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Short reviews of non-fiction from Australia and overseas

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 09 Nov 2015
PICK OF THE WEEK. The Art of Free Travel. PATRICK JONES, MEG ULMAN. NEW SOUTH, $34.99 Advertisement. Cycling from Daylesford to Cape York and back is not everyone's idea of a family holiday ... Many of the 17th-century sailors who charted the west and northern coasts of Australia were either in the hire of the first multi-national corporation – the Dutch East India Company – or working for ex-pirate, William Dampier ... 1 hits ... ....

Corrections and clarifications

Edit The Guardian 05 Nov 2015
Avocado . Canary Islands capitals . Andriy Yarmolenko ... The British explorer William Dampier wrote about the “Avogato Pear-tree” in 1697, and the Oxford English Dictionary cites references to “avocado” from 1764 (Green giant, 3 November, page 8, G2) ... ....

What’s your all-time top 10 books about boats? (Australian National Maritime Museum)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Oct 2015
(Source. Australian National Maritime Museum). One of the great books of all time set on a boat Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville. Illustration from the C. H. Simonds Co. edition, 1892. I was recently invited to talk with ABC 702 radio Mornings program's Linda Mottram about what might be my top ten 'books about boats' of all time ... The Life of William Dampier by Diana Preston Nathaniel's Nutmeg ... - Dr Stephen Gapps, Curator ... (noodl....

Tim Winton stands up for the landscape that inspired him

Edit The Australian 18 Sep 2015
Like any kid I was told not to stare ... It felt like a quirk of optics, a sleepy trick ... To the English buccaneer William Dampier, who visited the northwest coast in 1688 and 1699, the new land was a kingdom of sand and flies ... At last it seems we’ve begun to see past Dampier’s infernal flies, to behold in our remarkable diversity of habitats, landforms and species the riches of a continental isolation that so long troubled us ... ....

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year shortlist: Writing to inspire the wandering soul

Edit The Independent 03 Jul 2015
Without William Dampier, the explorer and buccaneer whose Voyages and Descriptions (1699) told the story of Alexander Selkirk's sojourn on a desert island, we probably wouldn't have had Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels or The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ... Travel Book Award, administered by the Authors' Club and funded by the Rev Dr William Dolman....

Colours of the sun

Edit Big News Network 30 May 2015
One of my favourite explorers of all time, William Dampier, was the first to document a specimen of the first Australian daisy, which was a brachyscome found in 1699 at Shark Bay.By the middle of the ... ....

Getty Research Institute Presents: A Kingdom Of Images: French Prints in the Age Of Louis XIV, 1660–1715 (J Paul Getty Museum)

Edit noodls 28 May 2015
(Source. J Paul Getty Museum). MEDIA CONTACT.. Amy Hood. Getty Communications. (310) 440-6427. ahood@getty.edu ... Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute ... Photo credit. BnF ... Pierre Landry (French, ca ... BnF ... Award winning children's author Cornelia Funke will read her latest Getty story, featuring William Dampier, a pirate, adventurer, explorer, and ghost tasked with keeping other ghosts and spirits haunting the Getty Center at bay ... Ms ... ....

Outdated ideology no basis for tax policy

Edit Canberra Times 07 Jan 2015
A remote-controlled mining truck loaded with iron ore at the Fortescue Solomon iron ore mine in the Sheila Valley in the Pilbara region of Western Australia ... But this is a relatively recent view ... In 1699 William Dampier sailed along the coast and observed that his magnetic compass "did describe a most powerful attraction to the mountains to the south" and correctly deduced that the mountains must consist of iron ... ....

Lakeville Food Packaging Plant Employee Indicted for Conspiring to Defraud Company for More Than $1.8 Million (Federal Bureau of Investigation - Minneapolis Field Office)

Edit noodls 04 Dec 2014
According to the indictment and documents filed in court, COLES conspired with and recruited his co-conspirators, STEVE CROOK, AARON ASH, DARREN GARDNER, JACQUELINE ROBINSON, and WILLIAM DAMPIER, to create fictitious industrial supply companies ... The only address for A-Z Industrial Supply Co., LLC., was DAMPIER'S home address in Phoenix, Ariz ... WILLIAM CURTIS DAMPIER, 32, Phoenix, Ariz....

The often forgotten first scientific expedition to Australia

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 25 Aug 2014
Over 70 years before Cook, William Dampier commanded the Roebuck on the first scientific expedition to Australia. ....

Robinson Crusoe and the Hundred Cats

Edit Huffington Post 18 Jul 2014
"The world with all its enjoyments, could not return him to the tranquility of his solitude." ... The unfit captain, William Dampier, was determined to round the dangerous waters of Cape Horn in a stormy sea ... Captain Dampier, who had made every wrong decision, made yet another one and decided to set sail without repairing the crippled ship. Rich merchant vessels sailed these waters and Dampier dreamed of the loot they could capture ... ....

PIRATES AS ‘SCIENTISTS’ FOCUS OF LECTURE TODAY

Edit U~T San Diego 27 Mar 2014
waters ... For example, the pirate William Dampier published the two-volume book “A New Voyage Around the World” in 1697, describing his findings in the Galapagos, China, Vietnam, Australia, India and Madagascar, Hanna said. Dampier’s measurements of wind patterns informed Benjamin Franklin’s discovery of the Gulf Stream ... Hanna, who has an upcoming book that includes more details about Dampier, will give his lecture from 7 to 8.30 p.m ... - ... ....

A treasure trove of pirate science

Edit U~T San Diego 26 Mar 2014
The pirate William Dampier published a two volume book “A New Voyage Around the World,” in 1967, describing his findings in the Galapagos, China, Vietnam, Australia, India and Madagascar, Hanna said. Dampier’s measurements of wind patterns informed Benjamin Franklin’s discovery of the Gulf Stream....
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