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The intriguing cultural history of the piano in Australia From the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia’s intimate and intrepid relationship with the piano. It charts the piano’s fascinating adventures across Australia – on the goldfields, at the frontlines of war, in the manufacturing hubs of the Federation era, and in the hands of the makers, entrepreneurs, teachers and virtuosos of the twentieth history – to illuminate the many worlds in which the ivories were tinkled. Before electricity broug...
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"Learn about our own continent in this simple introduction for middle - upper primary students to the geographical perspective of continents. You will find out: Australias borders, physical features, climate, plants and animals how it developed and its early civilisations its statesAustraliais part of a series providing a simple geographic definition of what a continent is. Special features include: maps, including projection, physical and political regional charts to be read with
The first five plays in this volume deal with Norman Beim's family and the Sixth play deals with a subject that continues to haunt him, as well as the world at large, the fate of the European Jews during world war II.
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