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In recent years Australian wild food plants have being gaining much interest amongst plant growers and cooks.
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On one forward reconnaissance Beadell discovered a small group of Aborigines who had never before seen a white person. These and many other adventures of the outback are retold in Beadell’s own lively and entertaining style.
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EXPLORE THE FLINDERS RANGES explains the cultural and natural histories of the region as you experience them in your travels. Fascinating geological history is easily seen and explained as are the diverse plants and animals which inhabit these largely arid hills. There is plenty of evidence in art and stories of the long history of the Aborigines; the short period of European colonisation shows in many landscapes. The Flinders is a place to pause and admire.
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Farina was founded in the 1870’s on an outback South Australian gibber plan as the rail head for the towns that were to grow wheat well beyond Goyder’s Line.
Soft-cover
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This comprehensive field guide draws together the knowledge of the more common plants within the outback region of South Australia (the area north of a line from the Murray River to Morgan, across to Pt Augusta and westwards to the W.A. border). 356 of the most common outback plants are described and illustrated (incl. 24 introduced weeds). 212 of these plants are featured with full page descriptions, the others have shorter treatments. Distribution maps are provided. All species are arranged by their life form (trees, shrubs, forbs, grasses, climbers, etc.) for easier identification.
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Howitt´s story makes enthralling reading. He recounts the discovery of the two dead explorers, and the recovery of the sole survivor, John King. In the final part of the story, Howitt reflects on the return expedition to collect the two bodies. Finding Burke and Wills republishes a talk Howitt gave in Adelaide more than 40 years later in 1907, with the explorer looking back on the two expeditions.
He also discusses the 1858 expedition into South Australia´s Far North led by Benjamin Herschel Babbage, who was recalled under controversial circumstances for making slow progress. Howitt makes a convincing case for his belief that the Government had made a scapegoat out of Babbage.
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Alfred Howitt’s personal reminiscences of Central Austrlia include his tributes to earlier explorers – Eward John Eyre, Charles Sturt and Benjamin Herschel Babbage.
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Recipe Book
Recipe’s from all the local ladies of the Flinders Ranges area.
Filled with old fashion recipes from sweets to savouries to Jams and Sauces.
Soft Cover
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FLINGERS RANGES
Discover the splendour of one of the world’s most unique land formations from the glacial rocks of Barranna Gorge in the Gammon Ranges and the mysterious granite waves of Aroona Valley to the majestic peaks and sheer scarps of Wilpena Pound and Arkaroola. Descend into Sacred Canyon, where abstract Aboriginal rock paintings defy interpretation soar above the intriguing sawtooth ridges of Brachina Gorge and visit the Heysen Range, inspiration for Sir Hans Heysen’s works. Marvel at the multi coloured boulders of Parachilna Gorge the majesty of Mt Painter the rugged beauty of Yudnamutana Gorge stretching away to the North.
WILDFLOWERS
The Flora of Australia’s Nature Garden is the culmination of eighteen years of filming by the Award Winning Panorama Australia Production Team.
The stunning Flowers, Pants, Ferns, Shrubs and Trees of the Australian countryside are captured magnificently by our cameras and we feature the world renowned, irresistible flowers of Western Australia.
We reveal the history of the Wildflower with a montage of striking and diverse flora combined with a fascinating script and beautiful music.
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Flinders Ranges Map South Australia is 1:350,000.
This is an excellent map for planning your holiday and using on your Flinders Ranges holiday. We find many people use their GPS on their phone, and then find there is no mobile coverage in many places.
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Flynn’s “Mantle of Safety” continued to cover the bush during the turbulent years of the Second World War, despite a severe manpower shortage. Women filled some of the gaps left by men going to war.
When peace returned, a new era had begun in which the input of women in positions previously dominated by men became commonplace. We find women Flying Dentists, Flying Doctor Pilots, teachers on School of the Air (which utilised Flynn’s wireless network), Flight Nurses and other new and significant roles as the Mantle of Safety spread its responsibilities. Always compassionate, they served with distinction in difficult and sometimes dangerous situations, but what shines through most of all is their irrepressible humour and pluck. The book is lightened by their amusing anecdotes. It is also enlivened by the romances that flourished between the city women and the rugged, lonely men of the bush.
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Marcus Clarke’s famous historical novel FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE is ore than one of Australia’s greatest and most widely read classics. It’s a horrifying, compelling story of suffering and survival under desperate conditions.
Drawing its material from the appalling but authentic annals of Tasmania’s haunted past, it tells of a man who has been born to wealth and comfort yet is transported to the convict island on a murder charge of which he is innocent – and against which he cannot defend himself without betraying his own mother.
Amid searing, unforgettable descriptions of his sufferings at Port Arthur, Macquarie Harbour and the infamous Norfolf Island, the tale unfolds a disturbing and brutal panorama of people and events.
Yet excitement never flags as convicts and overseers all play their parts in the drama – vying for the reader’s attention with flogging, rape, mutiny, disease, escape and even cannibalism.
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Fort Dundas was the first outpost of Europeans in Australia’s north. It was a British fortification manned by soldiers, marines and convicts, and built by them on remote Melville Island in 1824. It lasted until 1829, when it was abandoned and left to the termites. In its short existence we have tales of great privation,…
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The Iwaidja woman, her belly opened by a bayonet, slipped below the dark water. Her 6-year-old daughter, Reveral, watched in terror. Her baby sister was already dead, hit by a slug in the first volley or drowned, but a young man lying on the sand with his intestines spilling out had to be finished off – out of mercy! Reveral, wounded in her side, was carried back to the fort in triumph, for she was worth a £5 reward from Commandant Smyth.
Capturing an Australian was how the British sought to make friends with the Iwaidja, on whose lands the new British garrison of Fort Wellington was being built. It was an appalling start, but eventually, with the remarkable Captain Collet Barker in charge, friendships were established. At last, it looked like a successful trading settlement would follow, the British would live in peace with the local tribe, and they would welcome, and protect the Macassan fisherman, who came annually to the peninsula for trepang.
But then, a twice ship-wrecked captain struggled ashore with the order to abandon the north coast altogether, and the soldiers, Royal Marines, convicts, their families, and even Reveral herself, wearily packed up the settlement and moved on, leaving the fort and its gardens to the Iwaidja. ‘Another of our sweet, nice, wise, profitable, gingerbread, out of the way plythings is to go’, rejoiced The Australian in 1829.
This is the extraordinary forgotten story of the second attempt at settling Australia’s north coast.
With a foreword by His Honour the Honourable Austin Asche AC QC, the 13th Administrator of the Northern Territory.
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Forty years after legendary filmmaker John Heyer captured a uniquely Aussie adventure on film, we revisit the dusty outback once more as dedicated postman Tom Kruse returns to the rugged Birdsville Track to relive his past and comment on the future of outback Australia.
Exploring past endeavours and investigating significant changes across the decades, Back To The Back of Beyond looks at the developing countryside, where the 300-mile track that was used by Aboriginal people trading between north and south became such an important lifeline to outlying cattle stations.
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