Australia category: 2401 books
The Making of Australia
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A chronological account the main periods and events in the Australian story that traces the forces that have shaped the nation from the coming of the first Aborigines to the election of the Abbott government in 2013. The content is political, social and economic, showing how these strands of Australian...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
A collection of powerful, true stories of Aboriginal life This anthology brings together 15 memoirs of growing up Aboriginal in Australia and includes works from Kim Scott, Australia's first indigenous Miles Franklin winner; bestselling author Sally Morgan; and the critically acclaimed artist, author,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
This work investigates the roots and evolution of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and the circumstances that have shaped Australian maritime policy since WWII. Its primary purpose is to provide present day policy experts with historical insights useful to the planning of future relationships with...
Griffith Review 48
Enduring Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In the year that marks the centenary of the battle at Gallipoli and the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies switches the focus from the battles to the long shadow of the great wars of the twentieth century.
In Enduring Legacies, eminent Australian...
by Alastair Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
'Like its predecessor, the book is notable for its dash and enthusiasm, coupled with the photographer's instinct for the exotic and eccentric.' Sunday Times
'…another compelling bit of reading.' The Oxford Times
Here is the sequel to Alastair Scott's highly acclaimed Scot Free, which left...
by Tim Flannery
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
The author of the #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, provides a stunning portrait of Australia’s cultural capital.
Sydney, Australia, is one of the world’s most beautiful and fascinating cities, home to over five million people and a popular tourist destination. In The Birth of...
by James Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two years old. He left behind family, good friends and the mysterious 'C.P.', a young woman with whom he hoped...
by Mitchell Rolls, Murray Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
The Australian Aborigines first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago. They almost certainly landed on the northwest coast by sea from the nearby islands of the Indonesian archipelago. That first arrival may have been replicated many times over. The following exploration and settlement...
Botany Bay
Where histories meet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place chosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia.
In this remarkable history, Maria Nugent takes her readers...
Jeremy Kane
A Canadian historical adventurenovel of the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion and its brutal aftermath in the Australian penal colonies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
“JEREMY KANE: A Canadian Historical Adventure Novel Of The 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion And Its Brutal Aftermath In The Australian Penal Colonies.”
A young Ontario rebel's adventures in love, politics, and war, amidst violent events that helped shape Canada's early nationhood. Romantically...
Jungle Warriors
From Tobruk to Kokoda and beyond, how the Australian Army became the world's most deadly jungle fighting force
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Australians are acknowledged as being among the best, if not the best, jungle fighters in the world. So how did the Australian Army transform itself from a military force totally unprepared for conflict of any kind in 1939 into a professional, experienced and highly skilled jungle warfare force by...
East - A Novel
The Vince Osbourne Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
"... in a word: astonishing." - V. Scipione, US Literary Agent
"The writing is superb ... If there is any writer that Hoskins reminds me of it would be John Steinbeck. But instead of Northern California and the Salinas Valley, we get to explore Australia and New Zealand."...
by Dorothy Gilding
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
“There were dead men everywhere, and a good number of our cavalry. We passed Fritz artillery with dead horses attached to their limbers. I come across a wounded Fritz. He was just a young boy and our tanks had run over him. A crew of five had a gun mounted in a shell-hole and the tank had flattened...
by Will Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Everybody knows that Mr. Dyson, who has made these striking sketches of the great war in which he has himself been wounded, originally became famous as a caricaturist, probably the most original caricaturist of our time. To some it may even need a word of further explanation adequately to connect...