Australia category: 2401 books
by Graham Seal
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. The home-grown and borrowed tales, told and re-told over generations, offer an insight into the larger national story of which every Australian has a part.
Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? What happened to Sniffling...
Lost Relations
Fortunes of my family in Australia's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
'I did not look for skeletons in my family's cupboard, but once the cupboard was open, they simply fell out.'
A widow and her eight older children are uprooted from their Hampshire farm in 1850, and thrown together on an emigrant ship with 38 distressed needlewomen from London. How they came...
Crack Hardy
From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, The True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Dando-Collins adroitly interweaves a compelling family history with the broader canvas of the Anzacs. Crack Hardy is a fine and important book.
This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia – mostly for its impact on our citizens...
by John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This book tells the story of two people who seized the opportunity to roam the highways and byways of Eastern Australia for several years, living as closely as possible to the nomadic Gypsy lifestyle while bringing the rich cultural heritage of the landless Romani to a wide variety of non-Romani people.Kate,...
by Cal McCarthy, Kevin Todd
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The 'Neva' sailed from Cork on 8 January 1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On 13 May 1835 the ship hit a reef just north of King's Island in Australia and...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Melbourne is voted one of the best city in the world. It's beautiful, mixture of modern and historical buildings.
You can go back to understand the history of Australia from this city, and travel to view the magnificent scenery of Great Ocean Road.
If you decided to travel to Melbourne,...
Let the Bums Burn
Australia's Deadliest Building Fire and the Salvation Army Tragedies
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In 1966 a fire ripped through Melbourne's William Booth Memorial Home for destitute and alcoholic men. Although it remains Australia's deadliest building fire, it is, like the 30 men who died in that fire - forgotten. This shocking narrative describes the inferno's origin and progression, the slowly...
Born in the Cattle
Aborigines in cattle country
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1987
The Aboriginal stockman in cowboy hat, brightly coloured shirt, jeans and riding boots, is a familiar sight in much of outback Australia. Yet, white Australia has largely excluded Aborigines - men and women - from its national legends.
Born in the Cattle tells the story of Aboriginal involvement...
by Jennifer Monahan
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
A postal employee escapes the 9-5 starts her own business and saves enough money to go to Australia for two months to celebrate the new millennium. This is her story.
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Camberra (Australia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Selwa Anthony, Sue Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Spirit of Australia is a positive thinking book for the whole country! A celebration of everything Australian, this little ebook is an inspirational guide for the nation, which shows how people can make a difference - to themselves, their community and their country - and keep the spirit alive.
The Secret Cold War
The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world.
Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine...
Out of the Silence
The history and memory of South Australia's frontier wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would...