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Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 Miegunyah Press Series
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Miegunyah Press Series takes its name from Miegunyah, the home of Lady Mab and Sir Russell Grimwade; it was made possible by bequests under their wills.

The Grimwade bequest enabled MUP to publish eighteen Miegunyah Press titles between 1967 and 1994. The list is strong in Australian history, maritime history, natural history and biography. (Adapted from the publisher's website: http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/Miegunyah.html)

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y separately published work icon Georgiana : A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer Brenda Niall , Carlton South : Melbourne University Press Miegunyah Press , 1994 Z939915 1994 single work biography
y separately published work icon Lyrebird Rising : Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962 Jim Davidson , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1994 Z1179836 1994 single work biography 'Lyrebird Rising re-creates the ambience of Melbourne in the twenties, Paris in the thirties, and London in the fifties; it also discusses expatriatism, explores the paths open to a dynamic woman at the time, and examines the changes in musical taste that were set in motion by the rise of musicology, radio, and the gramophone record.' (Libraries Australia summary)
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y separately published work icon Russell Grimwade J. R. Poynter , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1967 Z1368190 1967 single work biography Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1967
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y separately published work icon Mariners are Warned! : John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843 Marsden C. Hordern , Carlton : Melbourne University Press Miegunyah Press , 1989 Z1065913 1989 single work biography Carlton : Melbourne University Press Miegunyah Press , 1989
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y separately published work icon Australian Children's Books : A Bibliography : Volume One 1788-1972 Marcie Muir , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1992 Z368810 1992 single work bibliography While it covers the same period (1788-1972) as Muir's two-volume bibliography, published in 1970 and 1976, this work is described by the author as 'not just an updated edition' of the earlier work. It involved an 'integration and revision' of the two original volumes as well as the incorporation of new material. Muir worked in close co-operation with Kerry White, author of the companion volume, Australian Children's Books : A Bibliography : Volume Two 1973-1988, ensuring a 'common process of arrangement, description, and so on' and a uniformity of 'standards, methods and definitions. Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1992
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y separately published work icon Australian Children's Books : A Bibliography : Volume Two 1973-1988 Kerry White , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1992 Z368920 1992 single work bibliography Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1992
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y separately published work icon A World That Was : The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia. Catherine H. Berndt (editor), Ronald M. Berndt (editor), Ronald M. Berndt (translator), Catherine H. Berndt (translator), John E. Stanton , Carlton : Melbourne University Press Miegunyah Press , 1993 Z190969 1993 anthology short story poetry

'This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia.

In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged Ronald Berndt to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on their story to future generations.

A World That Was encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Not least, it is a record of the dramatic changes following European colonization.'

Source: UBC Press website http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/index.html (Sighted: 24/01/2011)

 Vancouver : UBC Press , 1993
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y separately published work icon A World That Was : The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia. Catherine H. Berndt (editor), Ronald M. Berndt (editor), Ronald M. Berndt (translator), Catherine H. Berndt (translator), John E. Stanton , Carlton : Melbourne University Press Miegunyah Press , 1993 Z190969 1993 anthology short story poetry

'This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia.

In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged Ronald Berndt to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on their story to future generations.

A World That Was encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Not least, it is a record of the dramatic changes following European colonization.'

Source: UBC Press website http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/index.html (Sighted: 24/01/2011)

 Carlton : Melbourne University Press Miegunyah Press , 1993

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y separately published work icon Miegunyah Press Series : Second Series Miegunyah Press (publisher), 1995- Z1014067 1995- series - publisher In 1995 The Miegunyah Press became a separate imprint of MUP, and its distinctive window logo appears on all books published in the second series. Titles in the second series include a colophon page at the end of the book that lists the book's editor and designer, the typeface used in the text, the paper on which it is printed, the name of the printer and the number of copies printed. (Adapted from the publisher's website: http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/Miegunyah.html)
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