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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...

   My Crowded Solitude is the story of Jack McLaren who went ashore at Cape York (Australia) to establish a coconut plantation in 1911. The book traces his encounters with Aborigines who were still living as they had in the stone age and his discovery that life in the wilderness can be rich...

This is the journal of the two famous explorers who travelled the inland route to Port Phillip, Australia, in 1824. The Hume and Hovell expedition was one of the most important journeys of explorations undertaken in eastern Australia. In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas...

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,...

HERE IS A LIST OF THE POEMS IN THE BOOK Comes with a Table of Contents for easy finding. El Mahdi to the Australian Troops The Bushfire The Deficit Demon Our Mat Uncle Bill The Sausage Candidate Who is Kater Anyhow? The Hypnotist The Maori Pig Market The Ballad of G. R. Dibbs The...

Illustrated The Voyage of the Endeavour is undoubtedly one of the most delightfully readable and authentic accounts ever written of Captain James Cook's first memorable voyage of exploration. Its republication at this time commemorates not only the 200th anniversary of the discovery by Cook...

   A classic horseracing tale from an Australian legend. Banjo Paterson is best remembered for his brilliant Australian bush poetry, but no less engaging are his warm and funny novels about Australian life. The Shearer's Colt is the story of Hilton Fitzroy, an upper-class Londoner trying...

More erotic short stories from Marcus Clark. Eleven stories in all; the first three are sexual, not crude, but certainly R-rated. The other eight stories, range through humourous, satirical, to dramatic. All stories are set in today's world, dealing with today's issues. Interesting, amusing, easy-reading,...

Contains a Table of Contents.   Miles Franklin (born "Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin"; 1879 – 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist, who is best known for her autobiographical novel, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her...

  This book provides you with more than 70 articles written by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson. These articles were published in various newspapers and magazines, over the period 1890 to 1920.   The collection covers most of the newsworthy events of that time, including The Boer...

  Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941 was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South...

THE ESCAPE OF THE NOTORIOUS SIR WILLIAM HEANS William Gosse Hay The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans is a historical romance focused on Tasmania in the late 1830s and early 1840s. Its protagonist, an Irish baronet who has been transported for abduction, is befriended by a distant...

The Getting of Wisdom The Getting of Wisdom is a novel by Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. It was first published in 1910, and has almost always been in print ever since. Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was...

William Butler Yeats: 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the...