Australian history live! : eyewitness accounts from the past
2013
Book
This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australia's past. Australian History Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts as reported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are gripping accounts of occasions both great and minor. Here you can find the heart wrenching account of a bewildered little terrier dog refusing to leave the bayoneted dead body of its master just killed at the Eureka Stockade. Read an amazing description of Bert Hinkler landing his absurdly tiny little aeroplane (he'd just flown it across the world in a world-record time) on the straight at Flemington Racecourse. Share scientist Francis Ratcliffe's experience of being caught and shaken by a very wild willy-willy.
Main title:
Australian history live! : eyewitness accounts from the past / selected and introduced by Ian Warden.
Imprint:
Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, [2013], c2013.Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, [2013].©2013.
Collation:
291 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, map, music, portraits ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-286) and index.
ISBN:
9780642277787
Dewey class:
994
Language:
English
BRN:
97347
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -History | HISTORY 994 AUST | Available |