Australia category: 2401 books
Blue Smoke
The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918–1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Bringing to life the musical worlds of New Zealanders both at home and out on the town, this history chronicles the evolution of popular music in New Zealand during the 20th century. From the kiwi concert parties during World War I and the arrival of jazz to the rise of swing, country, the Hawaiian...
by Nicholas Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
From the renowned British author of The Dancer Upstairs comes this “meticulous, lyrical history” of the remote island and his family’s connection to it (Publishers Weekly).
Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the best English novelists of our time,” Nicholas Shakespeare decided...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
The Birth of Melbourne is a spectacular anthology of contemporary writings giving a vivid insight into the history of Melbourne.
In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough...
In Search of Captain Moonlite
Bushranger, conman, warrior, lunatic
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
When a masked and cloaked bandit robbed the bank at a small gold town in 1869 he created the legend of Captain Moonlite, the gun-toting man of God who enthralled and appalled the nation for more than a decade.
Real name Andrew George Scott, he is remembered as bushranger, conman, warrior and...
Diggers, Hatters & Whores
The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
**The social history of New Zealand's gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries.**A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the general reader it's accessibly written in a clear, clean and...
by Heather Rossiter
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Antarctic Diaries of the Heroic Era
Imperfect records yet the best available as exemplified by the 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson, Western Base party, Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The centenary of the departure of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), celebrated...
Van Diemen's Women
A History of Transportation to Tasmania
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
On September 2, 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land, with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On December 3, the ship arrived into Hobart. While the book looks at the lives of all the women, it focuses on two women in particular; Eliza Davis, who was...
A Woman of Good Character
Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Between the 1840s and 1880s, thousands of young single women came to New Zealand as assisted migrants from Britain and Ireland. In this detailed study of forgotten lives, Charlotte Macdonald highlights the experiences and identities of a vitally important migrant group, one previously overshadowed by...
No Fretful Sleeper
A Life of Bill Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Outlining the career of one of New Zealand’s most distinguished fiction writers and sharpest critics, this fascinating narrative details the life and work of Bill Pearson. Beginning with his difficult childhood in a society dominated by the New Zealand working man, this gripping biography follows...
Extra! Extra!
How the People Made the News
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
From the mid-19th-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the 20th-century dominance of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star, the story of Auckland's newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals much about the history of the people and the press in New...
A Press Achieved
The Emergence of Auckland University Press 19271972
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Written by a former managing editor who is also a distinguished writer, this book charts the origins of the Auckland University Press up to its formal recognition in 1972. It provides a valuable document in the history of the book in New Zealand, an intriguing view of university politics and administration, and glimpses of New Zealand culture in the making.
Omoo
A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Melville’s continuing adventures in the South Seas
Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles...
by Colin McPhedran
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder...
by Ian Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Arawata Bill (18651947) was a pioneering folk hero. He spent decades in the unforgiving mountain country of New Zealands South Island, prospecting for gold and other minerals and making new tracks in unexplored areas. His astonishing feats of endurance and tenacity, coupled with his charming eccentricity,...