1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910892247503321

Titolo

The English teacher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seri Kembangan, Selangor : , : Malaysian English Language Teaching Association, , 1971-

ISSN

2716-6406

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

English literature - Study and teaching

Littérature anglaise - Étude et enseignement

Anglais (Langue) - Étude et enseignement

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970232703321

Autore

McKenna Mark <1959->

Titolo

From the edge : Australia's lost histories / / Mark McKenna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlton, Vic. : , : Melbourne University Press Digital, , 2016

ISBN

9780522862607

0522862608

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

994.02

Soggetti

First contact (Anthropology) - Australia

Shipwreck survival - Australia - History

Aboriginal Australians - History

Settlement and contacts

Australia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Eyeing the Country; 1 Walking the Edge: South-East Australia, 1797; 2 'World's End': Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, West Arnhem Land; 3 'Hip Bone Sticking Out': Murujuga and the Legacy of the Pilbara Frontier; 4 On Grassy Hill: Gangaar (Cooktown), North Queensland; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

March 1797. Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria. Five British sailors and twelve Bengali seamen swim ashore after their longboat is ripped apart in a storm. The British penal colony at Port Jackson is 700 kilometres to the north, their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove stranded far to the south on a tiny island in Bass Strait. To rescue them and save their own lives, they have no alternative. They set out to walk to Sydney. What follows is one of Australia's greatest survival stories and cross-cultural encounters. In From the Edge, award-winning historian Mark McKenna uncovers the places and histories that Australians so often fail to see. Like the largely forgotten story of the sailors' walk in 1797, these remarkable histories-the founding of a 'new Singapore' in West Arnhem Land in the 1840s, the site of Australia's largest industrial development project in the Pilbara and its



extraordinary Indigenous rock art, and James Cook's meeting with Aboriginal people at Cooktown in 1770-lie on the edge of the continent and the edge of national consciousness.Retracing their steps, McKenna explores the central drama of Australian history- the encounter between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians-each altered irrevocably by the other-and offers a new understanding of the country and its people.