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Australia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Australia is different—a vast island-continent with distances so great that the capital of Western Australia is closer to Singapore than it is to Sydney. The landscape embraces magnificent tropical rainforests and deserts the size of several European states; temperate areas that sustain a flourishing...
Western Australia: A History
From its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
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,...
by Babette Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past.; Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their...
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else
The stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.
From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names...
No Front Line
Australian special forces at war in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australian...
Terra Australis: Text Classics
Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia's greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.
Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital...
Quarterly Essay 12 Made in England
Australia's British Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
In Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the...
Dragon and Kangaroo
Australia and Chinas Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.
Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right...
The Silent Book
A Deaf Family and the Disappearing Australian-Irish Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The book tells the story of the author's mother and father as Deaf people in the context of their lives in Victoria, their schooling in New South Wales in the 1920s and their adult lives. She brings to the fore the rural environment that surrounded their lives as children and as adults in rural...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Western Australia (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 section...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
South Australia (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 section...
by Mitchell Rolls, Anna Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation....
Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia
A reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
During the past thirty years the human history of the Australian continent has become the object of intense national and international interest. These years have been the 'decades of discovery', featuring fieldwork and analyses which have rewritten the distant past of Australia almost on a yearly...
by Janeen Brian
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including opera star Dame Nellie Melba.
A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including opera star Dame Nellie Melba.
Dame Nellie...