Australia category: 2401 books
by John Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
From the iconic poems of Bonjo Paterson to todays international bestsellers by Peter Carey and Bryce Courtenay, Australian literature has reflected the changes in Australias national development until today it stands proudly on the world stage. At the same time, indigenous writing has come into its own,...
by William Hovell, Hamilton Hume
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This is the journal of the two famous explorers who travelled the inland route to Port Phillip, Australia, in 1824.
The Hume and Hovell expedition was one of the most important journeys of explorations undertaken in eastern Australia. In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas...
Australians
Thomas Keneally
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In this volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold...
The Luck of the Irish
How a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 1835. Miraculously all survived, guided to safety by local Aboriginal people.
They landed at a...
by Richard Cox
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
William Cox (17641837) was a soldier, road builder, and pioneering pastoralist in the colony of New South Wales. He made his name building the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814. In just over six months, his team of 30 convicts hacked out 163 kilometres of road through appalling terrain, without...
by Vicky Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
A collection of short, personal experiences Vicky Gray and her family encountered during the first year of their new life Down Under. In addition to entertaining diary entries, inspirational stories from other expats, top tips and vital resources, the book is crammed full of well-researched information...
Vanda & Young
Inside Australia's Hit Factory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Featuring revealing interviews with the members of AC/DC and other chart-topping acts, this chronicle profiles the careers of Australia’s top songwriters, producers, and star-makers: Harry Vanda and George Young. From their partnership as members of Easybeats to their diverse range of hits-including...
Seriously...You Have to Laugh
Great yarns and tall tales from the sporting fields, dressing rooms and commentary boxes of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms, bars and commentary boxes of Australia.
From the clever sledges behind the bales and the...
The Best Australian Yarns
and other true stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humour and anecdotes--the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates and other colourful characters from all parts of Australia and all walks of life.
This...
A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal
Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
New edition of the bestselling history that traces the chequered story of 100 women transported together in 1829 to Sydney. Includes new information on the women and treatment of convicts and new illustrations. Intrigued to discover a convict ancestor in her family tree Babette Smith decided to investigate...
by Frank Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
'thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' - The Sun Herald
An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.
In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn't even have an officer...
Mutiny on the Bounty
A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.
Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit...
by John Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
A powerful and very different account of war and its effect on those who fight
The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both...
by Edward Kanze
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
"Edward Kanze offers a superb chronicle of the nature of Australia in all the meanings of the word. You won't be able to read it without calling your travel agent." - Bill McKibben. Over nine adventurous months, Edward and Debbie Kanze drove an old station wagon 25,000 miles around Australia,...