Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
A Very Rude Awakening
The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspapers...
Constructing Capitalism
An economic history of eastern Australia, 1788-1901
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
In 1788, Australia was a gaol. In 1901 it was a liberal capitalist economy.
How were the convict settlements, scattered on the edge of a vast unexplored continent, transformed within little more than a century into a 'free enterprise' economy?
In tracing the forces engaged in that transformation,...
by Mark Harland
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Everyone has read books about Australia: its history, geography, the Great Barrier Reef or the fact that it is host to the world's ten deadliest animals. But how many have read, or even written, about the Australian character?
Indeed, what is the Australian character? In fact, what is it about...
Travels in Atomic Sunshine
Australia and the occupation of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
A vivid, salutary study of Australia’s little-known participation in the post-war occupation of Japan.
In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to ‘demilitarise and democratise’ the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima...
The Way They Were
The View from the Hill of the 25 Years That Remade Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For many years in Australia, reading journalist Alan Ramsey’s vitriolic, insightful, and always engaging pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings. This book is the compilation of Ramsey’s best work, granting ample access to Australia’s national parliament...
by Gary Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
There’s never been a better time to take a trip down under to see the beauty and splendour of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales (NSW) and the largest city in Australia. Sydney is a cosmopolitan city that offers golden sandy city beaches and crystal clear ocean waters. TABLE OF...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Do you like snorkeling, or diving? Do you like to explore the wonder of coral reef living in the ocean? The best spot to do that is non other than the Great Barrier Reef.
Great Barrier Reef is located in Cairns, Australia. It's one of the seven wonders of the world. Many divers simple just...
Canberra Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Canberra is the capital of Australia. It is located in the southeastern part of the country in the Australian Capital Territory (A.C.T.). The state is surrounded by New South Wales and Canberra is about 150km inland from the coast. The city is 580m above sea level. Most cities have evolved somewhat...
by William John Wills
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First publilshed in 1863. According to the Preface: "A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials for an extended biography. But the important position held by my late son, as second in command in what is now so well-known as the Burke and Wills...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Sydney is located in the state of New South Wales. This is the largest and oldest city in Australia; the year of its foundation is back in 1778 together with the population of Sydney suburbs reached about 4.3 million. Living only in the city centre are almost 146,297 people. Sydney and its suburbs...
ALBERT EDMUND COCKRAM
KING OF THE RACECOURSE
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This is the amazing story of my great grandfather Albert Edmund Cockram who was, in his time, the largest importer of Thoroughbred Racehorses into Australia from Europe and New Zealand. The best blood lines that money could buy were purchased. In one year alone he bought in 150 horses from overseas...
Tim Carmody Affair
Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In 2014 when Tim Carmody, a former police officer, was sworn in as Chief Justice of Queensland, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months and had never served on the Supreme Court. It was one of the most controversial judicial appointments in Australia's history. Chaos ensued. The Tim Carmody...
Europeans in Australia
Volume One: The Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the...
by Terry Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
IN the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War.
On the notorious raider Shenandoah - scourge of the Yankee merchant fleet - they sailed off to adventure and controversy, and fired...