The Crossing of the Blue Mountains

The Crossing of the Blue Mountains PDF Author: Alan Boardman
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ISBN: 9781863887076
Category : Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains)
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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The Crossing of the Blue Mountains

The Crossing of the Blue Mountains PDF Author: Alan Boardman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863887076
Category : Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains)
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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The Artificial Horizon

The Artificial Horizon PDF Author: Martin Edward Thomas
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522851519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Martin Thomas takes the reader on a journey through a compelling study of culture, landscape and mythology. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination. The author evokes this dramatic and bewildering landscape and leads his readers through the cultural history of the locality in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'.

Fourteen Journeys Over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, 1813-1841

Fourteen Journeys Over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, 1813-1841 PDF Author: George Mackaness
Publisher: Sydney ; Melbourne [etc.] : Horwitz-Grahame
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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To the Far Blue Mountains(Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

To the Far Blue Mountains(Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures) PDF Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0593722698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible. As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a royal warrant had been sworn out against him and that men were searching for him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackett had sold to finance his first trip to the Americas—coins believed to be part of a great treasure lost by King John years before. Believing that Sackett possesses the rest of the treasure, Queen Bess will stop at nothing to find him. If he’s caught, not only will his dream of a life in America be lost, but he will be brutally tortured and put to death on the gallows. Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1 and 2, Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Additionally, many beloved classics are being rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.

This Ain't the City

This Ain't the City PDF Author: #lostmtns Team
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646820712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The #lostmtns Team reveals their top Blue Mountains locations to explore, discover, eat, sleep and shop.

A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813

A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813 PDF Author: Gregory Blaxland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains) $x Discovery and exploration
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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The Preface by Charles Blaxland (Grandson off Gregory Blaxland) has this as the Third Edition of the journal. "I have decided to have a little pamphlet, with a few additions, reprinted for private circulation..." The preface has the date May, 1904, Wollun, New England.

Goa, and the Blue Mountains, Or, Six Months of Sick Leave

Goa, and the Blue Mountains, Or, Six Months of Sick Leave PDF Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malabar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Collits' Inn

Collits' Inn PDF Author: Christine Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228837190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Collits' Inn sits at the foot of Mount York, in Hartley Vale, just on the other side of the Blue Mountains. The Inn was built by Pierce Collits, an ex-convict, in 1823. This book is our personal story of restoring one of Australia's earliest Inns. All travellers crossing the Blue Mountains in 1823 had to come down the notoriously dangerous Cox's Pass past the Inn on their way to the settlement of Bathurst and other lands to the west. There were many surprises: The Collits' Inn Operetta, the early nearby Cemetery, the story of a murder, the many beautiful linoleums, two strange mediaeval customs, and more. When we acquired the Inn in 1998 it was very derelict. By 2002, several awards had been received both for the restoration and for the restaurant. The project was often challenging, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately rewarding, and so has been the process of putting this story together. Many people have encouraged and assisted me with the telling of our story and I am most grateful for their help.

The crossing of the Blue Mountains

The crossing of the Blue Mountains PDF Author: Alan Boardman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780732272272
Category : Blue Mountains (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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The Glade Within The Grove

The Glade Within The Grove PDF Author: David Foster
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742749119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Two of David Foster's previous books, Dog Rock and The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger, feature the eccentric postman D'Arcy D'Olivieres, a great and memorable creation, and one who makes a welcome return to Foster's fiction in The Glade Within the Grove. Now the retired postman of Dog Rock, D'Arcy recalls a time when he was a fill-in postman at a small town called Obligna Creek. There he discovers an unpublished manuscript in an old mailbag - The Ballad of Erinungarah, written by 'Orion'. As D'Arcy himself says, 'Weird piece of work. Back then, 1990, I'm not sure I understood the implications. But I have thought about little else since.' D'Arcy becomes obsessed by the Ballad and the events it describes, and writes The Glade Within The Grove as a gloss on the Ballad, and investigation of events that happened nearly thirty years ago: namely the establishment of a commune in the late 60s, deep in the forest country of the Far South Coast, somewhere near the NSW/Victorian border. The valley is a paradise, populated sparsely by isolated logging and rural families. It is literally stumbled upon by a famous 60s rock guitarist, Michael Ginnsy, who loses his dog in the valley, goes in to find him, is taken under the wing of two old hippies, Phryx and Gwen, who show him the way out of the inaccessible and impenetrable valley. Returning to Sydney, he can't stop talking about this idyllic place, and is eventually persuaded by a motley group of people at a wake for Martin Luther King to let them join him and attempt to find the valley. So they set off in the Kombi: hippies, a former pin-up girl, a drug dealer, junkies, rich kids looking for excitement, a Marxist. In the days of the anti-Vietnam movement, this disparate group are all variously pursuing alternative lives, so a commune is the obvious answer when they literally stumble (again) upon the valley paradise. The link between country and city is forged when Attis, a foundling looked after by the logging family, and Diane, the youngest, feistiest and most radical of the city group, meet at a rodeo and instantly fall in love. Then they find abandoned the hut where the old hippies Phryx and Gwen lived, and discover they were killed by a lone anti-logging terrorist, who has found a Sacred Grove of 1000 year old cedars deep in the valley, and is trying to protect them from the outside world. Newcomers and suspicious old-timers must work together to save paradise from the madman.