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Stilwater
Finding Wild Mercy in the Outback
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Rafael de Grenade was twelve years old when she quit school and soon began to work on a rough-country mountain ranch in Arizona. There she learned how to sleep out when there was no fast way home; how to track her way by familiar spires and rivers; how to survive off the water that seeped from moss hidden...
by Brian Gill
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Natural history museums contain many thousands of zoological specimens and each has a tale to tell - often involving extraordinary people, daring explorations, unquenchable scientific curiosity, and strange coincidences. This perfectly presented book, with its engaging pictures, is rich in stories...
Tasmania's Convicts
How felons built a free society
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies.
Following the...
DA BEST Holiday of a Lifetime
National Parks and Scenic Drives of the Western USA
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The Australian authors drove 18,200 miles through 13 western states of the USA in a hire car, visiting 30 national parks and many noted scenic drives. Readers who have traveled the national parks will relive precious memories. Those who wish to visit will feel they are traveling with the authors. Others...
by John West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1852. "Nearly fifty years have elapsed, since Van Diemen's Land was numbered with the colonies of the British empire. A generation has risen up and is passing away. Thousands, while they venerate the land of their European ancestors, with an amiable fondness love Tasmania as their...
Black November
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
This book details New Zealand's worst public health crisis, and its worst natural disaster: over 8,500 New Zealanders died from influenza and pneumonia in just six weeks. Nearly a quarter of the victims were Maori, who died at seven times the death rate of European New Zealanders. First published...
by William Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The Journal of William Ellis is a classic of Pacific literature, ranking with the journals of Captain Cook and his men as a record of life and customs of the traditional Hawaiians.
No other book rivals it as an account of the life of the Hawaiians in the early 19th century. For readers not...
by Leona Crawford, David Livingston Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Besides providing a wealth of contemporary factual information, diligently researched and presented in a remarkably lucid manner, this book is full of human interest: the braving of incredible dangers, the enduring of great hardships, and devastating storms; contacts with cannibals, beachcombers,...
Under the Mountain Wall
A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1987
A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise.
In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe...
by M. M. Estes
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Have you ever wished you could go somewhere that you have read about or heard about to see for yourself what it is like? That is how this book began. After spending one school year (ten months) on the island of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands where the reef was part of the back yard and the lagoon...
The Blue Raider
A Tale of Adventure in the Southern Seas (with color illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The Blue Raider: A Tale of Adventure in the Southern Seas is a good novel written by Herbert Strang.
Moriori
A People Rediscovered
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
'A book to be treasured for the access it gives us to a little-known corner of the New Zealand experience.'
Tipene O'Regan, Evening Post
This award-winning, trail-blazing book by Michael King restored the Moriori of the Chatham Islands to their rightful place in New Zealand, Pacific and world...
True Red
The life of an ex-Mongrel Mob gang leader
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Wearing the colour red, living by the ‘law of lawlessness’ and having the patch with the emblem of the mighty bulldog on your back was what ex-Mongrel Mob leader Tuhoe ‘Bruno’ Isaac called being True Red. “Because all levels of society hated us we created a new society of hatred symbolised...
by Dr. Jone Senibici
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Historians claimed that the early Fijians adopted cannibalism from their long voyage at sea. The lack of adequate nutrition forced these sailors to consume the dead in order to survive. When they landed in Fiji, this practice of anthropophagy/cannibalism became part of the Fijian diet.
A WARNING...