Author: John Vandenbeld
Publisher: Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816020065
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Offers a rich appreciation of Australia's unique natural history, tracing the origins of the continent and the relation of its flora and fauna to those of other lands, plus information on the coral reefs, and the deserts
Author: Julie Keys
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733640958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MUD LITERARY PRIZE 2020 'An intriguing read with compelling descriptions of early 20th-century Sydney in all its squalor, debauchery and fascinating historical detail.' Who Weekly 'a brisk, original tale written with verve' Mud Literary Prize judging committee A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn't her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an unfriendly woman who sprays her with a hose as she passes by. When they do talk: Muriel Kemp eyes my pregnant belly and tells me if I really want to succeed, I'd get rid of the baby. Driven to find out more about her curmudgeonly neighbour, Jane Cooper begins to investigate the life of Muriel, who claims to be a famous artist from Sydney's bohemian 1920s. Contemporary critics argue that legend, rather than ability, has secured her position in history. They also claim that the real Muriel Kemp died in 1936. Murderer, narcissist, sexual deviant or artistic genius and a woman before her time: Who really is Muriel Kemp?
Author: Virginia Ginnane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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These specially commissioned photographs celebrate the diversity of achievements and the contributions of prominent Australians today in the worlds of business, publishing, entertainment and science.
Author: Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773526440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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This book is the first critical assessment of Humphries' entire oeuvre, especially his career as an author. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, the author reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in the British music hall tradition, Dadaism and grotesquerie. Being Australian has also fundamentally shaped the performer and writer, and the author's defence of Humphries against charges of expatriatism is pertinent to the debate on Australian national identity.
Author: Australian Geographic
Publisher: Australian Geographic
ISBN: 9781925694796
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Bush life is not so much about trees and shrubs as it is about people, communities and places of the heart. 64pp
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ISBN: 9780995397521
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Anne-Louise Willoughby
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1925815218
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Hahndorf artist Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed as an official war artist. A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. In 1989, aged 78, Nora re-emerged on the Australian art scene when the nation's major art institutions restored her position after years of artistic obscurity. Extensively researched, and containing artworks and photographs from the painter's life, this is the first biography of the artist, and it has been enthusiastically embraced by the Heysen family. This authorized biography coincides with a major retrospective of the works of Nora and her father, landscape painter Hans Heysen, to be held at the National Gallery of Victoria in March 2019.
Author: Ender Baskan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646803449
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Australian Geographic
Publisher: Australian Geographic
ISBN: 9781742458595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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For 30 years AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC journalists have revealed the rich diversity of a nation. From schoolyards to parliament and the outback to the ocean, they have reported on Australia and Australians, both ordinary and extraordinary, going about their daily lives. Within these pages are photographs of landscapes both intimate and infinite, ......
Author: Arthur Wilberforce Jose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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