our plants from the damp climates of northern European gardens are too demanding of scarce supplies, but can't imagine our streets and gardens without them. The Old Country opens our eyes, and minds, to other possibilities. It does so by telling us stories about our natural landscape. George Seddon believes that the better we understand the delicacy and beauty of our natural environment, the more 'at home' we will feel as Australians. This passionate, wise and witty book, enriched with breathtakingly beautiful illustrations, suggests that the answers to our water problems lie here, at home.
Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
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Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Bibliography, National
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