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  • Fort Dundas

    The British in North Australia 1824-29

    by Derek Pugh ...
    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 February, 1829, when it was abandoned and left to the termites.The fort's purpose was twofold. Firstly, it was a physical demonstration of Britain's claim to the New Holland continent as ... Read more

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  • Port Essington

    The British in North Australia 1838-49

    by Derek Pugh ...
    For many of the Royal Marines sent to Port Essington, life was a living hell of malaria, scurvy, termites, shipwrecks, cyclones, boredom, isolation and death. For one man, it was the 'most useless, ill-managed hold in Her Majesty's dominions' which deserved 'all the abuse that has ever been heaped upon it'.But it wasn't always so: in the beginning, French visitors shared their best Bordeaux wines ... Read more

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  • Darwin: End of an Era - 1900-1910

    by Derek Pugh ...
    What does it mean to live in a place no one else believed in? Then known as Palmerston, Darwin at the dawn of the 20th century was a remote and volatile frontier town considered a white elephant by its distant government. Cyclones raged, supplies were scarce, and the promised railway never came. But despite the struggles, many Territorians chose to stay, clinging to the boundless possibilities ... Read more

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  • Hanged

    Execution in the Top End

    by Derek Pugh ...
    Since the 1930s, women have been champions and pioneers in the game of cricket - but their stories remain largely untold. This book celebrates some of our greatest cricket players - Belinda Clark, Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy - while paying homage to the women who came before. Learn the story of Emily Whatman bowling overs to her young son, Don Bradman, in the backyard of their home ... Read more

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  • Escape Cliffs

    The First Northern Territory Expedition 1864-66

    by Derek Pugh ...
    This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and extraordinary bushmanship, amid government bungling and Aboriginal resistance, during South Australia's first attempt at colonising their Northern Territory in 1864.The South Australians wanted their state to be the premier state of Australia. The new ... Read more

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  • Fort Wellington

    The British in North Australia 1827-29

    by Derek Pugh ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Darwin 1869

    The Second Northern Territory Expedition

    by Derek Pugh ...
    Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the governance of South Australia. Land was sold to investors, unseen and unsurveyed and in an unknown location. The sales raised the funds needed to found the new colony of Palmerston, the future capital of the Northern Territory of South Australia. The First ... Read more

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  • Darwin: Survival of a City - The 1890s

    by Derek Pugh ...
    The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia's Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of mining, pastoralism, and agriculture suffered from downturn, disease and distance. The South Australians had had enough of their 'white elephant' and, when Palmerston blew away in the Great Hurricane of 1897, the calls for the Northern Territory's return to the ... Read more

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  • Turn Left at the Devil Tree

    by Derek Pugh ...
    Accompanied by Turkey, his little 'hunting' dog, Derek Pugh founded several outstation schools in the most remote parts of Arnhem Land and gained a rare insight into a traditional way of life which has been witnessed by only a few outsiders.By turns reflective, tragic and hilarious, Turn Left at the Devil Tree is a memoir of a visiting teacher among the Indigenous people and wildlife of the Top ... Read more

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  • The Ragged Thirteen

    Territory Bushrangers

    by Derek Pugh ...
    In 1886, a notorious gang of horsemen wreaked havoc on the Overlanders' Trail that stretched across the Northern Territory into the wild Kimberley region. They stole cattle with audacity, brazenly held up pubs and cattle stations, and drove a herd of stolen horses with unmatched daring. As part of the Halls Creek goldrush, these men became infamous as the Ragged Thirteen.Dubbed by some as the 'Tea ... Read more

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  • Darwin: Growth of a City

    The 1880s

    by Derek Pugh ...
    The 1880s started with a boom in Palmerston and the Top End. South Australian investors flocked to put their money into gold mines, sugar and coffee plantations, and the pastoral industry. Cattle stations bigger than a British county were carved out of the bush. The Overland Telegraph Line stretched across the continent, and the Top End was alive with Aborigines, explorers, agriculturalists, ... Read more

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  • Twenty to the Mile

    The Overland Telegraph Line

    by Derek Pugh ...
    The greatest engineering problem facing Australia - the tyranny of distance - had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the sheep-farming colony of South Australia.In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the centre of the continent from Port Augusta to Darwin. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long and using 36,000 poles at '20 ... Read more

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