The Eye of the Storm’s Study of Love and Death
Patrick White’s Eye of the Storm probes love and death through Elizabeth Hunter’s tyrannical rule and the conspiratorial return of her heir and Dorothy. The novel threads relationships, mortality, and the journey to transcendence as it follows wealth, power, and the quest for meaning in a godless world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Voss
Othe
Arthur
Waldo Brown
White
Mary de Santis
Erea
Elizabeth Hunter
Sir Basil Hunter
Dorothy
Princesse de Lascabanes
Australia
House of Hunter
Elizabeth Humter
Izabeth Hunter
Elizabeth
Santo
Pont
Stan Parker
Arthur Brown
Kabbarli Daisy Bates memoir honors a pale spirit
Ernestine Hill profiles Daisy Bates, called Kabbarli meaning grandmother, beloved by the Aboriginal people she lived with for over 50 years. Bates learned their language, documented myths, and was first woman admitted to their councils, while she maintained kindness and resisted assimilation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernestine Hill
Sivisation
Emesime Hill
Mrs Bates
Daisy Bates
Kabbarli
Angus and Robertson
Captain of the Escorts remains a Bold Naval Tale
Dudley Pope’s Governor Ramage, RN follows Captain Ramage of the destroyer escorts through perilous convoy duties. A mysterious brig Topaz challenges him as storms surge and buried treasure rumors swirl. Reviewer Peter Rusbridge notes humane restraint amid peril and intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topaz
Murder in the Blue Mountains tale of Butler exiled
The article recounts the life of Frank Butler, likely Richard Ashe, an English mariner turned Australian criminal who murdered three men in the Blue Mountains area during a 1896-97 crime spree. Pursued across oceans, he was captured aboard the Swashilda in San Francisco and brought to Sydney, where he was hanged in July 1897. The piece notes sensational press coverage, public fascination, and the high extradition costs of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler
Richard Ashe
Maitland
Australia
Australin O
Sydney
Sydney Morning Herald
Bathurst Plains
Burgess
Preston
Weller
Parkes
Blue Mountains
San Francisco
Newcastle Harbour
Joseph Chamberlain
Foreign Office
London
John Want
Sana
Chamberlain
Want
The
Iner
Mariposa
Gropings into History and Australian Biography Review
A critical review surveys E A Beever’s history of Australia's oldest savings bank and its regional growth, praising his vigilance while faulting his rigidity and selective use of founder expectations. It condemns Mountford and Murray for overly long, scattershot narratives and Alfred Stirling’s ego-driven prose, deeming some works verbose trivia and others more valuable archival material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
E. A. Beever
Tasmania
Mountford
James Murray
Murray
Melbourne
Sydney
Mt Rennie
Alfred Stirling
South Africa
Holland
Italy
Philippines
Scott
Gerrode Ogee
Abel Tasman
Xhosa Tales From the African Veld by Sir Robert Thredgold
The Rhodesian figure Sir Robert Thredgold presents Xhosa Tales From the African Veld a memoir style book about his African companion Xhosa known as Mhosa in the Matabele language. The work mixes country life bush life and animal lore with a personal tribute to loyalty friendship and the harshness of life in the veld. The critic compares the writing to Kipling and notes a nostalgic idealisation of Xhosa and the African wilderness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland
Sir Robert Thredgold
Central Africa
Tan Smith
Sir Robert
Rhodesia
Siris
Robert
Basia
Nhosa
George Allen & Unwin Ltd
London
S. Richardson
Kipling
Wolf Coe Inet
Mhosa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Patrick White
Gome
Cape
Ane
Europe
Kit Or
Moreton Drive
Wetreilea Handbook
Ross
New Zeeland
Carr
Canberra
Austrefien Infermeton
Calender
Norman Lindsay
Jane
Springwood
Rose Lindsay
Ramage, RN
Dudley Pope
Secker & Warburg
Peter Rusbridge
Frank Butler
Pacific
England
Robert Travers
Coolgardie
Buter
Francisco
Hutchinson
Brian Jeffrey
Charles Sawyer
Mother
Buller
Tee Weller
Quibell
Darlinghurst
Hhis
Darlingburn Gaal
Truth
Howard
Raho Trees Gomritten
Beever
C. P. Mountford
Moow
Outback
Launceston Bank For Savings
Melbourne University Press
Monty
Max Lamshed
Rigby
Larrikins
Lansdowne
Hawthorn
Humphrey McQueen
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