Australia category: 2401 books
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Do you want a getaway, to somewhere peaceful and quiet, while modern and city-like. It's non other than Brisbane Australia!
It's voted one of the best cities in Australia, with beautiful schools, buildings, rivers and architecture. If you like beaches, Gold Coast is just an hour's car journey...
by Rachel Henning
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Set in the mid 1850s, the story of Rachel Henning's voyage to Australia is told through the letters she writes to family and friends.
Rachel Henning (1826–1914) was born in England. In 1854 she went to Australia, but returned to England in 1856 due to homesickness and the...
First Footprints
The epic story of the First Australians
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the plains and enormous crocodiles, giant snakes and goannas nestled in the estuaries and savannahs.
First...
by Jeannie Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
John Flynn was a man with a dream. The outback of Australia was a land of risk and adventure. It was also a land of isolation and danger.Flynn wanted to create a “mantle of safety” across the outback. He set up hospitals, hostels, nursing homes and welfare centres, and created the world’s first...
by Ed Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
When the railways finally came to Australia, they created new towns and alleviated the isolation of the outback. In the cities they enabled the growth of commuter belt suburbs. Railways reached their pinnacle in the 1950s, but have been disadvantaged by sparse population, low density cities, motor vehicles,...
by Rathbun, Linda Lee, Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
If you enjoy a short break or a holiday away from urban centres and want to journey into the real Australia, or if you are a more experienced 4WD enthusiast, then this book is for you! Linda and Steven selected getaways in each state and territory that the whole family can enjoy. For every 4WD trail...
by Johnathan Ottway
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
A very large country, Australia is ideal for backpacking but it can be a little challenging due to this size, along with the often hot temperatures and a number of challenging , dangerous animals to contend with. Moreover, deciding where to backpack is essential to avoid chewing up your budget and...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Melbourne : (Australia) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Melbourne : (Australia) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Melbourne : (Australia) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
The Spy Catchers
The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the...
Imperial Theory and Colonial Pragmatism
Charles Harper, Economic Development and Agricultural Co-operation in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements. In the case of colonial Western Australia, the story of agricultural co-operation is inseparable...
Troubled Waters
Borders, boundaries and possession in the Timor Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Joint winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2003.
Troubled Waters tells the story of Australia's northern waters and their dramatic transformation in the twentieth century from a backwater to the most militarised and fiercely guarded region in Australia. Once a bridge between two...
by Albert F. Calvert
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The Aborigines of Western Australia
By Albert F. Calvert
Albert Frederick Calvert (1872-1946) wrote The Aborigines of Western Australia (1892) and Granada, Present and Bygone (1908). "Any attempt to fathom the depth of mystery which surrounds the history of the Australian Aboriginal must...
Australia—Where to Now?
What Bible prophecy reveals for the land down under
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Anglo-Saxons are a forgetful people. It was ever so, from their beginnings as a collection of tribes, morphing over time into the most influential of nations on Earth. So it is that in the great debate over whether or not Australia should become a republic, the true origins of the nation—the real...
by John Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance,...