My virtual bookshelf:
About The North Version 1.0
Recollection and Reconstruction Version 1.0
Reflection and Reminiscence Version 1.0
Origins: Outlining the physical environment:
- In The Beginning (in preparation)
- On the Surface: Shaping the Land (in preparation)
- On the Surface: Vegetation and Climate (in preparation)
Indigenes: The human and biological environments
- Out of Africa (in preparation)
- Fauna and Megafauna (in preparation)
- The Human Landscape (in preparation)
- What Mob Is That (Drafts)
Antecedents: The historical background:
- Ancient Greece (in preparation)
- Contact? (in preparation)
- Iberians (in preparation)
- The Low Countries
- Englishmen and Frenchmen (in preparation)
- Australia (in preparation)
- Queensland (in preparation)
Mapping The North:
- Prelude: Tracing an Outline (in preparation)
- Six Voyages (in preparation)
- Adding Detail
- Northern Queensland
Themes and Variations:
- Discounting the Notion of Discovery
- The Minimalist View of Australian History
- Why Did the British Government Send Convicts to Botany Bay?
- A Radical, Republican, Multicultural North? Really?
- 'Discovering' Australia's East Coast: Why Did It Take So Long?
Reference Material:
- Ages, Eras and Events (in preparation)
- Places: Around the Coastline (in preparation)
- Places: Highways and Byways (in preparation)
- Years: A Chronology (in preparation)
- Biographical Sketches: Historical Figures (in preparation)
- Biographical Sketches: Queensland (in preparation)
Sources and Readings:
- Antecedents: The Ancient World
- Antecedents: Australia
- Antecedents: Queensland
- Auchenflower
- Early Brisbane
- Maiwar and Meanjin
- Perceptions and Misconceptions
- Terra Australis Incognita
- Iberians
- Englishmen
- Dutchmen
- North Queensland: The 1870s
Texts:
- George Elphinstone Dalrymple, Reports And Narrative Of The North-East Coast Expedition, 1873
- Ian Hughes, A State Of Open Warfare: Frontier Conflict In The Cooktown Area
- J Beete Jukes, Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly, Commanded by Captain F. P. Blackwood, Volume 1
- T. D. Mutch The First Discovery of Australia: With an account of the Voyage of the "Duyfken" and the Career of Captain Willem Jansz
- Report of the Proceedings of the Queensland Government Schooner Spitfire, in Search Of The Mouth of the River Burdekin (1860)
