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Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : 0859676315
Augustus Earle (1793–1838) was born to travel and to paint. Living in the era before photography, Earle was one of the world’s most irrepressible travel artists. His paintings are valuable both as works of art and as documentary records of historic and ethnographic significance. This publication gives an overview of some of Earle’s most significant works held by the National Library of Australia.
Author : Lloyd Spencer Davis
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1775530795
An award-winning zoologist travels in Charles Darwin's footsteps, and in search of the meaning of life. In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, zoologist Lloyd Spencer Davis comes face to face with an enraged leopard seal. Towering ice cliffs, a ferocious creature of the deep, and the extreme Antarctic environment all turn Davis's world view on its head. 'What the hell am I doing here?' This question sets Davis on a quest for insight and meaning in a world that still pitches theories of evolution against belief in a Creator; the science of natural selection against a faith that asserts our world was crafted by Intelligent Design. With a self-deprecating grin packed along with his cabin baggage - even when his passport isn't - Davis decides to follow the travels of the eminent nineteenth-century naturalist, Charles Darwin: the man who did more to change our understanding of this planet than any other biologist. Looking for Darwin gives us a personal and intimate insight into Darwin and what drove the man. It is also an attempt to resolve that initially panicked — and then far-reaching — question, that first hit Davis on the big ice. With a wealth of research and vivid imagery — along with a disarming honesty —Lloyd Spencer Davis takes the reader on an unforgettable world tour.
Author : Earle E. Cairns
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2009-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310829305
The third edition of Christianity Through the Centuries brings the reader up-to-date by discussing events and developments in the church into the 1990s. This edition has been redesigned with new typography and greatly improved graphics to increase clarity, accessibility, and usefulness. - New chapters examine recent trends and developments (expanding the last section from 2 chapters to 5) - New photos. Over 100 photos in all -- more than twice the number in the previous edition - Single-column format for greater readability and a contemporary look - Improved maps (21) and charts (39) Building on the features that have made Christianity Through the Centuries an indispensable text, the author not only explains the development of doctrines, movements, and institutions, but also gives attention to "the impact of Christianity on its times and to the mark of the times on Christianity."
Author : Richard Darwin Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521338557
Originally published in 1979, this volume gathers together an account of the voyage of HMS Beagle round the world in 1831-6.
Author : F. W. Nicholas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2002-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521017022
Early in 1836 Charles Darwin spent two months in Australia as part of his voyage around the world on the Beagle. During this time he visited the town of Sydney, travelled on horseback across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst, visited Hobart in Tasmania, and called into King George Sound in Western Australia. Darwin met with several of the leading figures of the Australian colonies, including members of the King and Macarthur families in Sydney, and Alfred Stephen and George Frankland in Hobart.
Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1849048398
Ochre and Rust offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curiosity between collectors and those indigenous people who piqued or responded to their interest. While colonialism is the broad frame, details gleaned from archives, images and the objects themselves reveal a new picture of interaction between individual Aboriginal people and European collectors. Philip Jones explores and makes sense of particular historical moments in colonial history, when Aboriginal people perceived and expected other, more elusive outcomes. Ochre and Rust, an elegantly written challenge to received wisdom about the colonial frontier, has won Australia's inaugural Prime Minister's Award for Literary Non-Fiction.
Author : Judith Binney
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1877242330
Thomas Kendall was sent as a missionary to New Zealand in 1814 to civilize and convert the 'heathens', but was himself almost converted to the ideas of those whom he had come to save. Judith Binney's fascinating account of his life has been updated with an introduction that provides a contemporary perspective.
Author : Martin Edward Thomas
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780522851519
Martin Thomas takes the reader on a journey through a compelling study of culture, landscape and mythology. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination. The author evokes this dramatic and bewildering landscape and leads his readers through the cultural history of the locality in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'.
Author : Julie F. Codell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429761643
First published in 1998, this volume reflects that, ever since the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism twenty years ago, scholars have tested his thesis against the wider application of his terms to cultural practices and the rhetoric of power. The cultural impact of the British on their colonies has been extensively investigated but only recently have scholars begun to ask in what ways British culture was transformed by its contact with the colonies. The essays in this volume demonstrate how influential the Empire was on British culture from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. They show how, from cross-cultural cross-dressing to Buddhism, British artists and writers appropriated unfamiliar and challenging aspects of the culture of the Empire for their own purposes. An examination is also made of the extent to which colonized people engaged in the orientalising discourse, amending and subverting it, even re-applying its stereotypes to the British themselves. Finally, two essays explore instances of the exchange of ideas between colonies. Several of the essays are based on papers given at the 1996 Conference of the College Arts Association.
Author : William Dunlap
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1834
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