Australia category: 2401 books
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Rough Guides Snapshot Australia: Coastal Queensland is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Australia. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the Whitsundays to the Gold Coast and Fraser Island to the Great...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Rough Guides Snapshot Australia: Sydney and around is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Australia. It leads you through the city and surrounding region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Sydney Opera House to Newtown, and the Hunter...
by Roberta Duman
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Migration to Australia is not always straightforward, nor is it the right choice for everyone. This book is designed to assist people in making an informed decision ahead of taking the huge step to relocate. It will equip readers with enough information to prepare them for the day-to-day realities...
by Lee Mylne
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Everything you need for a successful and easy Australian vacation—in one concise and intelligent guide. The Australian dollar has recently plunged in value against the U.S. dollar making Australia far more accessible than it has been in years. To keep up with the changes the new currency situation...
The Dogs that Made Australia
The Story of the Dogs that Brought about Australia's Transformation from Starving Colony to Pastoral Powerhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Hunter. Worker. Legend. The untold story of the dog's role in building a nation.
The Dogs That Made Australia pays tribute to the dogs that gave their all for our prosperity: the fearless hounds that saved fledgling colonies from famine; the courageous heelers and tireless collies that powered...
Australia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Australia is different—a vast island-continent with distances so great that the capital of Western Australia is closer to Singapore than it is to Sydney. The landscape embraces magnificent tropical rainforests and deserts the size of several European states; temperate areas that sustain a flourishing...
Western Australia: A History
From its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Comes with an Active Table of Contents. This history is full of vivid details of the hard life of the first explorers and pioneers.
It covers the period from 1600 to 1901. It has all the makings of an adventure story with epic shipping voyages,...
by Babette Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past.; Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their...
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else
The stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.
From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names...
No Front Line
Australian special forces at war in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australian...
Terra Australis: Text Classics
Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia's greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.
Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital...
Quarterly Essay 12 Made in England
Australia's British Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
In Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the...
Dragon and Kangaroo
Australia and Chinas Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.
Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right...
The Silent Book
A Deaf Family and the Disappearing Australian-Irish Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The book tells the story of the author's mother and father as Deaf people in the context of their lives in Victoria, their schooling in New South Wales in the 1920s and their adult lives. She brings to the fore the rural environment that surrounded their lives as children and as adults in rural...