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Letter of Barcroft Boake
Fragment of a letter from Barcroft Boake to his father.
The Poetry of Barcroft Boake
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake was born on March 26th 1866 at Waterview Bay, Balmain in New South Wales, Australia. One of nine children, three who died in infancy, Barcroft was an active, enthusiastic child but fell early to worrying signs of depression. His father, had Barcroft educated privately. Between 8 to 9 he attended a school run by the Misses Cook at Milson's Point and then two years with Allen Hughan and his wife, friends of the family, in Noumea, where he also acquired a grounding in French. On his return he had two terms at Sydney Grammar School and then five years at the private school of Edward Blackmore. By age 17 he had begun work with a surveyor in Sydney, passing the entrance...
Times & Tides
Only a stone’s throw from central Sydney, the northern arm of Port Jackson, otherwise known as Middle Harbour, has a mystique all of its own. Unlike most Australian city environs, Middle Harbour was almost entirely neglected during the first two centuries of European settlement. As such, it still contains regions of virtually untouched bushland, and a surprising history to match. Times & Tides by acclaimed historian Gavin Souter is an exploration of this unique – and precious – part of Australia. In prose that is lucid and informed, Souter trawls back and forth in time to create an evocative and multi-layered narrative encompassing Aboriginal life, European arrival, modern suburbs and the natural history of bays, creeks and the bush. Fascinating and insightful, Times & Tides is also a very personal account by someone who has lived within sight of Middle Harbour for almost fifty years. First published in 2004, and rereleased now for the first time digitally, Times & Tides won the North Shore Historical Society’s Isabella Brierley Prize.
White Vanishing
The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture. It has been sung in “Little Boy Lost,” brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging Rock, immortalized in Henry Lawson’s poems of lost tramps, and preserved in the history books’ tales of Leichhardt or Burke and Wills wandering in mad circles. A world-wide audience has also witnessed the many-layered and oddly strident nature of Australian disappearance symbolism in media coverage of contemporary disappearances, such as those of Azaria Chamberlain and Peter Falconio. White Vanishing offer...
Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Contains Society's Proceedings.
