Category: History - Other
These lectures each had a set of associated slides, a complete list of which can be found on pages 143-152 at the end of the book. These slide sets were sold separately and are not part of the book. Some of the slides (those highlighted in =bold= in the slide list) were insert...
These lectures each had a set of associated slides, a complete list of which can be found on pages 143-152 at the end of the book. These slide sets were sold separately and are...
2. Part 2Now let us turn for a moment from the animal to the plant life of Australia. In the tropical parts of Queensland there are many plants which belong to the Malayan region as a wh...
3. Part 3In this sandstone block the torrents have carved out deep gorges, which often widen out up-stream into broad valleys; but these valleys are deceptive and do not provide a road t...
4. Part 4The colony is in the first stage of organisation, when the main problem is to reduce the native to some kind of order. Let us see 51 what he is like and how he lives. Here are t...
5. Part 5Some of the railways have done more than develop the mining areas; they have been pushed westward into the pastoral country on the long inland slopes of Queensland. We have alre...
6. Part 6We cross Bass Strait and steam up the winding estuary of the Tamar to Launceston. The names remind us of England, and round us 35 are the counties of Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall...
7. Part 7We have already seen how, on the constitution of Queensland as a separate State in 1859, the country to the west was left as 25 a detached portion of New South Wales. In 1855, G...
8. Part 8A journey of seventeen miles by rail brings us to Invercargill. We have seen the products of the country at the port; here we shall learn something more of the people who own th...
9. Part 9From Greymouth another line of rail and coach will take us through another famous gorge on a zigzag course to Nelson on Tasman Bay. We realise that communication in this part of...
10. Part 10We can easily understand the fondness of the Maoris for the water. They were a race of islanders and fishermen, never really happy unless their houses were built close to the wa...
11. Part 11We must hurry on to Vavau, the most northerly of the three main groups of the Friendly Islands. Here the main island is hilly, with high limestone cliffs and ridges. It is the t...
12. Part 12The Solomons consist of a double row of long and narrow islands, with high mountain ridges and many volcanoes, some extinct, others still active. The largest island, Bougainvill...