Once Upon a Hume - Volume II
Title | Once Upon a Hume - Volume II PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Gard |
Publisher | BlueDawe Books |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2024-04-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0992475120 |
Once Upon A Hume Volume 2 continues our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share. The town clocks of Mittagong, Bowral, and Camden, and the fierce Battles of the Chimes ... The concentration camp at Berrima ... Grace Perry, black swan ... The fabulous 'Sally' of Sally's Corner ... Heroic 'Black Bob' of Black Bob's Creek ... The 'Tank Bank', taking Old Hume towns with a bang ... 'Old Bruce' Lewin, wandering yarn-spinner ... The hapless alpacas of Arthursleigh ... The Richter murder mystery ... The Marulan Tiger ... Goulburn's billycart ballyhoo ... … and many other persons and prominences. Once Upon a Hume is a travellers’ companion. Anecdotal, informative, and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. This is the second of several volumes about the colourful humanity who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.
Once Upon a Hume - Volume III
Title | Once Upon a Hume - Volume III PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Gard |
Publisher | BlueDawe Books |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2024-04-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0992475139 |
Once Upon A Hume Volume 3 pursues our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share. Four Captains of Goulburn Town… Mary Clarke, and the chapel at Run o’ Waters… Dr de Lisle Hammond, Yarra weather prophet… Stella Franklin, schoolgirl novelist… Marion Bell, who drove a motor car right around Australia. Because she could… The Kangaroo March… The Breadalbane Triangle… The Cullerin Food Riots… Herbert Rose, who sold shares in his Perpetual Motion machine to several Goulburn folk… ‘Fighting John’ Cooper of Gunning… Three Gunning scribes... … and many other persons and prominences. Once Upon a Hume is a travellers’ companion. Anecdotal, informative, and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. This is the third of several volumes about the colourful humanity who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.
Once Upon a Hume - Volume IV
Title | Once Upon a Hume - Volume IV PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Gard |
Publisher | BlueDawe Books |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2024-04-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0992475147 |
Once Upon A Hume Volume 4 pursues our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share. In this volume, we explore the stretch of Old Hume highway between Gunning and Gundagai. We meet odd and interesting people and investigate intriguing places and events. Mountain-tops and murderers. Suicides and spooks. Flivvers and floatplanes and floods. Bushfire, pandemics, bunyips and bridges. Persons colourful, admirable, execrable and astute. Locales remote, abandoned, busy and becalmed: * Rapine, revels and reverence at Jerrawa. * The eight bewhiskered sons of Henry Manton. * Two doughty Yass ladies not to be trifled with. * Mount Bowning. Unlicked. * Deep waters at Burrenjuck. * ‘Spider’ Martin and the Bookham Battler. * The Mystery of Mary Mathews. * The Flivver and the Monkey Nose. * The Jugiong Rioters. * Apocalypse at Coolac. * The Parable of the Warby Brothers at Mingay. * Gunda-guys, Gunda-gals. One night in the Niagara Café. … and many other persons and prominences. Once Upon a Hume is a travellers’ companion. Anecdotal, informative, and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. This is the fourth of several volumes about the colourful humanity who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.
New Letters of David Hume
Title | New Letters of David Hume PDF eBook |
Author | David Hume |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2011-07-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199693234 |
This volume, first published in 1954, is one of three presenting the correspondence of David Hume. It collects letters from 1737 to 1776 which do not appear in J. Y. T. Greig's two volumes of 1932, and offers a rich picture of the man and his age. The correspondents include such famous thinkers as Adam Smith, James Boswell, and Benjamin Franklin.
The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part II vol 11
Title | The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part II vol 11 PDF eBook |
Author | Grevel Lindop |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 671 |
Release | 2020-03-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000749746 |
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the second part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 91, no. 2)
Title | Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 91, no. 2) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 188 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781422380932 |
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Title | A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles PDF eBook |
Author | James Augustus Henry Murray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1700 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | English language |
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