Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
by Inara Strungs
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Long ago, in 1918, a small traditional bakery was built in the inner city suburb of Waterloo, Sydney. This was well before the tower blocks, the ice addicts, the trendy new apartments and the fashionable restaurants in Danks St.The last owners of Elma bakery were a Latvian migrant family who...
Backseat Drivers
A road trip along the Hume Highway with some opinionated voices from Australia's history
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
It’s a fact not yet universally acknowledged, that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway, preferably in the company of Captain Cook, Henry Lawson, Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly. Backseat Drivers is...
The Reporting of Captain Moonlite the Loyal Bushranger
History Story in Newspaper Articles 1869 to 1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The Reporting of Captain Moonlite the Loyal Bushranger, is a compilation of newspaper articles published from 1869 to 1880, which tell the story of the life and death of Andrew George Scott, and his companions in intricate detail as it was read by the nation over a century ago. These newspaper stories...
by Daniel J. Pukstas
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
What might a two-month visit to Australia and New Zealand be like if the traveler were not distracted and overwhelmed by the spectacular scenery? In this book Dan Pukstas, a blind professor, answers this question by providing a series of humorous and insightful perspectives about the places and people...
by Ivan Rudolph
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
John Flynn is one of Australia's greatest folk heroes. His achievements are stuff of legend - no other Australian has had more monuments dedicated to him than John Flynn. Flynn established a network of cottage hospitals, flying doctors, patrol padres, welfare centres and radio transmitters to create...
Baring All Down Under
Hilarious Confessions of a Bewildered Backpacker
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Desperate to escape the UK despite his strong dislike of travelling, a blindfolded Steve Deeks stabs a pen into a world map to decide where to head, ending up with Australia as his destination. He then bravely embarks on his adventure into the unknown – with hilarious consequences. Things hardly...
Te Iwi Maori
Population Past, Present and Projected
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Te Iwi Maori presents an engrossing survey of the history of the Māori population from the earliest times to the present, concentrating particularly on the demographic impact of European colonisation. It also considers present and future population trends, many of which have major implications for...
Taking Liberty
Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens....
Animals Count
How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to deviate from the human-declared set point, they...
Discover the world differently n°2
Travel with your child and open his/her mind! Brazil, Canada, Romania, Thailand, Egypt, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Make your children discover the world differently!
Are your children bored in front of the TV or with video games?
What if you were to offer them another way to discover the countries and peoples of our planet?
This little Kids Experience « Discover the world differently » will help you!
Browse...
Indigenous Crime and Settler Law
White Sovereignty after Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane examine the foundations of criminal law's response to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another. Against the changing background of settler encounters with Australian Indigenous...
The Good Neighbour: Volume 5, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations
Australian Peace Support Operations in the Pacific Islands 1980–2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The Good Neighbour explores the Australian government's efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from 1980 to 2006. It tells the story of the deployment of Australian diplomatic, military and policing resources at a time when neighbouring governments were under pressure from political violence...
So Far and Yet so Close
Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
So Far and Yet So Close provides a comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centres on both the natural and frontier environments. There are many points at which the western Canadian and...
by Mary Arrigan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Esty Maher's family is uprooted and torn apart during the Irish potato famine - 'the Hunger'. Esty is sent into service, but dreams of going to Australia to find gold, and manages to get assisted passage for her family and friends. However, when they reach Ballarat, her dream and hard work nearly...