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In this book, for the first time, all of the State’s grasses have been carefully drawn to show their salient features, including more than 450 line drawings and 20 paintings illustrating typical members of each tribe. In recent years there has been an enormous growth in interest in grasses for agricultural and horticultural purposes. After South Australia’s Native Grass Resources Group identified a need by land managers for up-to-date information, the State Herbarium of South Australia agreed to undertake the preparation of this handbook.Descriptions, illustrations and keys provide the essential information, while special features such as ecological notes provided by field workers and brief statements of distribution for Australia and overseas are also included. Grasses of South Australia provides easy-to-read and valuable information for everyone with an interest in grasses, whatever their expertise, including people living and working in rural areas and those involved in conservation and re-vegetation.

In this book, for the first time, all of the State’s grasses have been carefully drawn to show their salient features, including more than 450 line drawings and 20 paintings illustrating typical members of each tribe. In recent years there has been an enormous growth in interest in grasses for agricultural and horticultural purposes. After South Australia’s Native Grass Resources Group identified a need by land managers for up-to-date information, the State Herbarium of South Australia agreed to undertake the preparation of this handbook.Descriptions, illustrations and keys provide the essential information, while special features such as ecological notes provided by field workers and brief statements of distribution for Australia and overseas are also included. Grasses of South Australia provides easy-to-read and valuable information for everyone with an interest in grasses, whatever their expertise, including people living and working in rural areas and those involved in conservation and re-vegetation.

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 391pages. A collaboration among many historians and others well known in the field of documenting South Australia's past. These essays concern various aspects of life and politics in South Australia during the long Premiership of Sir Thomas Playford

Excerpt from Geological Observations in South Australia: Principally in the District South-East of AdelaideIn a country where so much is to be observed, it may prove useful to see how the Author has done so. This is another object of the quotations; but.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Marie Steiner's Servants Depots in Colonial South Australia is a fascinating account of a little-known period in South Australian history. In 1855 the colony of South Australia experienced 'excessive female immigration', with large numbers of single females arriving from the British Isles to work as servants. When an economic downturn led to a shortage of domestic help positions, the Colonial Government was moved to establish servants' depots around South Australia to house them. The book details the day-to-day running of these depots, and reveals much about the attitudes towards women in colonial South Australia.

Hardcover in dust jacket, clean/tight, large business card of Brian Nadio (mayor of Glenelg) affixed to front endpaper also he has SIGNED and dated the endpaper just below the card, else unmarked, No tears/creases, minimal wear; Near Fine/Near Fine. We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking. "Historic Glenelg: Birthplace of South Australia 1855-1979"

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvi, 247pp. Includes explanatory notes and 8 Appendices.

Covers & Spine: front and back showing light scuffing & signs of handling, small (1cm) tear bottom front, only minor wear at edges and corners, spine is intact and solid. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. Due to the size and lighter weight of this item, standard postage cost will be less than what is quoted here. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

Title: Memories of Early Days in South Australia. [By Mrs. Alfred Watts.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++ British Library Anonymous; Watts, Alfred; 1882. 150 p. ; 8º. 10099.k.41.

When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would be as much 'under the safeguard of the law as the Colonists themselves, and equally entitled to the privileges of British subjects'. But could colonial governments provide the protection that was promised? Out of the Silence explores the nature and extent of violence on South Australia's frontiers in light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of the law, and the resonances of that history in social memory. What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten? And what might this reveal about our understanding of the nation's history and its legacies in the present?

Part history, part biography, First Among Equals takes us on a journey through the history of the State of South Australia as we follow the lives of the five Chief Justices who completed their term in the twentieth century. The book begins in the genteel South Australia of the last days of Queen Victoria when the Post Office and Town Hall Towers were the tallest structures in the Adelaide skyline. Its dominating personality then was Chief Justice Sir Samuel Way. He was also Lieutenant-Governor, Chancellor of the only university, and presided over the organizations that governed the Childrens Hospital, Art Gallery, Museum, Library, Zoo and Botanic Gardens. The twentieth century unfurled and the role of the Chief Justice in South Australia evolved. The State grew more sophisticated and the Courts expanded considerably. It achieved it final form under Len King, Chief Justice from 1978 until 1995, whose legacy is the form it holds now.

