The Dig Tree

Author : Sarah Murgatroyd
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921351721
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dig 3ft NW written by Sarah Murgatroyd and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of Melbourne. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to become the first European to cross the Australian continent. A few months later, an ancient coolibah tree at Cooper Creek bore a strange carving- 'Dig 3ft NW'. Burke, Wills and five other men were dead. The expedition had become an astonishing tragedy. In Dig 3FT NW, the young adult edition of her bestselling classic The Dig Tree, Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the story of the disaster with all its heroism and romance, its discoveries, coincidences and lost opportunities. Generously illustrated with photographs, paintings and maps, Dig 3FT NW is a spell-binding book for teenagers and adults alike.

Author : Cynan Jones
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893941
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig written by Cynan Jones and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape—for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents—is absolutely magnetic."—Sarah Waters "A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—The Guardian "It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."—Daily Telegraph "Cynan Jones's fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful work—not in spite of its brevity but because of it. . . . In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique."—Financial Times Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the United States.

Author : David George Haskell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052542752X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songs of Trees written by David George Haskell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Sarah Murgatroyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877008085
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig Tree written by Sarah Murgatroyd and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Murgatroyd
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192152099X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig Tree written by Sarah Murgatroyd and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murgatroyd has brought together for the first time new scientific and historical evidence, and tells the story of Burke and Wills, the explorers who set out to cross Australia from coast to coast, in brilliant detail. Here, at last, is the book that brings to life Australia's most infamous story of exploration. The Dig Tree describes vividly the remarkable courage, the suffering and the moments of sheer lunacy, as Burke and Wills struggled to survive in a harsh land they did not understand. Sarah Murgatroyd's style is immensely readable. She has written with warmth about Burke and Wills and their party, and reveals fascinating detail - for example, that Burke had a notoriously bad sense of direction, and was famous for getting lost even on the way home from his local pub! Though we all know the basic story of the Burke and Wills expedition, The Dig Tree reveals just how little most of us know of the individuals, the politics, the blunders and the ambitions behind this extraordinary event in Australia's history. This is essential and utterly compelling reading.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744076455
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tree Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret world of trees is revealed in this beautiful and absorbing guide to the giants of the plant world. Trees occur naturally throughout the world and have been a part of human history almost as long as humans have existed. Used for shelter, tools, fuel, and food, they also help supply the atmosphere with oxygen and form astonishingly diverse ecosystems, as well as some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes. Now the intricate world of leafy woodlands and abundant rainforests is revealed in this extensive visual guide to trees, exploring their key scientific traits and their ecological importance, as well as their enduring significance in human history and culture. From ancient oaks and great redwoods to lush banyans and imposing kapoks, The Tree Book reveals the anatomy, behaviors, and beauty of these incredible plants and habitats in detail. Combining natural history and a scientific overview with a wider look at the history, uses, symbolism, and mythology of trees, this book is a new kind of guide to these fascinating organisms.

Author : Dave Phoenix
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486301592
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Following Burke and Wills Across Australia written by Dave Phoenix and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Australian has heard of Burke and Wills but few have travelled in their footsteps. In 2008, historian Dave Phoenix decided to walk across Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, following the track taken by the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition. Now you can follow them too. Following Burke and Wills Across Australia guides you on a road trip that follows one of history’s great transcontinental journeys, sharing the explorers’ experiences on the way. Maps lay out a route that takes you as close as possible to the Expedition’s track. As you travel the outback roads, you can learn all the details of the day to day journey of the Expedition from the explorers’ own words, and compare what you see with their descriptions of the country in 1860–61. Each chapter provides information about what to see now: the location and descriptions of the markers and memorials placed along the route over the 150 years since the Expedition, and places where you can stand where the explorers stood and look out over prospects they drew and described. The book is a perfect companion for those wanting to see outback Australia, and at the same time understand a journey that has attained mythic status in the history of Australian exploration. Even if you want to follow only part of the track, this is the book for you.

Author : Sarah Murgatroyd
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921921862
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig Tree: Text Classics written by Sarah Murgatroyd and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Burke and Wills is legend. Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the story of the disaster with all its heroism and romance, its discoveries, coincidences and lost opportunities. Generously illustrated with photographs, paintings and maps, The Dig Tree is a spell-binding book.

Author : Sarah P. Murgatroyd
Publisher : Broadway
ISBN 13 : 9780767908283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig Tree written by Sarah P. Murgatroyd and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist and adventure traveler Murgatroyd relives the harrowing true story of the Burke and Wills expedition team, who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost. 53 photos.

Author : Sarah Murgatroyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781459637429
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig Tree written by Sarah Murgatroyd and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: