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by Vicky Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
A collection of short, personal experiences Vicky Gray and her family encountered during the first year of their new life Down Under. In addition to entertaining diary entries, inspirational stories from other expats, top tips and vital resources, the book is crammed full of well-researched information...
Vanda & Young
Inside Australia's Hit Factory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Featuring revealing interviews with the members of AC/DC and other chart-topping acts, this chronicle profiles the careers of Australia’s top songwriters, producers, and star-makers: Harry Vanda and George Young. From their partnership as members of Easybeats to their diverse range of hits-including...
Seriously...You Have to Laugh
Great yarns and tall tales from the sporting fields, dressing rooms and commentary boxes of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms, bars and commentary boxes of Australia.
From the clever sledges behind the bales and the...
The Best Australian Yarns
and other true stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humour and anecdotes--the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates and other colourful characters from all parts of Australia and all walks of life.
This...
A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal
Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
New edition of the bestselling history that traces the chequered story of 100 women transported together in 1829 to Sydney. Includes new information on the women and treatment of convicts and new illustrations. Intrigued to discover a convict ancestor in her family tree Babette Smith decided to investigate...
by Frank Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
'thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' - The Sun Herald
An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.
In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn't even have an officer...
Mutiny on the Bounty
A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.
Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit...
by John Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
A powerful and very different account of war and its effect on those who fight
The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both...
by Edward Kanze
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
"Edward Kanze offers a superb chronicle of the nature of Australia in all the meanings of the word. You won't be able to read it without calling your travel agent." - Bill McKibben. Over nine adventurous months, Edward and Debbie Kanze drove an old station wagon 25,000 miles around Australia,...
Hamilton Hume
Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as...
Castaway
The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo. Around the eastern...
by John Darkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions: to observe the transit of Venus and to find and chart the mythical Great Southern Land. He succeeded in both tasks, despite he and his...
The Voices of War
Australians Tell Their Stories From World War I to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Drawn from engagements ranging from World War I through to operations in East Timor and Iraq, these stories are taken from the Australians at War Film Archive, a collection of the memories of more than 2000 Australians who have served, both on the front line and at home. Some are unbelievably, unbearably...
by Vicken Babkenian, Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became...