Australia Oceania category: 2401 books

In 2006, Coral Waight set out in her little hatchback to begin the first of four road trips around the island of Tasmania, south of where she lives in Melbourne, Australia. She planned to the nth degree, but nothing could have prepared her for getting stuck on the side of a mountain in the...

A rousing tale featuring a family named the Gilpins. Follow their adventures as they travel to Australia to start a new life. Hard work, courage, and determination guide them through tough times and they triumph as a family.

First published in 1846. "Of the Australian shores, the North-western was the least known, and became, towards the close of the year 1836, a subject of much geographical speculation. Former navigators were almost unanimous in believing that the deep bays known to indent a large portion of this coast,...

Locating Asian Australian Cultures is a timely and challenging interdisciplinary compilation that sets a contemporary benchmark for Asian Australian studies and its future directions. In the dynamic field of diasporic Asian studies, Asian Australian Studies is an emerging and contentious area....

This book offers the first transnational historical study of the creation, contention and consequences of the Australian animal movement. Largely inspired by Peter Singer and his 1975 book Animal Liberation, a new wave of animal activism emerged in Australia and across the world. In an effort to draw...

A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. This volume of Bruce Pascoe’s best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, traverses his long career and explores his...

The world is filled of miracles, in this some miracles are man-made and some are natural. It has always have been a born desire of a man that he should always do something new and discover new things. This instinct of man has made our world full of amazement. These amazements include Pyramids of Egypt,...

God’s Triangle is a detective story – a true detective story. It began not as a book, but as a small addition to the author's family history file. The more journalist Ian D. Richardson learned about what happened to his missionary Great Aunt Florence “Florrie” Cox, the more determined he became...

This book is an autobiographical memoir of the author. It goes through to when I turned 30. Eleven days later, Gough Whitlam, the P M, got sacked. Innocence, if not paradise, was lost. It is meant to give a snapshot of what it was like to grow up in a very different Australia – if you were born...

The Ngarridjeri women of South Australia reveal their thoughts, daily challenges, and visions for the future in this moving book. The stories range from charming and delightful to jarring and shocking, and delve into matters both social and personal—including the Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy....

While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna.  Lapérouse and Labillardière, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge. This...

Thousands of years ago humans discovered that by heating rocks in a fire they could make better weapons for hunting for food. With time people became intelligent enough to improve on these processes and make more sophisticated implements and weapons. These people became known as blacksmiths. With these...

The first 'bushrangers' or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness – 'the bush' – in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small, scattered garrisons, but by 1825 the problem of...

In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it’s too late. Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are...