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Explore South Australia 2013 is the essential, full-colour travel guide and atlas to South Australia, home to the Barossa Valley and the Nullarbor Plain. With detailed information on South Australias towns, and in-depth coverage of capital city Adelaide, this comprehensive guide will help you decide...

Created especially for the Australian customer! Exciting and informative history of the land down under Australian History For Dummies is your tour guide through the important events of Australia's past, introducing you to the people and events that have shaped modern Australia. Be there...

Australia in Questions uses a question and multiple choice option format to present a chronology of Australian life throughout the period 1900 - 1999. Evenly spread over ten decades are one thousand questions and three thousand multiple choice options. For the reader it will: • Create a fun and...

Retrace Australia's role in the First World War from the trenches of Somme Mud to the wider war on the Western Front. Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates,...

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features of its history, geography, and culture since the beginning of the white settlement in New South Wales in 1788. Drawing attention to the distinctive features...

How distinctive is South Australia after all? South Australia has often been represented as "different": free of convicts, more enlightened in its attitudes toward Aboriginal people, established on rational economic principles, and progressive in its social and political development. Some...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand. It enlarges our understanding of processes of technological change and human mobility, highlighting...

What are the qualities at the heart of Australian culture? How did they arise? What distinguishes us from other nations beyond a fondness for calling each other ‘mate’? And what do such national quirks reveal about our society, our past and our attitudes towards it? Looking for Australia is a fascinating...

If youve ever thought about travelling to Australia or moving there for any reason, look before you leap! Do your homework first! Too many people go to Oz misguidedfooled by popular misconceptions. Australia teaches very harsh lessons to people like that. And once youre there, it has ways of trapping...

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include...

The Kimberley is considered by many people to be Australia’s last frontier and from a traveller’s and adventurer’s point of view no one knows it better than Ron and Viv Moon who first journeyed along a rough, narrow and nascent Gibb River Road in 1978. From the west coast around historic Broome...

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television. Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent Australians—politicians, writers, and scholars....

'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan AtkinsonThe second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement...

Discover what it’s like to grow up in Australia in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Hello! My name is Ruby, and I’m a kid just like you living in Australia. Australia is a country filled with...