Napoleon’S History of Australia

Napoleon’S History of Australia
Author :
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 192
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781514446829
ISBN-13 : 1514446820
Rating : 4/5 (820 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Napoleon’S History of Australia by : D. Y. Gilbert

Download or read book Napoleon’S History of Australia written by D. Y. Gilbert and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foray into historical faction starting with a real-life English emigrant, Napoleon Gilbert, ancestor of Ms Gilbert, born in 1799 who immigrated with his family to Tasmania in the late 1820s.This family saga spans five generations, rags to riches and back again, farming and convict labour in Tasmania, butchering meat for Victorian goldminers, Darling Downs squattocracy, Ballarat and Melbourne Architect, genteel Melbourne society, the 1890 crash, Prussian farmers in Ipswich, the First World War, death and poverty in Port Pirie and scandalous unwed motherhood in Adelaide. The connecting thread is the fact that all the Gilbert sons had Napoleon as their middle name, ending the authors father, Melbourne Napoleon Gilbert. It is an entertaining and novel way of writing history, proving that fact is stranger than fiction. ***


Napoleon’S History of Australia Related Books

Napoleon's Australia
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Terry Smyth
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-20 - Publisher: Random House Australia

GET EBOOK

'A fascinating insight into French ambition and amity in Australia, bursting with joie de vivre' – David Hunt, bestselling author of Girt In the northern wint
Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Nicole Starbuck
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconst
Napoleon’S History of Australia
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: D. Y. Gilbert
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-07 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

GET EBOOK

A foray into historical faction starting with a real-life English emigrant, Napoleon Gilbert, ancestor of Ms Gilbert, born in 1799 who immigrated with his famil
Napoleon
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Ted Gott
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the storm
Betsy and the Emperor
Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: Anne Whitehead
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-01 - Publisher: Allen & Unwin

GET EBOOK

After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most pow