Australia & Oceania
epub |eng | 2018-06-19 | Author:Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Cook’s second voyage was underpinned by one thing – ambition. And the thing about ambition is that it’s not at all unusual for it to be frustrated, not to mention ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Diego Olstein [Olstein, Diego]

Table 5.2 Oceanic histories And yet despite this generic name, oceanic histories do not only demand dealing necessarily with an ocean but also with smaller bodies of water, such as ...
( Category: Earth Sciences July 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:John Rae

Provision Station, Kendall River 10th June 1851.290 Sir George Simpson Governor-in-chief, Hudson’s Bay Cos. Territories Sir I have the honour to acquaint you that I with my two men arrived ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania June 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-23 | Author:David Hastings

CHAPTER NINE Where Are You, George? Is he alive somewhere and can he see the sunshine still; or is he dead by now and down in Hades’ Halls? —The Odyssey, ...
( Category: Military June 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gregory Rosenthal

ON THE FARM Sometime between 1868 and 1870, Henry Nahoa left Sacramento to reside in a boardinghouse in the rural town of Vernon, Sutter County, about twenty-five miles north of ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-13 | Author:Andrew P Street

28 1986 You’re the Voice John Farnham In which a washed-up teen idol becomes the biggest-selling Australian artist of all time, and creates an alternative national anthem to boot Given ...
( Category: Music June 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Scott Bennett

Map 5. I Anzac Corps’ Advance on Mouquet Farm, August to September 1916 chapter twelve La Ferme du Mouquet ‘The earth grew nothing, although watered with a rain more precious ...
( Category: Military June 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Robert M. Utley

CHAPTER 18 The Larrikin Years Until a home could be found in Greta, Ellen moved the family into a rundown shanty that served as a makeshift hotel, where her aunts ...
( Category: Historical June 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Peter FitzSimons

( Category: Military May 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-31 | Author:Peter FitzSimons [FITZSIMONS, PETER]

As exhausted as he is, Wills’s thoughts turn guiltily to poor Gray. How many times had they looked askance at his shambling gait, his constant insistence on resting, his slowness ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania May 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-01 | Author:Joan Beaumont,Allison Cadzow

He done four tours in Vietnam. And when he came back, I don’t know if this is the reason behind it, but they were marching in the streets of Sydney ...
( Category: Military May 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-30 | Author:Peter FitzSimons [FitzSimons, Peter]

CHAPTER ELEVEN A DAY OF RECKONING Some of the English divisions had been badly broken and we passed a number of derelicts who regarded us with a sort of unwilling ...
( Category: Military May 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Totman, Conrad;

By Illegal Felling 1,826,783 By Natural Causes 2,010,957 Thus natural damage – mostly due to high winds, heavy snowfall or lightning strikes – ruined less than a third as many ...
( Category: Asia May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:Julia Flynn Siler

Chapter Twelve Crime of the Century, 1893 The House of Kalākaua rose amid violence and conflict. But its fall, on Tuesday, January 17, 1893, was surprisingly swift and almost bloodless. ...
( Category: Americas May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-10 | Author:Delgado, James [Delgado, James]

UNDER CITY STREETS Deep inside the excavation, the backhoe carefully pulls back layers of sand. When the scrape of the huge bucket exposes a dark-stained layer, I raise my hand ...
( Category: Water Sports April 26,2018 )