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Author: John Oxley
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Author: John Oxley
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Author: John Oxley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732682560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Reproduction of the original: Journals of Two Expeditions in the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley
Author: John Oxley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368342185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Reproduction of the original.
Author: John Oxley
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465508627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: John Oxley
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465510737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1203
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The following Journals were written at the close of many a laborious day, when the energies both of mind and body were almost exhausted by long-continued toil. The author trusts that this circumstance will account for, and palliate, some of the defects which may be discovered in his volumes. Conscious as he is of the deficiencies of his work, he nevertheless hopes that the reader will not pronounce it to be wholly devoid of interest. Though Australia calls up no historical recollections, no classical associations of ideas, it has other, and not less valid titles to our attention. It is a new and vast country, over the largest portion of which a veil of mystery still hangs; many of its productions vary in a singular manner, from those in other parts of the world; within the memory of man one British colony has risen there, in spite of adverse circumstances, to a high degree of prosperity; others have been founded, which promise to be equally successful; and it seems impossible to doubt that, at no distant period, the whole territory will be inhabited by a powerful people, speaking the English language, diffusing around them English civilisation and arts, and exercising a predominant influence over eastern Asia, and the numerous and extensive islands in that quarter of the globe. In his expeditions into the interior of Australia, the author was led cheerfully on, by an eager curiosity to examine a country which is yet in the same state as when it was formed by its Maker. With respect to the narrative of those expeditions, the sole merit which he claims is that of having faithfully described what he attentively observed; neither his pencil nor his pen has been allowed to pass the bounds of truth. There is however one branch of his subject on which justice and gratitude render it necessary for him to say something more. In those departments of natural history, to which he owns himself a stranger, he has received assistance of the utmost value from several distinguished persons. To the few plants which, after his unfortunate fellow traveller had sacrificed his life to the pursuit, the writer was able to collect, a permanent place in the botanic system has been given by Dr. Lindley. Much importance has been added to the work, by the researches and discoveries which Professor Owen has made, with regard to the fossil remains; and the few particulars gleaned relative to existing animals have enabled Mr. Ogilby to introduce several interesting novelties to the attention of zoologists. To these gentlemen, and also to Professor Faraday, Mr. MacLeay, and other scientific friends, the warmest acknowledgments of the writer are due, for whatever naturalists may deem worthy of praise in these pages.
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Author: Public Library of Victoria
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Author: M. Larkin
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Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Dane Kennedy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.
