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The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe, Explorer
Author: Emily Caroline Creaghe
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2021-02
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781743056660
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As a sole female member of an exploring party, Creaghe was well acquainted with the privations and harshness of travel in Australia's north. Ahead lay territory unknown to Europeans, as well as many tests of endurance and strength. Her diary is a remarkable document of Australian exploration, written by one of the rarest of explorers - a woman.
The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe, Explorer
Author: Emily Caroline Creaghe
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'We none of us ate any salt meat, or anything that would tend to give us a thirst. We are now on what is called the "Table-land", a flat piece of country on the top of a very high mountain. We are now in unexplored country where no white man has been before, so it is uncertain when we may see water again.' So reads part of the entry in Caroline Creague's diary for Monday 23 April 1883. By that time, as a sole female member of an exploring party, she was already well acquainted with the privations and harshness of travel in Australia's north. Ahead lay territory unknown to Europeans, as well as numerous tests of endurance, strength and courage. Creaghe's diary, published here in full for the first time, is one of the most remarkable documents of Australian exploration, written by one of the rarest of explorers - a woman.
OM78-08 Emily Caroline Creaghe Diary
Author: Emily Caroline Creaghe
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Published: 1883
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The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe
The Explorers
Author: Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780802137197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →" ... the writings of the men and women who traversed, circumnavigated, and settled the continent ..."--Cover.
Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Female Explorers and Adventurers
Author: Danielle Thorne
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company
Published: 2019-12-30
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1620236834
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In “Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Female Explorers and Adventurers,” travel the globe — and history. While it’s fairly common to have women researchers, pilots, and captains in the 21st century, this was not always the case. Exploring and adventuring, even in the name of science and research, were privileged activities reserved solely for men. But some women just couldn’t stay put, even when faced with the harsh resistance of those who favored the norm. These women broke with convention and trekked into the unknown, paving the way for women of today to seek adventure as they see fit. In 1766, Jeanne Baret performed botanical research as she made a complete voyage around the world, making her the first woman ever recorded to do so. Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe from the sky when she flew around the world in a zeppelin prior to World War II. Louise Arner Boyd traveled to the Arctic in 1926 –– a hard journey even in modern times. Now we have women like Sylvia Earle, a world-renowned oceanographer and the first woman to walk on the ocean floor, and Barbara Hillary, the first woman of color to travel to both the North and the South Pole. With this installment in the Hidden in History series, readers can explore for themselves the exciting stories, harrowing adventures, and meaningful research conducted by these daring women. No longer forgotten in the past, the adventurous women of yesterday can once again inspire tomorrow’s explorers to chart their own expeditions into the great unknown.
Twenty to the Mile
Author: Derek Pugh
Publisher: Derek Pugh
Published: 2024-03-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0645737429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The greatest engineering problem facing Australia - the tyranny of distance - had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the sheep-farming colony of South Australia. In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the centre of the continent from Port Augusta to Darwin. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long and using 36,000 poles at '20 to the mile', it was a mammoth undertaking but in October 1872, Adelaide was finally linked to London. The Overland Telegraph Line crossed Aboriginal lands first seen by John McDouall Stuart just 10 years before. Messages which previously took weeks to cross the country now took hours. Passing through eleven new repeater stations and the remotest parts of Australia, the line joined the vast global telegraph network, and a new era was ushered in. Each station held a staff of six. They became centres of white civilization and the cattle or sheep industry and, in many places, the Aborigines were displaced. The unique stories of how men and women lived and/or died on the line range from heroic through desperate to tragic, but they remain an indelible part of Australia's history. '...a book written with heart and determination ... a lasting tribute to the inventiveness and tenacity of the people behind the planning, building and execution of the Overland Telegraph - a true nation building endeavour.' - His Excellency, The Honourable Hieu Van Le, AC.
A Brief History of Australia
Author: Barbara A. West
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0816078858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Basic facts, a chronology, a bibliography, and a list of suggested reading make up the appendixes. --Book Jacket.
Tales of the Austral Tropics
Author: Ernest Favenc
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1920898999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tales of the Austral Tropics (1894) is a collection of short stories published in the Sydney Bulletin in the 1890s. Set in tropical northern Australia, Favenc brings to life the half-unknown and mysterious regions of this part of Australia at this time.