This handsome book has been unanimously acclaimed as a reliable field guide for naturalists and an authoritative text for botanists. It will also be an inspiration and fund of practical information for professional and amateur gardeners. The recently amended text is comprehensive and clear, the format simple and easy to follow, and the copious illustrations, many in colour, are both useful and beautiful. Of particular value are the distribution maps, keys to genera and species, information on propagation and cultivation, and a variety of illustrations which enable identification beyond all doubt.

This is the story of how Italians struggled to earn the right to live and work in the midst of an Anglo-Saxon society. It is a story of fear: the Britishers' fear that the 'swarthy' undesirables would threaten their jobs and their way of life; the fear that Italians would form impenetrable enclaves; and the fear, as the second world war erupted, that Italians might sabotage the war effort and assist the Axis powers to take over Australia. But, as Bruno Crotti said in a letter to the Adelaide Advertiser in 1937, 'no one need be afraid' of Italians. They came 'determined to better their lot by hard work' and to help on developing their adopted country.

In this new approach to offering design resource material, both the authentic work from the museum and the copy-right-free art are on facing pages so the original colors and lines can be studied.

Documents the impact on South Australian Aboriginals of the white government, white legislation and other influences of white culture. The book examines these factors from the Aboriginals' point of view and looks at the Aboriginals' history from 1836.

This groundbreaking work on the identification of tadpoles represents an ideal synthesis of science and natural history that will encourage both amateur and professional to observe and monitor declining frog fauna. The book is designed for use both in the field and the laboratory for the identification of tadpoles and frog eggs. It describes 84 species, including 30 species never described elsewhere. The first part of the book provides brief overviews of frog classification, developmental stages and conservation issues. Part 2 includes an identification key for tadpoles and another for eggs and embryos. It includes a section on collecting tadpoles and raising them in captivity to confirm identity. Part 3 provides detailed, illustrated species descriptions of tadpoles and adult frogs, with distribution maps for each species. The book includes 268 full-color photographs and more than 300 line drawings. Tadpoles of South-eastern Australia sets a new benchmark for rigorous taxonomic work. Published by New Holland Publishers, Australia.

Dust jacket notes: "Basketry is a craft which is almost as old as the human race itself, and it can still be practiced today using little more than hands and the fibres from plants grown and gathered for oneself. This is the first book to look at world-wide techniques from an Australian perspective, and represents the accumulated teaching and learning experience of a group of basketmakers living in South Australia. It gives very clear and comprehensive descriptions of the basic techniques used in fibre basketry, shows how to choose and prepare the fibres from easily-grown plants and how to make a variety of different articles. The book is generously illustrated with line drawings and photographs. The baskets shown were made by many different people, some quite new to the craft, others with years of experience. The book provides a thorough, practical introduction for those who have never tried the craft, a refresher course and irresistible stimulation for those who already know something about it, together with many ideas for future directions."

This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia.In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged a young ethnologist, Ronald Berndt, to set up camp at Murray Bridge and to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on the story to future generations.For Ronald and Catherine Berndt, this was their first fieldwork together in an illustrious joint career of almost fifty years. During long periods, principally until 1943, they laboured with pencil and paper to put it all down - a far cry from the recording techniques of today's oral historians. Their fieldnotes were worked into a rough draft of what would become, but not until recently, the finished manuscript.The book's range is encyclopaedic and engrossing - sometimes dramatic. It encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths, and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Not least, it is a record of the dramatic changes following European colonization.A World That Was is a unique contribution to Australia's cultural history. There is simply no comparable body of work, nor is there ever likely to be.

A revised edition of the sell-out second edition, which includes over forty new species in a full-colour supplement. The complete text has been updated and many new plates added. Orchids of South-West Australia is a definitive work which describes almost 450 orchids and provides an accurate and easy means of identifying the native orchids of the region. Colour photographs, location maps and a description of each orchid - giving distinctive features, distribution, habitat, flowering period and common name - have made this an invaluable and popular guide.