In April 1890 the steamer Janet Nicoll set off from Sydney for a three-month trading voyage through the central and western Pacific. Aboard were seven white men, a crew of forty islanders, and one woman: a short-haired, barefoot, cigarette-smoking American, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, wife of the famous novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. The Cruise of the 'Janet Nichol' is her account of her journey with her husband and grown son through the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands. Fanny Stevenson's spirited personality led her into scenes and situations few Europeans, and fewer European women, had experienced. Her diary and its accompanying photographs offer unique glimpses of life in some of the last independent Pacific kingdoms and those just coming under colonial rule at the end of the nineteenth century. This book, with an introduction by Roslyn Jolly, is the story of an unconventional woman, her unusual marriage, and her adventurous journey through a rapidly changing Pacific world.

The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson

Biographies & Memoirs

Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift

Jolly, Roslyn

Travelers & Explorers

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Media Mythologies

Lowe, Barry

Humor & Entertainment

Dealing With Pornography: The Case Against Censorship (Frontlines (Sydney, N.S.W.), 5.)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilson, Paul R.

Social Sciences

The extraordinary wildlife of Australia has long held a special fascination for people throughout the world. Now international authority Penny Olsen offers the definitive work on Australia's spectacular birds of prey. In describing Australia's twenty-four species of birds of prey, Olsen relates their complex biology to the continent's unique geography and ecology. She explains why species such as the Nankeen Kestrel and Brown Falcon can range widely from coastal cliffs and river valleys to arid grasslands and wooded hillsides. She describes why others, such as the Red Goshawk, Pacific Baza, and Brahminy Kite, have ranges dramatically limited by their dependence on particular habitats and types of prey. Throughout, she focuses on important conservation issues that effect the well-being of raptors in the wild. She also describes their interactions with humans and recent advances in the care of sick and captive birds.

Australian Birds of Prey: The Biology and Ecology of Raptors

Science & Math

Olsen, Penny

Nature & Ecology

Principles of Structure is a college textbook that adopts a quantitative approach to structural mechanics and is used widely throughout Australia.

Principles of Structure

Wyatt, Ken J.

Arts & Photography

The Wombat: Common Wombats in Australia (Australian Natural History Series) [paperback] Triggs,

The Wombat: Common Wombats in Australia (Australian Natural History Series)

Triggs, Barbara

This is a superbly written and insightful account of the extraordinary lives of 100 of australia's 'forgotten' female convicts.

A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal

History

Smith, Babette

Europe

Lava fountains and lava bombs, glowing clouds and geysers are just some of the dramatic phenomena featured in this comprehensive, colourfully illustrated account of the Earth's volcanism past, present, and future, with an Australian focus

The Volcanic Earth: Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics : Past, Present & Future

Travel

Sutherland, Lin

Asia

Introductory Ac Circuit Theory

Engineering & Transportation

Mann, K

Russell, Gl

Engineering

Principles of Structure (Australian Natural History Series)

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