Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
War at the End of the World
Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea.
**“A meaty, engrossing narrative history… This will likely stand...
Fantastic Dreaming
The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals...
by Meme McDonald, Boori Monty Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
BOORI MONTY PRYOR: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2012-13
'I wake with a start. The doorknob turns. It's him. The Hairyman.'
There's a bad spirit in our house. He's as ugly as ugly gets and he stinks. You touch this kind of Hairyman and you lose your voice, or choke to death.
It's...
by Michael Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
An early settler in Australia, Thomas Cook began as a Police Magistrate in the small town of Dungog during the convict era. Often involved in controversy, the life of Thomas Cook tells us much about this early period of Australian history.
Black War
Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Between 1825 and 1831 close to 200 Britons and 1000 Aborigines died violently in Tasmania’s Black War. It was by far the most intense frontier conflict in Australia’s history, yet many Australians know little about it. The Black War takes a unique approach to this historic event, looking chiefly...
by Joanne Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Based on extensive archival and oral history research as well as on personal connections with the community, this volume challenges the prevailing negative view of Palm Island, Australia, and argues against the failure to address today’s continuing Indigenous disadvantage. This substantial history...
Fighting Hard
The Victorian Aborigines Advancement League
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Fighting Hard tells a history of the Aborigines Advancement League, the oldest Aboriginal organization in Australia. As both a welfare and activist body, the League can be seen as the mother of all Aboriginal Victorian community organizations, having spawned a diverse range of organizations. This...
Speaking from the Heart
Stories of Life, Family and Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country share powerful stories that are central to their lives, family, community, or country. The stories provide a very personal picture of the history, culture, and contemporary experience of Aboriginal Australia.
William John Wills
Pioneer of the Australian Outback
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
In 1860 the Australian outback remained all but unknown to the European settlers. A prize of £2,000 was offered by the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria for the first expedition successfully to cross the country from Melbourne to the north coast. The Burke & Wills Expedition,...
by Joan Harvey, James Harvey, Keith Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In The SHADOW OF THE GUNS Joan Harvey recounts a unique life as an independent-minded girl growing up in the late 1800s. Although born in Bangalore, India, her early childhood was spent in Hobart, Tasmania. Left in the care of relatives in Hobart at a young age when her parents returned...
by G. Arnold Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Illustrated
The Voyage of the Endeavour is undoubtedly one of the most delightfully readable and authentic accounts ever written of Captain James Cook's first memorable voyage of exploration. Its republication at this time commemorates not only the 200th anniversary of the discovery by Cook...
Visiting the Neighbours
Australians in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A million Australians went to Bali last year, following the millions of others who have made their way across Asia over the past century. Many travelers returned thinking they knew Asia and their personal experiences helped shape popular attitudes. This absorbing book unpacks their experiences, showing...
No Small Change
The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
In 1967, Australians voted overwhelmingly in favor of removing from the Constitution two references that discriminated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Though these seemed like small amendments, they were an impetus for real change: from terra nullius to land rights, and from...
by Ashley Mallett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
An entertaining collection of insider yarns by an Aussie Test cricket legend.
In the Test arena, Dennis Lillee wasnever beaten. West Indian champion Viv Richards had taken the sword to all theinternational bowlers of his era. But when he came up against Lillee, it was a heavy-weight fight between...