Australia Oceania category: 2401 books

An original and intriguing history of Melbourne at the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, illustrated throughout with contemporary drawings and photos. In 1901 Melbourne was a small city. Then the founders of the Australian Commonwealth decided it was the best place to house the new...

Lion and Kangaroo is one of Australias great works of history, a rich chronicle of the nations coming-of-age.With intelligence, wisdom and wit, Gavin Souter captures all the milestones of Australias first decades, from the constitutional conventions of the nineteenth century to the turbulent years that...

A look at the underbelly of an industry whose power continues to soar even as its expansion feeds catastrophic climate change, this work dissects the Australian coal industry’s influence to publicly, and behind closed doors, get its way. The book exposes the myth of clean coal and the taxpayer-funded...

With the 2013 race for the Lodge now run and won, who better than Mungo MacCallum to make sense of it all? With wit and insight, Mungo documents the ups and downs of this longest of campaigns. He dissects Labor's self-destructive leadership war, the Coalition's cheap and nasty Broadband Lite, and the...

**First there was Girt. Now comes ... True Girt** In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt transports us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous...

Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and...

Since ancient times gold has exerted a powerful fascination for humankind. Symbol of wealth and riches, it has influenced the rise and fall of empires and changed the course of history. In Australia, its discovery sparked frenzied gold rushes that opened up large parts of the land to settlement, transformed...

The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942. Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian...

A gripping account of the worst disasters to hit Australia since Federation From bushfires to cyclones; sinking ships; train and plane crashes; mine explosions and bridge collapses; the Port Arthur massacre and the Bali bombings; Australia has suffered numerous terrible tragedies. Bestselling...

The fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons; the war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. This bookcorrects such historical amnesia by looking at what occured on the Australian home front during WWI, showing that...

Northern Territory (Australia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the...

Brilliant, witty, scathing, The Australian Ugliness is the classic postwar account of Australian society, how we live in the environments we create, and the consequences of our failure to think about how we live. Boyd was a fierce critic, and an advocate of good design. He understood the significance...

Tasmania is the smallest and only island state in Australia with nearly half of its archipelago of 334 islands being protected. Tasmania’s national parks and UNESCO World Heritage sites make the state a popular destination for tourists.   TABLE OF CONTENTS:  Overview - Culture - Location...

Praise for The Slab    “History as it should be written. With beer. About beer. Crisp. Refreshing. Won't cause bloat.” John Birmingham, author of Leviathan   “I thought I'd been asked to review Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap and was pleasantly surprised to find myself...