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by Dona Herweck Rice
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
The Great Barrier Reef is a special place. Come see the coral. Look at colorful sea creatures. Australia's underwater attraction is waiting for you. Along the way, you'll learn place value! This nonfiction math book combines math and reading skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to...
Vietnam
The Australian War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
For the first time this is the full story of Australia's involvement in our longest military campaign 'Surely God weeps,' an Australian soldier wrote in despair of the conflict in Vietnam. But no God intervened to shorten the years of carnage and devastation in this most controversial of wars. the...
Tracks
One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The incredible true story of one woman’s solo adventure across the Australian outback, accompanied by her faithful dog and four unpredictable camels.
I arrived in the Alice at five a.m. with a dog, six dollars and a small suitcase full of inappropriate clothes. . . . There are some moments...
One for the Road
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --The Telegraph (Sydney)
Swept off...
by Allen Tiller
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
It has always been Allen Tiller’s aim to provide a factual insight into haunted locations in Adelaide, and indeed, the rest of Australia.He lifts the veil on ghost stories and reveals the truth behind the myths and tales that so often become urban legend and local folklore. His mission is...
Taking to the Skies
Daredevils, heroes and hijackings, great Australian flying stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
So how do you test drive a Jumbo? And why did a future civil aviation director once taxi a plane down Perth's main street to attend a ball?
From the ridiculous to the downright dangerous, the story of Australian aviation is full of tales of adventure and nation building. It is also a story...
Island Home
A Landscape Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
A wild, rhapsodic celebration of Australia and its landscape, from one of its finest writers
Rays of Light
Ginninderra Press - the first 20 years
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2016
'Stephen Matthews’s initiative in establishing Ginninderra Press has made a significant contribution to contemporary Australian literature, providing welcome opportunities for both emerging and established writers. Matthews’s dedication and passion are the lifeblood of this unique independent...
The Passing of the Aborigines
A Lifetime spent among the Natives of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
DAISY BATES: "As the years passed, I was more and more convinced that it was impossible to leave these people, to be deaf to their appeal for human kindliness, and of the hopelessness of any movement except one of help and comfort to the individual, and personal example. So savage and...
by Charles Henry Eden
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A fantastic account of an exploratory expedition to Australia, including the exploration of the Gould, Garden and Hinchbrook Islands, and the Macalister and Mackay rivers.
Kerry Girls
Emigration and the Earl Grey Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry Workhouses of Dingle, Kenmare, Killarney, and Listowel between1849—1850, as part of the Earl Grey Scheme. From scenes of destitution and misery, the girls, some of whom spoke only Irish, set off to the other side...
The Vanished Land
Disappearing dynasties of Victoria’s Western District
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. The melancholic exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated...
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts
A book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
'Australian history is...so curious and strange, that it...does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies... It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.' - Mark Twain
Australia is...
Hell's Battlefield
The Australians in New Guinea in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in New Guinea during World War II, from invasion in 1942 to the brutal end game in 1945. Besides giving new perspectives on the Kokoda campaign, the book covers the battles that preceded and those...