Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416593101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A tale inspired by the plight of the Australian Aborigines follows a clash between a powerful family, tribe leaders, and mobsters in a sparsely populated northern Queensland town, a conflict marked by the machinations of a religious zealot, a murderous politician, and an activist.
Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416593101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A tale inspired by the plight of the Australian Aborigines follows a clash between a powerful family, tribe leaders, and mobsters in a sparsely populated northern Queensland town, a conflict marked by the machinations of a religious zealot, a murderous politician, and an activist.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416593101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A tale inspired by the plight of the Australian Aborigines follows a clash between a powerful family, tribe leaders, and mobsters in a sparsely populated northern Queensland town, a conflict marked by the machinations of a religious zealot, a murderous politician, and an activist.
Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811238040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811238040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria, in Search of Burke & Wills
Author: William Landsborough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Map shows also the routes of Oxley, Sturt, Mitchell, Eyre, Leichhardt, Kennedy, Gregory, Babbage, Warburton, Stuart, Burke and Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Map shows also the routes of Oxley, Sturt, Mitchell, Eyre, Leichhardt, Kennedy, Gregory, Babbage, Warburton, Stuart, Burke and Walker
Landsborough's Exploration of Australia from Carpentaria to Melbourne, with Especial Reference to the Settlement of Available Country
Author: William Landsborough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Narrative of a Voyage from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria
Author: J. Kirby (Captain.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The Swan Book
Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501124781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501124781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.
Results of Rainfall Observations Made in Queensland, Including All Available Annual Rainfall Totals from 1040 Stations for All Years of Record Up to 1913
Author: Australia. Bureau of Meteorology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Indigenous Transnationalism
Author: Lynda Ng
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
ISBN: 1925818071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright’s novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied in Australia, and overseas, and valued for its imaginative power, its epic reach, and its remarkable use of language. Indigenous Transnationalism brings together eight essays by critics from seven different countries, each analysing Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria from a distinct national perspective. Taken together, these diverse voices highlight themes from the novel that resonate across cultures and continents: the primacy of the land; the battles that indigenous peoples fight for their language, culture and sovereignty; a concern with the environment and the effects of pollution. At the same time, by comparing the Aboriginal experience to that of other indigenous peoples, they demonstrate the means by which a transnational approach can highlight resistance to, or subversion of, national prejudices.
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
ISBN: 1925818071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright’s novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied in Australia, and overseas, and valued for its imaginative power, its epic reach, and its remarkable use of language. Indigenous Transnationalism brings together eight essays by critics from seven different countries, each analysing Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria from a distinct national perspective. Taken together, these diverse voices highlight themes from the novel that resonate across cultures and continents: the primacy of the land; the battles that indigenous peoples fight for their language, culture and sovereignty; a concern with the environment and the effects of pollution. At the same time, by comparing the Aboriginal experience to that of other indigenous peoples, they demonstrate the means by which a transnational approach can highlight resistance to, or subversion of, national prejudices.
Singing Saltwater Country
Author: John Bradley
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742690920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their Dreaming.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742690920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their Dreaming.
Cross Over Carpentaria
Author: John Bayton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carpentaria (Diocese)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
p.17-22; Contacts with and comments on the Aboriginals of Torres Strait by the early explorers; p.23-25; spiritual beliefs; Laws of morality and behaviour; p.30; description of the Aborigines of Cape York by the Resident Magistrate 1866; p.33; first missionary contact with Cape York Aborigines 1867 - handicapped by great timidity; p.36-7; bad relations with police; p.41; origin of the Australian Aborigine; p.50; religious beliefs of Torres Strait Islanders - totems; p.86; church and state policy towards Aborigines 1900; p.90-93; establishment of Mitchell River Mission - native reaction; p.104-5; Roper River Mission established 1908 - problems of Aborigines walkabout; p.123; character of Aborigine compared with Papuan; p.140; improvement in the Aborigines at Roper River Mission; p.143; progress at Mitchell River; p.151; Koboberra tribe - warlike - unsympathetic to mission overtures; p.152; J.W. Chapmans contribution to Aboriginal welfare at Mitchell River Mission; p.176; Nunggubuyu tribe - coroboree grounds - sacred poles; Tribe moved to Rose River mission founded; p.197-200; statement of Government assimilation policy by Minister for Territories; Brief histories of other missions in area.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carpentaria (Diocese)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
p.17-22; Contacts with and comments on the Aboriginals of Torres Strait by the early explorers; p.23-25; spiritual beliefs; Laws of morality and behaviour; p.30; description of the Aborigines of Cape York by the Resident Magistrate 1866; p.33; first missionary contact with Cape York Aborigines 1867 - handicapped by great timidity; p.36-7; bad relations with police; p.41; origin of the Australian Aborigine; p.50; religious beliefs of Torres Strait Islanders - totems; p.86; church and state policy towards Aborigines 1900; p.90-93; establishment of Mitchell River Mission - native reaction; p.104-5; Roper River Mission established 1908 - problems of Aborigines walkabout; p.123; character of Aborigine compared with Papuan; p.140; improvement in the Aborigines at Roper River Mission; p.143; progress at Mitchell River; p.151; Koboberra tribe - warlike - unsympathetic to mission overtures; p.152; J.W. Chapmans contribution to Aboriginal welfare at Mitchell River Mission; p.176; Nunggubuyu tribe - coroboree grounds - sacred poles; Tribe moved to Rose River mission founded; p.197-200; statement of Government assimilation policy by Minister for Territories; Brief histories of other missions in area.