Ernest Giles (1835–1897)
Autor/a de Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: William Ernest Powell Giles (7 July 1835 – 13 November 1897). Wikimedia Commons.
Obres de Ernest Giles
A trip west of the Peake 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Giles, Ernest
- Nom oficial
- Giles, William Ernest Powell
- Data de naixement
- 1835-07-07
- Data de defunció
- 1897-11-13
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Coolgardie cemetery, Western Australia
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Australia
- Llocs de residència
- Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Coolgardie, Western Australia, Australia
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Educació
- Christ's Hospital School (London)
- Professions
- explorer
- Organitzacions
- Royal Geographical Society
- Premis i honors
- Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
Knight of the Crown of Italy
Membres
Ressenyes
Australia Twice Traversed (Illustrated Edition)… de Ernest Giles
Not for everyone, but a really absorbing story of Australia's early explorers. Giles gave his all to "discovering" the wilderness of Australia, and never really got truly rewarded for his troubles. 130 years on, his writings capture a time of opportunity and longing, of man's desire for open space and discovery, and also for the bonds that form between old and young, white and black, despite social pressures. It's not perfect, and nor was Giles, but it's another important text in the country's development.… (més)
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Premis
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 6
- Membres
- 45
- Popularitat
- #340,917
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 21