Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
First Contact
Tasman’s Arrival in Taitapu, 1642
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
As the Dutch replied in darkness with shouts and trumpet calls from the decks of their ships, the warriors must have been mystified by these creatures who entered into their rituals, yet used exotic instruments and spoke an unintelligible tongue.With the publication of her book Two Worlds,...
Outback
Unter australischer Sonne: Erotischer Liebesroman
Language: German
Release Date: July 18, 2019
Faith wird für die vierzehnjährige Samantha als Privatlehrerin engagiert und landet im australischen Outback. Sie rechnet mit dem üblichen Job ... bis sie Samanthas attraktivem Vater Ian gegenübersteht. So ablehnend er ihr zu Beginn begegnet, so heiß brennt die Luft nur vierundzwanzig Stunden...
by Sophie Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A year in Melbourne's city life told in diary form, this contemporary and personal portrait depicts major events from the Australian heat wave, which culminated in more than 400 bushfires, to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. While walking through Melbourne’s oldest suburb to its largest market,...
Victoria's Heritage
Lectures to celebrate the 150th anniversary of European settlement in Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1986
Victoria's 150th anniversary celebrations have put the spotlight on the state, and on its cultural and environmental development. In this book, leading historians survey that development across a number of important areas including literature, painting, environmental control, drama and architecture.
After...
Gay Sydney
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A History is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality...
Pacific Worlds
A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia....
The New Arcadia
Tahiti's Cursed Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
SINCE BEING “DISCOVERED ” IN 1767, Tahiti has faced a profound cultural upheaval. From the start, she has been branded with the irresistible dual myth of the Noble Savage’s harmonious Arcadian life and of the vahine’s amorous favours freely granted. People (navigators, missionaries, whalers,...
by Helen Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
"The old life described in this book disappeared long ago, but something of its heritage has, in Hawaii, become the heritage of all who live there today." With these words from the introduction to The Hawaiians: An Island People, Helen Gay Pratt invites her readers to become acquainted with...
by Sophia Seeds
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
April 15, 2012 Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the fateful day the Titanic hit an iceberg in the frigid north Atlantic on its maiden voyage.Why is it that the Titanic still fascinate the world a century later?The Titanic was never meant to be an ordinary vessel but it was built...
by Frédéric Durand, Danielle Mitterrand
Language: French
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: July 19, 2017
La République Démocratique de Timor-Leste, ancienne colonie portugaise occupée par l’Indonésie de 1975 à 1999 est devenue en 2002 le premier Etat du 3ème millénaire. Elle est généralement présentée comme un pays neuf, qui aurait dû « repartir de zéro », voire comme un pays...
Robert Louis Stevenson: Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Island Studies
Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook of "Robert Louis Stevenson: Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Island Studies" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel...
Summary of The Immortal Irishman
by Timothy Egan | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Summary of The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan | Includes Analysis Preview: Timothy Egan’s The Immortal Irishman is a biography of Thomas Meagher: Irish revolutionary, convict, and Civil War general. The book also offers a broad portrait of theexperiences of the Irish...
by et al, Daty, Norman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
A celebration of the building and architecture of Federation Square, which has become one of our most important landmarks and a global triumph of architectural design.
by John Rae
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well...