Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
Last Words
The Hanging of Ronald Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
On 3 February 1967, despite public outrage and vocal protests from wide-ranging community groups, Ronald Ryan became the last person to be legally executed in Australia. Last Words is the human story behind this historical event that aims to answer some of the remaining unanswered questions, fifty...
Early Queensland Ghosts and Hauntings
Ghost Tales of the Past Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
This publication contains 10 Queensland Ghost Stories, some you may have heard of, others have been long forgotten and bought back to life within these pages.
This is book 1 in the ‘Ghost Tales of the Past’ series. This series tells the historical tales of Australia’s ghosts, poltergeists...
by Ernest Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott. Contains the full illustrations of the original. Captain Matthew Flinders (1774–1814) was a distinguished navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent.
Within his forty years...
Our Stories
The Way We Used To Be
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
In Our Stories, author and journalist Ian Wishart brings out the most fascinating forgotten tales of our past, told through the eyes of the people who were there. Read about the tsunamis that washed away the homes and lives of our early European immigrants, or the earthquakes that toppled Christchurch...
From Carr to Keneally
Labor in office in NSW 1995-2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
At the NSW state election in 2011, the public turned on the 16-year-old Labor administration with unprecedented fury. The Government that had won spectacular victories in 1999 and 2003 was defeated with a swing that was an Australian postwar record. How did it manage to stay in power for four terms?...
by Steve Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Knots and Rigs is an instructive, fully illustrated guide to selecting and tying the most appropriate knot to suit your fishing needs, as well as providing useful insights into which rigs best suit your fishing environment and purpose. This ebook covers 46 knots including terminal connections and line-to-line...
by Publishing, Hardie Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Just like a Lady Gaga outfit, the Sydney food scene has become more exciting, colourful and quirkier than ever. No longer do you need to be cashed-up and dressed to the nines to have a decent meal. Hide & Seek Sydney: Feeling Peckish?, is a guide to 30 of the citys hidden foodie treasures. Whether youre...
Black and Proud
The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, “I’m black and I’m proud to be black.” The moment...
Finding Eliza
Power and Colonial Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt...
Swimming with Crocodiles
The True Story of a Young Man in Search of Meaning and Adventure Who Finds Himself in an Epic Struggle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
A rousing account of a young man’s forty-day sojourn into the Australian outback and his epic confrontation with the awesome power of nature.
Will Chaffey is eighteen when he boards a plane in New York bound for Australia. Taking time off from school to work and travel, Will meets an enigmatic...
by Smedley, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Budget Rest Areas around New South Wales is the most comprehensive directory of rest areas along New South Waless major roads and highways. For every rest area, there is information on facilities, a photo and maps that pinpoint the exact location. Whether its to plan where you stop for a cuppa or to...
by Alannah Foley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Bothersome insects, delightful creatures, and the man who transforms potholes from deathtraps to works of art... Meet these and more in this humorous, informative & reflective travel tale.
After twenty years off the mosquito menu, the author returns to the Land Down Under.
But is it what...
Ochre and Rust
Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Ochre and Rust offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curiosity between collectors and those indigenous people who piqued or responded to their...
by Lonely Planet, Celeste Brash, Jean-Bernard Carillet
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
#1 best-selling guide to Tahiti & French Polynesia***
Lonely Planet Tahiti & French Polynesiais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Swim in the sparklingly clear waters, hike to waterfalls, dive into coral...