Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
Terra Australis Incognita
The Spanish Quest for the mysterious Great South Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait and very possibly the...
Stealth Raiders
A Few Daring Men in 1918
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
In 1918 a few daring low-ranking Australian infantrymen, alone among all the armies on the Western Front, initiated stealth raids without orders. These stealth raiders killed Germans, captured prisoners and advanced the line, sometimes by thousands of yards. They were held in high regard by other...
by Geoffrey Blomfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The End of the DancingThe massacre of a peaceful peopleIn this unique book, Geoffrey Blomfield has set out to tell the complete story of black-white relations in a small and manageable area the “Falls Country” around the headwaters of the Manning, Macleay and Hastings Rivers on the south eastern...
Fighting the Kaiserreich
Australia's Epic Within the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book portrays a modern epic - of an army that sailed across the world to fight a war. Its struggle with the Kaiserreich (German empire) became the most formidable campaign Australian troops have ever fought. By the time Monash's soldiers broke through the Hindenburg Line, their achievement and...
by Nicolas Rothwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
This is the story of a quest – a journey down the red highway. On returning from a war zone, Nicolas Rothwell begins to explore the deserts and towns, sleepy coastline and hidden worlds of Australia’s north. As he travels, his journey gathers momentum and finds a shape. He has unforgettable, even...
The Vietnam Years
From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Vietnam War was the longest and most divisive war in our history. Almost 60,000 Australians served and more than 500 were killed. At home, thousands protested against the war and conscription and hundreds were sent to jail. THE VIETNAM YEARS is the story of both sides of that war, from the vicious...
Maralinga
The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
The facts are shocking. The treachery is chilling. The fallout ongoing.
This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light...
True North
The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Awards, Australian History Prize, 2012
Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2012
Shortlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards, Biography of the Year, 2013
Shortlisted, WA Premier's Book Awards, 2012
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack...
by Tom Frame
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the recent finding of her wreck.
On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the light cruiser Sydney, fought a close-quarters battle with the German armed raider HSK Kormoran off Carnarvon on the West...
by Carolyn Holbrook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) remain at the heart of Australia’s national story. But standing firm on the other side of the Anzac enthusiasts is a chorus of critics claiming that the appetite for Anzac is militarizing the nation’s history and indoctrinating their children....
The Great Australian Loneliness
A Classic Journey Around and Across Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
'This is the story of a journalist's journey round and across Australia... It was in July 1930 that I first set out, a wandering "copy-boy" with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines...'
Ernestine Hill's classic account of travelling in the Australian outback,...
The Methodists
A history of Methodism in NSW
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
The Methodists tells the story of Methodism in New South Wales from the establishment of the first class meetings in the colony until the inauguration of the Uniting Church in 1977.
No mere chronicle of events, it seeks to interpret the broad sweep of Methodist history in the state and to understand...
by Monica Makari
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Have a few chuckles while enjoying this easy to read phrase book of Australian slang - funny and entertaining!
by Howard Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question went Down Under, and this is what he hilariously found.
On what he calls “the adventure of his life,” Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle...