http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1286 Peter Rose: The Born-Again Barry Humphries Sat, 25 May 2013 04:30:03 GMT 2013-05-25T04:30:03Z http://dspace.flinders.edu.au:80/jspui/retrieve/3481/Dec02coverlarge.jpg http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1286 http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1461 Title: Summer Cash. "Life on the Ice" by Roff Smith. [review] Authors: Wheeler, Tony Abstract: The collapse of the Soviet Union had one quite unexpected effect on world tourism - it opened up Antarctica. Cash-strapped, post-Communist Russia could no longer afford its large collection of Antarctic bases, or the fleet of polar-equipped vessels that supplied them. Many of these ships are now chartered out to adventure travel companies. As a result, the opportunities to visit Antarctica have increased dramatically, while the cost of getting down to the ice has dropped steeply. The Antarctic visitor total is now around 15,000 tourists a year, quite apart from the personnel travelling south to the forty-odd scientific bases. Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1461 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1460 Title: Cook's Crumpet. "Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horwitz. [review] Authors: Hains, Brigid Abstract: "Into the Blue" is a rich mix of history and travelogue, sometimes too rich for easy digestion. It is long, for one thing, and the twists in mood and tone can be a little wearying. Although Horwitz could not track every part of Cook's voyages, he visits many key sites, including Tahiti, eastern Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. The book opens with verve and humour as Horwitz spends a week on the replica "Endeavour". With a journalist's ear for a telling phrase, and a vivid historical imagination, Horwitz goes on to match accounts of Cook's travels with his own. Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1460 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1457 Title: Tertiary Foes. "Radical Students: The Old Left at Sydney University" by Alan Barcan and "The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor: University of Melbourne 1935–1938" by Raymond Priestley (ed. Ronald Ridley). [review] Authors: Crennan, Michael Abstract: Many thousands of undergraduates have walked under the stilts of the Raymond Priestley Building, which forms part of Melbourne University's great wind tunnel, with no thought of the person commemorated by its name. He was, in fact, a remarkable man. His four years as Vice-Chancellor (1935–38) emerge in extraordinary detail and intimacy, thanks to this edition of his journals. If the Priestley diaries give the view of a university from the top, Alan Barcan's study of the old left at Sydney University gives it from the bottom, or at least the middle. His study spans more than four decades, commencing in the 1920s and moving on to the new left period. His work is amiable, ironic and inclusive. Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1457 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1454 Title: The Irish in Australia. "First Fleet to Federation: Irish Supremacy in Colonial Australia" by Jarlath Ronayne. [review] Authors: Reece, Bob Abstract: It was inevitable that, sooner or later, someone would write a book celebrating the achievements of the Protestant Irish in Australia. Books commemorating the part played by the Catholic Irish culminated in Patrick O'Farrell's ambit claim that they were responsible for just about everything we like to think of (or used to think of) as being distinctively Australian. Now Professor Jarlath Ronayne has given us his own hyperbolic response in the subtitle of this sumptuous publication. The best way to see the book is as a useful reminder that 'Irish' and 'Catholic' were not synonyms in colonial Australia. Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1454 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z