Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
by Ernest Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER 1. FLINDERS AND THE INVESTIGATOR.
CHAPTER 2. THE AFFAIR OF ENCOUNTER BAY.
CHAPTER 3. PORT PHILLIP.
CHAPTER 4. TERRE NAPOLEON AND ITS NOMENCLATURE.
CHAPTER 5. DID THE FRENCH USE FLINDERS' CHARTS?
CHAPTER 6. THE MOTIVES OF...
by John Lort Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
2 works of John Lort Stokes Officer in the Royal Navy (1812-1885)
This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of John Lort Stokes. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Discoveries in Australia Volume I - Discoveries in Australia Volume II
by Ron Smith, Jim Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
In Two Up Down Under, Ron and Jim enjoy a road trip around Canberra and the Riverina in Jim’s 50-year old VW Kombi, Miss October. As well as the journey, the story of Miss October is told, and, as would be expected, there are over 190 photos mostly in colour as there is a focus on both flying and...
by Paul Richards
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Adventures with Agitators is a tribute to the resilience, determination, patience and tolerance of the Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders of Queensland.
In a series of short yarns about their battles in the justice and political systems, this book exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy...
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
A New Zealand Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A beautifully written, fiercely intelligent and boldly conceived book that puts the author's unlikely marriage to a Maori man into the context of the history of Western colonization of New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural...
Breaking the Bank
An extraordinary colonial robbery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
It was the largest bank robbery in Australian history. On Sunday 14 September 1828, thieves tunnelled through a sewage drain into the vault of Sydney's Bank of Australia and stole 14 000 in notes and cash - the equivalent of 20 million in today's currency. This audacious group of convicts not only...
by Ivan Rudolph
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This is the story of Charles Sturts trip to penetrate Australia's mysterious centre. South Australia is sliding into bankruptcy and the colonials look to Sturt. As "Father of Ausralian Exploration they needed him to find rich lands to rescue the South Australian economy. As one perishes, others wondered...
William Massey
New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
The Great War profoundly affected both New Zealand and its Prime Minister William Massey (1856-1925). 'Farmer Bill' oversaw the despatch of a hundred thousand New Zealanders, including his own sons, to Middle Eastern and European battlefields. In 1919 he led the New Zealand delegation to the Paris...
Great Australian Journeys
Gripping stories of intrepid explorers, dramatic escapes and foolhardy adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM
Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories...
Mawson's Huts
The Birthplace of Australia's Antarctic Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14, led by the young Australian geologist Dr Douglas Mawson, who was later knighted for his efforts, was not only one of the last great voyages of the Heroic Era, it was by far the most successful of its time in scientific terms. The results of the...
The Devil in Tim
Penelope's travels in Tasmania
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In a word: delightful - Herald Sun
Prepared to be charmed. - Canberra Times
When Tim Bowden went back to Tasmania to explore his state of origin for the first time in many years, he was reminded of his adolescent assertion that Tasmania is the testicle of Australia, suffusing the mainland...
MacArthur's Coalition
US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From 1942–1945 the Allies’ war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. By charting the evolution of the military effectiveness of the US-Australian alliance, MacArthur’s Coalition puts...
East Timor, Australia and Regional Order
Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN in building the new polity. All of these developments had an important impact on regional order, not least testing the ASEAN norm of 'non-interference'.Australian complicity in the Indonesian occupation o
Warrior
A legendary leader's dramatic life and violent death on the colonial frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
'Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our warriors were Anzacs. Not all our wars were just.' - John Birmingham, author and columnist
In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series...