Goldie the Eagle’s Long Flight Through Regent’s Park
A British tale of a captive eagle named Goldie escaping and roaming London for 12 days. Police, zoo staff, and press chased the bird through Regent’s Park while viewers watched on TV. Goldie finally returned to the zoo, later killed a duck near the American Ambassador’s residence, and ended the sensational chase amid public fascination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jongiil Antony
Birds of Prey
Regent's Park
Goldie
Baby
Regem
Finland
BBC
House of Commons
Zoo
Frese
London Fire Brigade
PRO
Zo0
Joe McCorry
Fleet Street
Punjab
Britain
London
Noble tribute to Flinders' skill
The Libraries Board of South Australia has issued photo graphic facsimiles of rare books and pamphlets to celebrate Flinders. The collection honors inland exploration and serves students and Australiana enthusiasts by preserving classic works for study and enjoyment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flinders
Libraries Board of
South Australia
Australia’s early works gain new facsimile editions
A review notes two Australiana Facsimile Editions add to publishing history. Cunningham’s 1827 New South Wales narrative offers vivid colonial life and convict views, while West’s History of Tasmania (1852) traces land grants, aborigines, transportation, and democracy. Flinders voyage book reprints with atlas celebrate 18th century exploration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunningham
Australia
New South Wales
Hunter
Piper John Jamison
Rman
Sydney
England
Darling
West
Tasmania
Norfolk Island
Adelaide
Flinders
Bligh
Pacific
Cook
Sir John Franklin
Arctic
Australian
Port Jackson
Reliance
George Bass
Lincolnshire
Bass Strait
Sayers revisits David Syme in a balanced Life of The Age founder
C E Sayers crafts a largely objective biography of David Syme, founder of The Age, detailing his rise from immigrant to press power broker. The work weighs Syme’s integrity against controversial editorial tactics, and assesses early Australian political journalism and the paper’s role before Federation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pratt
London
Syme
Bourne
Victoria
The
Age
Labour Party
Sayers
Literature books and guides featured in Australian study edition
A group of writers critics publishers and readers met at the University of New South Wales for a summer school on Australian literature. The edition highlights Sir Joseph Banks by H Cameron collected poems by A D Hope The Golfer's Bedside Book and The Yacht Man's Bedside Book edited by Frank Snoxell and Donald Steel with remarks on their value and availability at PaO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Literary Australia
Clement Sommier
Derek Whitelock
University of New South Wales
Australia
Joseph Banks
H. Cameron
Banks
Captain Cook
South Seas
Royal Garden
Kew
Spain
A. D. Hope
Donald Steel
Frank Snoxell
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Frewe
Epport
Framing CO
Douglas Pike
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Violette Leduc
la Batarde
Jane Grant
Gore Vidal E
City and
the Piller
Verity Hewitt
Garema Arcade
Adelaide Festival OF
Matthew Flinders
By L. F. Fitzhardinge
D. W.A. Baker
P. Cunningham
Board of South Australia
J. West
Libraries Board of South. Australia
Tne
Launceston
Sydney Morning Herald
Tayman
Ploration
Cape Leeuwin
Torres Strait
Gulf of Carpentaria
Timor
Souith
Tasman
Investigator
Barrier Reef
China
Mauritius
France
Bass
Hook
J. A. Lanauze
David Syme
C. E. Sayers
Cheshire
Ambrose Pratt
National Library
Joseph Cowen Syme
Lord Hopetoun
Whitehall
Sir William Lyne
Reid
Deakin
Ballarat
Red
Pao
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