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"Australian is my home" series lead you to know about Australia, a beautiful country we are living in. Words are made simple for beginner readers. You could use it as a entry level reading book to help kid learn. You could also use it as a book help kids learn more about this world. Each page contains...

Neil stepped out of the module. He moved carefully down the small ladder. He reached the last step and stopped. Slowly, he placed his foot on the moon. 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind.' It's a cold day in July and on a small television screen in Australia, a man is...

His sequel to the Three Abell Men, continues with the family of Edward, his five sons who one by one left school, worked on the family’s sugar cane farm before moving on to farming and other careers of their own choice. In an era of changing modernisation, the eldest son Colin recalls his years...

This work offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, located in rich cultural, social and political context, which also presents a new view of the decades around federation.

The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia’s most popular football code. The work is chronological, and therefore provides an easy path by which events may be followed. Ultimately it seeks to shine a light on...

Jessica Mackay has one dream - to be a pilot. Jessica lives on her family farm at Narromine, New South Wales, in the 1920s - the best place for a would-be pilot. Her father developed a passion for flying in Egypt during World War I, and Narromine lies close to the heart of Australia's budding aviation...

In her new book, Helen Womack turns herself upside down on a journey of self-discovery to Oz. At the same time, the land Down Under is turned inside out, as Helen explores the continent from a starting point at its desert heart, rather than its coast and cities. This is an Australia that is both familiar and very foreign.

A modern day Hunting of the Snark... "with infinite humour, the impossible voyage of an improbable crew, to find an inconceivable creature" With the Australian economy in the first stages of recession in 1988, Geoff and Barbara, living quite happily in Sydney's Lower North Shore, decide...

Holidaying in New Zealand and adventure activities like bungee jumping, canyon swinging, and jetboating up wild rivers are virtually synonymous. But there are other adventures that this country–one of the most isolated in the world–offers. Finding them may not be that easy, nor is getting there and...

For city folk looking to give their spotless four wheel drives a bit of a workout, there are few greater challenges than the ‘Australian Inland Loop’. Along with four friends, Brian and Joy Grant started their dream trek at Arkaroola, in the Flinders Ranges. This 5,000 km circuitous route heads...

Always On the Way: Travel Stories of a Semi-Young Black Woman's Life Overseas While Trying to Maintain Her Sanity, recounts the trials and triumphs of a youngish Texan living, working, and traveling in the far east. In 2014, Stacy Thomas decided to fulfill one of her childhood dreams by moving to...

A SWEEPING HISTORICAL NOVEL It was an age of exploration, a time of danger and a place full of intrigue. Fiji, 1866, is a country teetering between unpredictable chiefs, lawless migrants, missionaries and wild colonial boys from New Zealand and Australia seeking new lives and fortunes....

“The Reporting of Australian Bushrangers” is a compilation of Book 1 to 3 of the Australian Bushrangers in Print series. This compilation includes the reporting of Ben Hall, Frederick Wordsworth Ward alias Captain Thunderbolt and Andrew George Scott alias Captain Moonlite. This book tells the...

The Reporting of Harry Power the Notorious Bushranger, is a compilation of newspaper articles published from 1856 to 1903, which tell the story of the life and death of Harry Power in intricate detail as it was read by the nation over a century ago. These newspaper stories offer a remarkable insight...