The true story of Harold Bell Lasseter's discovery of a massive gold reef in Central Australia, his venture into the interior to find it again using camel, trucks and aeroplane; and his disappearance, lost among Aboriginal tribes in the Central Desert.
Harold Bell Lasseter claimed to have found an immense reef of gold in Central Australia and he dissapeared while searching for the reef in 1930. Lasseter claims in his diary that he had rediscovered the reef and had pegged and claimed the area (but gave no date or no location); however, suffering from starvation and sandy blight he recorded his ......
American-born Gus Pierce arrived in Australia and 1860 and promptly deserted, swimming ashore at Port Phillip. He worked as a photographer for Batchelders and painted scenery for the Lyceum theatre before hunting for snakes with Joe Shires – the inventor of a snake-bite cure. He compiled a strip map of the Murray River from Albury to Goolwa, by ......
American-born Gus Pierce arrived in Australia and 1860 and promptly deserted, swimming ashore at Port Phillip. He worked as a photographer for Batchelders and painted scenery for the Lyceum theatre before hunting for snakes with Joe Shires – the inventor of a snake-bite cure. He compiled a strip map of the Murray River from Albury to Goolwa, by ......
Tony Keulemans spent his childhood in the UK and was a war-time evacuee. At age 19, he was commissioned in the Royal Air Force and during the next seven years served in post-war Germany and Holland. Following an RAF mission to Woomera in 1952 and a brief visit to Sydney, he decided to start a new life in Australia.
In 1838 Lower Canada was in turmoil with many French Canadians wanting a republic there, thwarting the British administration. Once the rebellion was closed down, 58 French Canadian rebels were sent to Sydney's Longbottom stockade north of Burwood, where they were given 5 acres of land to work for 5 years. Most families left to return to Canada or ......
The best book to discuss the creative work of Aboriginal author, playwright and poet (1917-2000). First published in 1994, including essays by Ooodgeroo.
The first publication of the author's selected letters 1933-1937, gives us an insight into the working method and mind of the best-selling author, as he tries to grapple with the making of the Sidney Kidman story - The Cattle King. Man Tracks and several others. Presented and introduced by Dr David Paterson, with 86 letters contexted to their ......
