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  • SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS IN QUEENSLAND
    Paul Dillon
    Foreword by Professor Geoffrey BlaineyDillon often sets out long documents which give readers an opportunity to learn more and more, and even to make up their mind. Thus, he challenges the prevailing view that these islanders were usually shipped home like sheep without any worthwhile gain. -- Geoffrey BlaineyIn ’Bêche-de-mer and the Binghis’, I explore the maritime history of ...
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    34,56 €

  • Queensland’s Contribution to the Development of British New Guinea
    Paul Dillon
    Dillon’s latest book investigates, with keen attention to detail, colonial Queensland’s role in the development of British New Guinea. It reveals the rising importance of Torres Strait and its international steamship traffic, the contest with Germany in 1883 for the easterly or non-Dutch portion of New Guinea and the attractive islands of New Britain and New Ireland. Without th...
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    25,78 €

  • The History of Bêche-de-mer Fishing in Queensland Waters and Adjacent Islands
    Paul Dillon
    Bêche-de-mer is an edible sea creature used to make soup. These primitive sea creatures are a popular food in several Asian cultures, especially Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese cuisines. During the colonial period of Queensland’s history, Aboriginals were employed to harvest the animals at low tide amongst the coral reefs of Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef. Ma...
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    28,48 €

  • FRASER ISLAND MASSACRE
    Paul Dillon
    Mr. Paul Dillon, a Sunshine Coast author of several books on Queensland history has written another straight-talking, straight-shooting book about the Wide Bay frontier during colonial times: Fraser Island Massacre Vrai ou Faux.Captain Cook called it the Great Sandy Island; the locals called it Fraser Island; now the Queensland Labor government calls it K’gari. It’s the place t...
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    32,71 €

  • THE IRVINEBANK MASSACRE
    Paul Dillon
    On the evening of 18 October 1884, a group of at least five Aborigines, were sitting round a camp fire boiling the billy and yarning in blackfellow talk when they were fusilladed. Tommy jumped up and ran for it; followed by the thwacks and zings of the bullets as they whizzed after him. The others stayed where they fell. The next day, Alicky, a town blackboy spoke to John Moffa...
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    27,05 €

  • Inside the Killing Fields
    Paul Dillon
    Cowboys and Indians, does that mean anything anymore? As a movie genre, it portrayed the white Anglo male as a hero, who sought to assert his authority over nature and all that inhabited it: Indians, rivers, mountains, animals, droughts, floods and gunmen. Were there any Cowboys and Indians in Australia’s colonial past? Perhaps there were similarities. The white man took up the...
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    24,64 €

  • The Murder of John Francis Dowling and the Massacre of 300 Aborigines
    Paul Dillon
    This book is an attempt to tell that story as best one can with the information that still exists. It’s a simple story but the problem nowadays is by what yardstick should it be told. Should we see it as the loss of a pioneer attempting to settle the Australian outback, attempting to advance Australia. Or is the real story the relentless march of the white man’s livestock tramp...
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    24,84 €

  • FREDERICK WALKER
    Paul Dillon
    This is the first and only complete biography of Frederick Walker, 1820 to 1866.  Mr Walker's life was one of isolation, hardship and rejection. As Commandant of the Native Police, he was the man who stood at the front line of Australian history with his true and trusty sable force. He was much abused in his day by the squatters for his careful and clement handling of Abori...
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    38,66 €

  • The Symphony
    Paul Dillon
    Each day and night a magical musical symphony is performed under the stars, the sun, and the moon.Each of the animals in the Balbirooroo wetland has a different voice and sound to make in their mysterious orchestra. Every day Sticky Webster, the symphony conductor, weave’s a spider’s web for each animal in her old gum tree. In the morning the sparkling dew drops settle on each ...
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    22,27 €