Leonie stevens (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Research by the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse indicates that five million Australians have smoked marijuana. One million regulars smoke 120,000 kilograms a year. If all of this were rolled into one joint it would be so much bigger than the biggest joint you have ever seen that you would need to smoke two big joints just to deal with the concept of its incredible bigness. Only a small percentage of the marijuana for this megajoint would be imported. It is an Australian success story. Laws vary greatly across the country. In South Australia and the ACT possession of small amounts for personal use is not a crime. In Queensland possession of an Orchy bottle can be. Finally, understand the subject. Marijuana has as many different grades and efects as it has names. Water stains to some pages. 214 pages.…

[10]+165pp. 8vo. Original wrappers, a very good copy. First edition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Stamps and stickers on inside pages. Partial date due slip now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Interior and binding are still very good. Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race. The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian and world history. The men, women, and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed to speak for themselves. This book aims to change that. Penned by the exiles during their fifteen years at the settlement called Wybalenna, items in the Flinders Island Chronicle, sermons, letters, and petitions offer a compelling corrective to traditional portrayals of a hopeless, dispossessed, illiterate people's final days. The exiles did not see themselves as prisoners, but as a Free People. Seen through their own writing, the community at Wybalenna was vibrant, complex, and evolving. Rather than a depressed people simply waiting for death, their own words reveal a politically astute community engaged in a fifteen-year campaign for their own freedom: one which was ultimately successful. This is a compelling story that will profoundly affect understandings of Tasmanian and Australian history. (back cover). …

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 22pp. Fine. Contributions by Cynthia Lovelace, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Eugene Vance, John R. Nash, Gerard Delaney, Robert Mezey, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Alarik Skarstrom, James E. Swan, John Haag, and Kim Kurt.