Author: Will Parker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503502740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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An Eventful Life is a social history describing the life of a boy who maybe never grew up. The story begins in Will Parker’s childhood as he accompanies his mother and father (one of the first travelling picture-show men) through central-western New South Wales, Australia, as they present silent films, films accompanied by vinyl soundtracks, and finally sound films on celluloid. An Eventful Life then follows Will through his teenage years working on sheep and cattle stations and in a city apprenticeship. He joins the Royal Australian Navy, is hospitalized for months with tuberculosis, and undergoes extensive artificial pneumothorax treatments. He then leaves Australia, joins the British Merchant Navy as an engineer, teaches in New Zealand, and finally returns to Sydney, where he marries and has a family. Will completes his high school education and obtains a science degree from the University of New South Wales. He teaches secondary school in Sydney, with a sojourn into management training. He and his wife fully sample small farming and the many facets of animal husbandry before he experiences his wife’s gradual decline from Alzheimer’s/dementia and her hospitalization.

Author: Alison Duthie
Publisher: Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd
ISBN: 0980786754
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Author: Susanna Moodie
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776621238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Flora Lyndsay is Susanna Moodie’s prequel to Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings. Though Moodie fictionalizes herself in the context of this novel, Flora Lyndsay remains a close personalized record of her family’s experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic. Despite the limited critical attention it receives, Flora Lyndsay reveals Moodie’s style, her sense of form, and her distinctive approach to writing female autobiography. This edition, complete with a wide corpus of endnotes, an extensive list of emendations, and a critical introduction, helps address this oversight and gives a closer look at the iconic phenomenon that is Susanna Moodie.

Author: Charles Hulbert
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Charles HULBERT
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Francis O'Neill
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810124653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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This remarkable memoir of immigration and assimilation provides a rare view of urban life in Chicago in the late 1800s by a newcomer to the city and the Midwest, and the nation as well. Francis O'Neill left Ireland in 1865. After five years traveling the world as a sailor, he and his family settled in Chicago just shortly before the Great Fire of 1871. His memoir also brings to life the challenges involved in succeeding in a new land, providing for his family, and integrating into a new culture. Francis O'Neill serves as a fine documentarian of the Irish immigrant experience in Chicago.

Author: Stopford James Ram
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Bertha von Suttner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368932845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Reproduction of the original.

Author: Francis Neale (philatelist.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Bertha Von Suttner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338709843X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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