Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Horace Street Green
In Horace Street Green, award-winning historian and biographer Edward Duyker shifts his gaze to his own childhood and youth. Born in 1955, to a Dutch father and a Mauritian mother, he grew up the eldest of eight children in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, now decidedly affluent, but once home to many struggling working-class families. The author recalls a time when the trauma of war was still raw, immigrants forged new lives in a strange land, and religious orders sought to control every aspect of life, yet wantonly concealed abuse by their own ranks. This is a book about the vulnerabilities, puzzles and formative influences of childhood. It is autobiographical writing fortified by the historian's craft, a narrative that is frequently surprising, touching and humorous. Autobiography, Memoir, Local History. Duyker, Edward, 1955- .| Malvern (Vic.) - History.| Dutch - Victoria - History. |Mauritians - Victoria - History.| St Joseph's Church - (Malvern, Vic.) - History.| St Joseph's School - (Malvern, Vic.) - History.| De La Salle College - (Malvern, Vic.) -History.|Child Sexual Abuse - Australia.| Catholic Schools -Victoria - Melbourne.
Citizen Labillardière
From the cloisters of Normandy and the pillaged libraries of Italy to the Sea of Galilee and the frozen passes of the Alps, this history chronicles the overlap of science, survival, and writing in the life of Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière, an 18th-century traveler and naturalist. Most famous for his international bestseller Relation, which helped usher the southern continent into the European imagination, Labillardière also authored flora manuals such as Novae Hollandiae. This comprehensive study offers archival notes, personal correspondence, and observations about Labillardière's impact on modern society.
Beyond the Dunes
Herman Edward Duyker was born in 1927 in Schaesberg, Limburg and grew up in Beverwijk, Holland. He immigrated to Australia in 1950 where he married Maryse Commins. He was the son of Adrian Duikers and Maria Louisa Lempers. Duyker line is traced backto Christiaan Barendsz Duiker (1751-1813) of Wieringen, Netherlands.
An Officer of the Blue
French explorer Marion Dufresne was the man who reached Tasmania before the English. His expedition was the first to encounter the Tasmanian Aborigines and was a precursor of the great voyages of La Perouse, d'Entrecasteaux, Baudin and d'Urville. France was not idle in her search for the Southland at the time of James Cook's great expeditions. It is puzzling that Marion's name is absent not only from Australian but also from French reference works. His life of high adventure demands description--early success as a Breton corsair, a crucial part in the daring rescue from Scotland of Bonnie Prince Charlie, numerous voyages to the East, entrepreneurial boldness, discovery of the most westerly islands in the Indian Ocean and an early visit to New Zealand. He was surely one of the most colorful characters in our maritime history, and his story is told here with verve and skill.
Dumont D’Urville
Explorer Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was an erudite polymath: a maritime explorer fascinated by botany, entomology, ethnography and the diverse languages of the world. As a young ensign he was decorated for his pivotal part in France's acquisition of the famous Vénus de Milo. D'Urville's voyages and writings meshed with an emergent French colonial impulse in the Pacific. In this magnificent biography Edward Duyker reveals that D'Urville had secret orders to search for the site for a potential French penal colony in Aus...
A Woman On The Goldfields
Emily Skinner—vibrant, observant, eternally young-at-heart—emigrated from Britain to Australia in 1854. Not only did she keep a ship-board journal, she later recorded her reminiscences of a colourful life as a miner’s wife. Here, published for the first time, is Emily’s account of a voyage half-way around the word to marry her sweetheart. She evokes wild storms, sea sickness, the malaise and boredom, the gossip and intrigue. Her impressions of the young town of Melbourne follow, as well as her recollections of what is now the town of Beechworth and the surrounding goldfields. Emily reaches across the years with her vivid descriptions contrasting the realities in her workday life—cooking, washing, childminding—with the wild dreams and aspirations of the miners. This personable account speaks to every reader as a refreshing and energetic story of a pioneering life which was tough and rigorous but always embraced.
Francois Peron
Presents a balanced assessment of the difficult relationship between Peron and Baudin, and analyses the conduct of science during some of the most turbulent years in French history.
Mauritian Heritage
"Lionnet/Commins...is a convenient familial term to describe the descendants of four married couples: Harold Commins and May Lionnet; George Commins and Madeleine Lionnet; Richard Lionnet and Annie Commins; and Félix Lionnet and Raymonde Commins." These couples came from Mauritius to Australia around 1947. They soon became the largest group of Mauritians in Melbourne. Includes ancestors and descendants of these families.
Bruny D'Entrecasteaux
In 1791, Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed from France to search for his compatriot, the explorer La Perouse. Although d'Entrecasteaux failed to discover the fate of La Perouse, his voyage had many achievements. It also yielded significant natural history collections and ethnographic observations in both Australia and the Pacific.
Voyage to Australia & the Pacific, 1791-1793
This text is a translation into English of the transcription of Bruni D'Entrecasteaux's journal from his 1791 voyage to Australia. It describes the geographical discoveries such as the Derwent estuary, the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Esperance Bay and the Archipelago of the Recherche.
