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Melbourne & Victoria
Lonely Planet Melbourne & Victoria is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover Melbourne's laneways and arcades, soak up spectacular scenery along the Great Ocean Road, or enjoy food, wine and the great outdoors in one of Victoria's goldfield-era country towns; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Melbourne & Victoria and begin your journey now!
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Yemen
Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another-links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth-then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements.
Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen's history before examining the country's role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader.
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Indigenous Mobilities
\"This edited collection focuses on Aboriginal and Māori travel in colonial contexts. Authors in this collection examine the ways that Indigenous people moved and their motivations for doing so. Chapters consider the cultural aspects of travel for Indigenous communities on both sides of the Tasman. Contributors examine Indigenous purposes for mobility, including for community and individual economic wellbeing, to meet other Indigenous or non-Indigenous peoples and experience different cultures, and to gather knowledge or experience, or to escape from colonial intrusion. ‘This volume is the first to take up three challenges in histories of Indigenous mobilities. First, it analyses both mobility and emplacement. Challenging stereotypes of Indigenous people as either fixed or mobile, chapters deconstruct issues with ramifications for contemporary politics and analyses of Indigenous society and of rural and national histories. As such, it is a welcome intervention in a wide range of urgent issues. Second, by examining Indigenous peoples in both Australia and New Zealand, this volume is an innovative step in removing the artificial divisions that have arisen from “national” histories. Third, the collection connects the experiences of colonised Indigenous peoples with those of their colonisers, shifting the long-held stereotypes of Indigenous powerlessness. Chapters then convincingly demonstrate the agency of colonised peoples in shaping the actions and the mobility itself of the colonisers. While the volume overall is aimed at opening up new research questions, and so invites later and even more innovative work, this volume will stand as an important guide to the directions such future work might take.’ — Heather Goodall, Professor Emerita, UTS\"
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Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 : & more leaves, 1862-1882
This edited volume offers an intimate view of the most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and of the Highlands and demonstrates her intense interest in all corners of her realm and in the lives of individuals from all classes of society.
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Indigenous stories. Season 4, episode 9, Indigenous cooking in Victoria
Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk travels to Victoria, British Columbia, where she learns to cook an Indigenous meal with Cree-Metis Executive Private Chef Shirley Lang.
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Seeing Canada. Season 4, episode 8, Indigenous cooking in Victoria and a Sunshine Coast adventure in British Columbia
Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk travels to Victoria, British Columbia, where she learns to cook an Indigenous meal with Cree-Metis Executive Private Chef Shirley Lang. Then Brandy travels to the Sunshine Coast, where she takes a helicopter ride with Sunshine Coast Air, visits the Bricker Cider Company and meets Indigenous artist Levi Purjue.
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Gender Notes: Wilderness Unfinished
Men and women tell their stories in fundamentally different ways. The structure of women’s narrative has been subverted, as the content has been suppressed, through the course of cultural evolution from classical to contemporary expression of human experience. Nowhere is this more evident than in writings of wilderness travel, but as male designs give way to female imperatives, not only are the forms Of narrative changing. But the very notion of wilderness itself is being refigured. Histrionic tales of conquest and endurance are being displaced by accounts of making connections with the natural world. A close reading of books by Victoria Jason and Don Starkell about overlapping Arctic expeditions clarifies the argument: in the female account, meaning gives way to being, the wilderness is rescued from metaphor, narrative celebrates the object perceived, not the subject perceiving.
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