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History of the Speedway Hoskins
Speedway enthusiasts are sure to find this an informative read and even readers who don't know much about this hair-raising sport are in for an entertaining treat. In 1923 Johnnie Hoskins pioneered the hair-raising sport of Speedway in New South Wales, Australia. In those early days this was one of the few businesses one could break into with modest capital. As he discovered, fortunes were made and lost with the trick being to know when to get out of the game. Some fifty years later his services to the sport were officially recognised when he was awarded an MBE. Following in his father's footsteps, Ian Hoskins embarked on a career promoting and creating speedway venues in Scotland, England, Majorca and Zimbabwe. He admits to being broke when he retired from the sport but went on to launch a new career in the entertainment industry. Ian suggests that despite the highs and lows of the sport once the 'cinder bug' bites you are addicted for life.
Sydney Harbour
Sydney Harbour has been a defining feature for the people who have lived around it for millennia: a means of communication, a barrier, a resource to be exploited, a site of commerce and trade, and a place of beauty, spirit and meaning. In this sweeping history of one of the world’s most recognisable landscapes, award-winning historian Ian Hoskins explores the story of this famous waterway, from its importance to the Gameragal and Gadigal people to highly charged contemporary debates about the future of the ‘working harbour’ and the ownership of its foreshores. A beautifully written and compelling book, this new edition of Sydney Harbour surveys the interactions between the glitterin...
Australia & the Pacific
Australia’s deep past and its modern history are intrinsically linked to the Pacific. In Australia & the Pacific, Ian Hoskins — award-winning author of Sydney Harbour and Coast — expands his gaze to examine Australia’s relationship with the Pacific region; from our ties with Papua New Guinea and New Zealand to our complex connections with China, Japan and the United States. This revealing, sweeping narrative history begins with the shifting of the continents to the coming of the first Australians and, thousands of years later, the Europeans who dispossessed them. Hoskins explores colonists’ attempts to exploit the riches of the region while keeping ‘white Australia’ separat...
Coast
From Eden to Byron Bay the New South Wales coast is more than 2000 kilometres long, with 130 estuaries, 100 coastal lakes and a rich history. This, the first history written of the New South Wales coast, traces our relationship with this stretch of land and sea starting millennia ago when Aboriginal people feasted on shellfish and perfected the art of building bark canoes, to our present obsession with the beach as a place to live or holiday. Leading us through the European fascination with marine life, the attempts to establish a whaling industry, the fear of seaborne invasion which led to the creation of a navy of our own in 1911 through to the rise of our unstoppable enthusiasm for surfing and fishing, Ian Hoskins argues that our current enthralment with the coast began more recently than we might think.
Rivers
*Longlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards: Illustrated Non-Fiction* Rivers have long runin the blood of Australians. Givers of life and subjects of anguish, Australian rivershave shaped the nation from the moment the first Australians arrived tens ofthousands of years ago. Offering the vital ingredient for life, they are alsoguardians of culture, a means of transportation, sites for play and leisure,and sources of power--deeply entrenched in almost every aspect of human life andan irreplaceable part of the global ecosystem. Australia's vast inland seas of some 50 million years agohave disappeared, leaving a continent that is mostly desert. Of the waters andwetlands that remain, most of whic...
Fluid Dynamics of the Mid-Latitude Atmosphere
This book gives a coherent development of the current understanding of the fluid dynamics of the middle latitude atmosphere. It is primarily aimed at post-graduate and advanced undergraduate level students and does not assume any previous knowledge of fluid mechanics, meteorology or atmospheric science. The book will be an invaluable resource for any quantitative atmospheric scientist who wishes to increase their understanding of the subject. The importance of the rotation of the Earth and the stable stratification of its atmosphere, with their implications for the balance of larger-scale flows, is highlighted throughout. Clearly structured throughout, the first of three themes deals with th...
Sydney Harbour (16pt Large Print Edition)
A sweeping history of one of the world's most recognised landscapes, Sydney Harbour explores the story of the waterway from the time of the Gameragal and Gadigal to the highly charged contemporary debates about the future of the harbour. The story moves seamlessly as the harbour is taken from its traditional owners and transformed from a penal colony on the outer rim of the European imagination to an international commercial hub. A beautifully written book, Sydney Harbour lays out the interaction between the glittering harbour and the people who fish it, sail on it, build at the edges of it, fight for it, portray it and marvel at it.
Middlemarsh: The Hopkins River, Kindred Wetlands and Remarkable People
“One book leads to another; one book grows out of another; one book flows out of others. Flowing is a fitting figure for a book about a river, creeks, wetlands and water. The present volume grew out of a brief discussion of two paintings of wetlands in mid-western Victoria by the nineteenth-century colonial landscape painter Eugene von Guérard. This discussion was part of a chapter on wetlands in Australian painting and photography (Giblett 2020a). It was included in John Ryan’s and Li Chen’s edited collection Australian Wetland Cultures (Ryan and Chen, eds 2020). I also contributed a chapter to this volume on Aboriginal wetland cultures, their sacral water beings and their refraction...
