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The Tamar Opportunists
The Mahogany Ship legend is questioned by the authors: why are the elements of the Foundation story inconsistent and improbable? Why are the recollections of the dozen people who offered their testimony about the supposed wreck so conflicted? Linked with this story, whaling at Griffiths Island at Port Fairy was undertaken by speculators from Launceston in 1836. John Griffiths and Michael Connolly established the whaling station and also commenced farming on the hinterland, but overreach and the 1840s economic collapse brought them both to insolvency. Alexander Campbell, John Cox and Walter Chiene are the other adventurers whose exploits are detailed in this story of the first entrepreneurs at Port Fairy
The French Consul's Wife
'What a subject for a film, but not, please, Meryl Streep ... Together with Dr Patricia Clancy (Melbourne University) and Jeanne Allen's (La Trobe University) elegant translation and able notes, the memoirs make for a piquant, informative, variegated and often startling read ... Miegunyah Press you've done it again.' (Derek Whitelock, Weekend Australian) A former Parisian courtesan, circus performer and dancer, C leste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne society when she arrived in 1854 as the wife of the French Consul. These memoirs give a vivid firsthand account of the two-and-a-half years she spent in gold-rush Victoria. C leste's arrival in Melbourne was preceded by the publication of he...
People on the Move
While most people in the world are descendants of migrants, not everyone is conscious of the migration patterns of their ancestors. The goals and motives for moving or staying are changing, diverse, and often difficult to specify. As a result of 19th-century residentialist social and political theories, many scholars generally assume that migration is a pattern of behavior that deviates from the norm and requires a specific motive or reason. This study details the variety of changing historical patterns of migrant behavior by examining migration patterns over 1500 years in Europe and Southeast Asia. Kleinschmidt researches migrants and describes how they viewed themselves. He also includes a...
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National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Current Catalog
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
