Alas For The Pelicans
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Author |
: Anne Chittleborough |
Publisher |
: Wakefield Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1862546037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781862546035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alas, for the Pelicans by : Anne Chittleborough
In 1802 a Frenchman and an Englishman famously encountered each other off the shores of South Australia. The voyages of discovery of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders opened the way for the increasingly rapid colonisation of 'Terra Australis'.
Author |
: Barbara Allen |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2019-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789141177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789141176 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pelican by : Barbara Allen
With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill, and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But as Barbara Allen reveals, this graceful skimmer of ocean waves has a checkered history. Originally classed as “unclean” in the King James Bible, the legend of the compassionate pelican was later appropriated by Christianity to symbolize Christ’s sacrifice. This majestic bird, gifted to British royalty in 1664, has been celebrated in art and literature, from Shakespeare’s King Lear to the writing of Edward Lear, and is the holder of three Guinness World Records. The pelican’s anatomy has been copied for paper plane construction, aircraft design, and in 3D imaging, and its resilience is as remarkable as its make-up: the pelican has rallied against threats of extinction, habitat destruction, and environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A must-read book for all bird enthusiasts, Barbara Allen’s Pelican weaves together wildlife trivia, historical tales, and the latest research to provide an engaging, many-feathered account of this emblematic bird.
Author |
: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000055409735 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings by : Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch
Author |
: John Foster |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 1858 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044086803939 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fosteriana, Consisting of Thoughts, Reflections, and Criticisms, of John Foster by : John Foster
Author |
: Richard Lansdown |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2017-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004356856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004356851 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literature and Truth by : Richard Lansdown
In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown continues a discussion concerning the truth-bearing status of imaginative literature that pre-dates Plato. The book opens with a general survey of contemporary approaches in philosophical aesthetics, and a discussion of the contribution to the question made by British philosopher R. G. Collingwood in particular, in his Speculum Mentis. It then offers six case-studies from the Romantic era to the contemporary one as to how imaginative authors have variously dealt with bodies of discursive thought such as Stoicism, Christianity, evolution, humanism, and socialism. It concludes with a reading going in the other direction, in which the diary of Bronislaw Malinowski is seen in terms of the anthropologist’s reading habits during his legendary Trobriander fieldwork.
Author |
: Ernest Scott |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 613 |
Release |
: 2011-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108040617 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108040616 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. by : Ernest Scott
This 1914 biography, based on thorough archival research, vividly describes the eventful life of the first navigator to circumnavigate Australia.
Author |
: Ernest Scott |
Publisher |
: Publio Kiadó Kft. |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789633971536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9633971535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Captain Matthew by : Ernest Scott
Matthew Flinders was the third of the triad of great English sailors by whom the principal part of Australia was revealed. A poet of our own time, in a line of singular felicity, has described it as the "last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space; "* (* Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward, 1903.) and the piecemeal, partly mysterious, largely accidental dragging from the depths of the unknown of a land so immense and bountiful makes a romantic chapter in geographical history. All the great seafaring peoples contributed something towards the result. The Dutch especially evinced their enterprise in the pursuit of precise information about the southern Terra Incognita, and the nineteenth century was well within its second quarter before the name New Holland, which for over a hundred years had borne testimony to their adventurous pioneering, gave place in general and geographical literature to the more convenient and euphonious designation suggested by Flinders himself, Australia.* (* Not universally, however, even in official documents. In the Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, dated May 1, 1849, "New Holland" is used to designate the continent, but "Australia" is employed as including both the continent and Tasmania. See Grey's Colonial Policy 1 424 and 439.)
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 1827 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015030098704 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Eclectic Review by :
Author |
: Ernest Scott |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 665 |
Release |
: 2023-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783368364762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3368364766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by : Ernest Scott
Reproduction of the original.
Author |
: John Foster |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 620 |
Release |
: 1858 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030810132 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fosteriana by : John Foster