A. T. Yarwood tells the story of these part-Thoroughbred horses and of the men and women who rode, bought, sold and shipped Walers across the hemisphere. A lively and fascinating history. White An essential reference for all those who have come to appreciate the extraordinary richness of Australian writing for children. Librarians, book collectors, specialist and antiquarian booksellers, and others with an interest in this important aspect of Australian cultural history, now have an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive source. These journals cover the period when Captain Collet Barker, led expeditions and settlement parties to Raffles Bay in what is now the Northern Territory, and to King George's Sound, Western Australia.
Barker emerges as an excellent administrator, kind-hearted, zealous and firm.
His untimely death is movingly recounted in Chapter 1. The first definitive scientific survey of the third largest Australian flowering plant genus. Notes on distribution and ecology. In the Wake of the Cook Voyages Bernard Smith Now available in paperback. With its breadth of vision and attention to detail, its exploration of the complex relationship between the pursuit of knowledge and the exercise of power, Imagining the Pacific takes its place alongside Bernard Smith's earlier work as a milestone in historical scholarship.