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Batavia Shores
Author | : Ken F Stewart |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2014-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781499011357 |
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Batavia s Graveyard
Author | : Mike Dash |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2003-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780609807163 |
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In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly. The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches. The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java—some 1,500 miles north—to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, and the nightmare was only beginning.
The Beach
Author | : Robert Drewe |
Publsiher | : National Library of Australia |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2015-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780642278807 |
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Robert Drewe, internationally acclaimed writer, writes here about the quintessential Australian experience. Drewe looks at the sunny, salty sexiness of the beach that first enticed the crusading Mr William Gocher into the ocean at Manly in 1903, defying authorities in his neck-to-knee bathing costume. We’ve come a long way from sunbathing in stockings and pantaloons to the unabashed display of sun-kissed bodies of all shapes and sizes at any beach in the country today. But the beach also has a dark side as a place of tragedy, violence and danger, a place where sharks attack prone surfers and prime ministers disappear. Drewe’s lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia’s most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes―a favourite boat, a capsicum-strewn beach, a summer holiday with teenagers and an unwelcome great white. This is a book for Australians dreaming of the beach―that is, those of us not there right now.
In a Sunburned Country
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publsiher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780385674539 |
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Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous, In a Sunburned Country takes us on a grand tour of Australia. It's a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister lost — yes, lost — while swimming at sea, to Japanese cult members who may (entirely unnoticed) have set off an atomic bomb on their 500,000 acre property in the great western desert. Australia is the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country. Its aboriginal people, a remote and mysterious race with a tragic history, have made it their home for millennia. And despite the fact that it is the most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all inhabited continents, it teems with life. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else: sharks, crocodiles, the planet's ten most deadly poisonous snakes, fluffy yet toxic caterpillars, sea shells that actually attack you, and the unbelievable box jellyfish (don't ask). The dangerous riptides of the sea and the sun-baked wastes of the outback both lie in wait for the unwary. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide. In a Sunburned Country offers the best of all possible introductions to what may well be the best of all possible nations. Even with those jellyfish.
The Savage Shore
Author | : Graham Seal |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300220414 |
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Originial edition has subtitle: extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery to Australia.
The Australia Directory The East Coast Torres Strait and Coral Sea
Author | : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Pilot guides |
ISBN | : UOM:39015073415757 |
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Eastern Archipelago Including the south east end of Sumatra Java islands east of Java south and east coasts of Borneo and C lebes Island 4th ed
Author | : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Pilot guides |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058588925 |
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The India Directory for the Guidance of Commanders of Steamers and Sailing Vessels
Author | : James Horsburgh (F.R.S.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V001508059 |
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