Teachers Notes for Wool, Wagons and Clipper Ships
Wool, Wagons and Clipper Ships (154.75 kB)
In Wool, Wagons and Clipper Ships (1830s-1880s), published by Allen and Urwin, the author, John Nicholson, describes the heyday of Australia’s export of wool to other countries, and the huge successes reaped by squatters, sheep station owners and others. It also details the many problems faced, and the issues confronted by those who were not as fortunate as their employers.
Dr Robyn Sheahan-Bright has prepared the Teachers Notes for Wool, Wagons and Clipper Ships (1830s-1880s). Dr. Sheahan-Bright's Teachers Notes reference this website as a source for students to research clipper ships and their significance to South Australia.
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About the Writers
JOHN NICHOLSON
John Nicholson is an award-winning author and illustrator, who has produced a number of children’s books for Allen and Unwin. Three of John's books, A Home among the Gum Trees, The First Fleet and Fishing for Islands, have been awarded the Children’s Council of Australia’s Eve Pownall Award for Information Books. He was trained as an architect but now writes and illustrates full-time. His books are mostly non-fiction, and he believes that 'information books' can be as exciting and adventurous as fiction.
DR ROBYN SHEAHAN-BRIGHT
Dr Robyn Sheahan-Bright operates justified text writing and publishing consultancy services, and publishes regularly on children’s literature, Australian fiction, and publishing history. She was inaugural director of and is a Life Member of the Queensland Writers Centre, and was co-founder of Jam Roll Press. Her latest publications include Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia (1946-2005) (2006) co-edited with Craig Munro, Kookaburra Shells Port Curtis Literature (2006), and Hot Iron Corrugated Sky: 100 Years of Queensland Writing (2002) co-edited with Stuart Glover. She has chapters in several textbooks including Making Books edited by David Carter and Anne Galligan (UQP, 2007) and Crossing the Boundaries edited by Michelle Anstey and Geoff Bull (Pearson Education, 2002). Her PhD thesis traced the development of the Australian children’s publishing industry, and she teaches for Griffith University (Gold Coast) and USQ.
