Australia & Oceania 92

the year was 1801. the explorer Matthew Flinders was shortly to set sail for 'terra Australis'. Could he possibly win the heart of Ann Chappelle before he departed? She was sweet-natured, clever and……続きを見る

'How many Australians born in the 137 years since Truganini's death learnt her legend and scarcely thought deeper about the enormity of the loss she represented, and the history that led to it? Her ……続きを見る

Fallen Now Forgotten tells the story of the soldiers who do not have any living descendants to remember their sacrifices during World War 1.Each Anzac Day no one wears their medals or carries a phot……続きを見る

Historical or ancestral research can involve putting flesh on ancient bones of some quirky characters, providing insights into how late colonialists lived through good and hard times of NSW. Take, f……続きを見る

Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become. Albert 'Bert' Jacka was 21 w……続きを見る

Carl Lumholtz's "Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life" is a riveting and detailed chronicle of the author's extraordinary explorations in the remote regio……続きを見る

This Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive account of Australian Classical Music EVER WRITTEN. It has some 900 composers and details 40,000+ compositions. Included are performers, ensembles, orche……続きを見る

An in-depth examination of the United States' invasion of two Pacific islands, featuring a variety of illustrations throughout. The 1944 invasion of Saipan was the first two-division amphibious assa……続きを見る

A highly illustrated account of the fourth major carrier battle of the war in the Pacific. Despite myth, the Japanese carrier force was not destroyed at Midway but survived to still prove a threat i……続きを見る

This book untangles the connections between British industrialization and colonial expansion in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The addition of fossil fuels to the energy mix in this p……続きを見る

'A terrific overview of Japan's long and rich history... covers an astonishing amount of ground' PETER FRANKOPAN Japan is a country of islands, strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland... Ev……続きを見る

Stephen Whiteside knew that Spargo's Hut in the Australian mountains near Mt Hotham had been abandoned for many years. However, when he first visited it in 1982, he got a shock. It looked like it wa……続きを見る

Judgment on Erebus is narrative nonfiction at its most compelling and unsettling. Commanded by one of Air New Zealand’s most meticulous and cautious pilots, a sightseeing airliner inexplicably crash……続きを見る

This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate post-war period. It examines how the Australian government responded to the capti……続きを見る

The History of Palau: Islands of Change chronicles the journey of Palau from its earliest known habitation around 3000 BCE to its modern-day status as an independent republic. From its first Europea……続きを見る

Winner, 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize Winner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Shortlisted, 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students……続きを見る

This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples. The prevalent tendency to treat an apology as a speech act has maintained the focus on the state leader mak……続きを見る

The Reporting of Captain Moonlite the Loyal Bushranger, is a compilation of newspaper articles published from 1869 to 1880, which tell the story of the life and death of Andrew George Scott, and his……続きを見る

The Reporting of Captain Thunderbolt the Gentleman Bushranger, is a compilation of newspaper articles published from 1856 to 1941, which tell the story of the life and death of Frederick Wordsworth ……続きを見る

“The Reporting of Australian Bushrangers” Book 1 to 3 of the Australian Bushrangers in Print series. This compilation includes the reporting of Ben Hall, Frederick Wordsworth Ward alias Captain Thun……続きを見る

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 deta……続きを見る

The Reporting of Ben Hall the Brave Bushranger, is a compilation of newspaper articles published from 1862 to 1866, which tell the story of the life and death of Ben Hall and his gang in intricate d……続きを見る

This nineteenth century social history is written by Gail Barnes, the great, great granddaughter of Catherine McKinnon. Catherine McKinnon's life began on the crofting settlement of Kendram, on the ……続きを見る

The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong. It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth-ce……続きを見る

A true story. In 1853, Australia was rocked by the robbery of 〓6,000 of gold from an escorted shipment on a country road heading from the McIvor gold fields to Melbourne, Within days, 400 men were ……続きを見る

*The Life and Martyrdom of Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J.*is a collection of official and unofficial letters and documents in addition to testimonies collected shortly after the death of Diego Luis……続きを見る

The gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer and her career-criminal son When Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent herself. Th……続きを見る

Histoire des isles Marianes (History of the Mariana Islands), was published in Paris in 1700 with authorship attributed to French Jesuit priest Charles Le Gobien, S.J. It provides a detailed glimpse……続きを見る

The inside story, not the fairy story Chapters 36-41 from volume one of The Tale of Frieda Keysser Why did Frieda Keysser, aged just twenty, set out from Bavaria at 4 o’clock in the morning of 5 Aug……続きを見る

Comprehensive and fully updated, Frommer’s Hawaii covers all the major Hawaiian Islands, and takes you from world-famous beaches to secluded rain-forests to authentic luaus and everywhere in between……続きを見る