Australia category: 2401 books
Hamilton Hume
Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as...
Castaway
The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo. Around the eastern...
by John Darkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions: to observe the transit of Venus and to find and chart the mythical Great Southern Land. He succeeded in both tasks, despite he and his...
The Voices of War
Australians Tell Their Stories From World War I to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Drawn from engagements ranging from World War I through to operations in East Timor and Iraq, these stories are taken from the Australians at War Film Archive, a collection of the memories of more than 2000 Australians who have served, both on the front line and at home. Some are unbelievably, unbearably...
by Vicken Babkenian, Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became...
Terra Australis Incognita
The Spanish Quest for the mysterious Great South Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait and very possibly the...
Stealth Raiders
A Few Daring Men in 1918
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
In 1918 a few daring low-ranking Australian infantrymen, alone among all the armies on the Western Front, initiated stealth raids without orders. These stealth raiders killed Germans, captured prisoners and advanced the line, sometimes by thousands of yards. They were held in high regard by other...
by Geoffrey Blomfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The End of the DancingThe massacre of a peaceful peopleIn this unique book, Geoffrey Blomfield has set out to tell the complete story of black-white relations in a small and manageable area the “Falls Country” around the headwaters of the Manning, Macleay and Hastings Rivers on the south eastern...
Fighting the Kaiserreich
Australia's Epic Within the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book portrays a modern epic - of an army that sailed across the world to fight a war. Its struggle with the Kaiserreich (German empire) became the most formidable campaign Australian troops have ever fought. By the time Monash's soldiers broke through the Hindenburg Line, their achievement and...
by Nicolas Rothwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
This is the story of a quest – a journey down the red highway. On returning from a war zone, Nicolas Rothwell begins to explore the deserts and towns, sleepy coastline and hidden worlds of Australia’s north. As he travels, his journey gathers momentum and finds a shape. He has unforgettable, even...
The Vietnam Years
From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Vietnam War was the longest and most divisive war in our history. Almost 60,000 Australians served and more than 500 were killed. At home, thousands protested against the war and conscription and hundreds were sent to jail. THE VIETNAM YEARS is the story of both sides of that war, from the vicious...
Maralinga
The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
The facts are shocking. The treachery is chilling. The fallout ongoing.
This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light...
True North
The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Awards, Australian History Prize, 2012
Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2012
Shortlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards, Biography of the Year, 2013
Shortlisted, WA Premier's Book Awards, 2012
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack...
by Tom Frame
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the recent finding of her wreck.
On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the light cruiser Sydney, fought a close-quarters battle with the German armed raider HSK Kormoran off Carnarvon on the West...