Australia & Oceania 6

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features of its history, geography, and culture since the b……続きを見る

The idea of flying like the birds in the sky was a fantasy until the men of science began unlocking the mysteries of the universe in the 15th century. Innovation was then needed but by the end of th……続きを見る

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stre……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusio……続きを見る

How distinctive is South Australia after all? South Australia has often been represented as "different": free of convicts, more enlightened in its attitudes toward Aboriginal people, estab……続きを見る

Overview of Australia around 1900. Chapters include: Australia Its Beginning, Australia of Today, The Native, The Animals and Birds, The Australian Bush, and The Australian Child. 続きを見る

Contains a Table of Contents.   Miles Franklin (born "Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin"; 1879 – 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist, who is best known for her autobiographic……続きを見る

The grief sits like hot magma, held down by a crust of action… Rebecca Macfies first-hand accounts of the Christchurch earthquakes in the New Zealand Listener provided an often searing account of th……続きを見る

John Curtin, prime minister during the darkest days of the Second World War, is remembered as the reluctant hero of Australian politics. In the Australian story he is the recovering alcoholic and th……続きを見る

Originally published in 1928, this book is a comprehensive study of the Maori people and their inner lives, customs and beliefs, written by one who lived amongst them during a time before modern wes……続きを見る

The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea. Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Au……続きを見る

Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opt……続きを見る

Pacific Asia has witnessed arguably the most dynamic economic growth and social transformation in the world since 1945. Inspired by the example of Japan, a number of high performing economies have e……続きを見る

We weren’t the church going types but Sally didn’t want to get married in a garden. People don’t listen in gardens she’d said. Too many distractions with barking dogs and noisy kids. A wedding is an……続きを見る

I was singing when I went below at 4 a.m. after my two-hour turn at the wheel. I stowed a large chunk of “Best Irish Fruit Cake” and flopped down on the settee to catch a nap until 6. By this time h……続きを見る

'Voyager's bow has been detached from her stern' was the laconic phone message left for the RAN's public relations officer' on the night of 10 February 1964. During naval exercises off the coast at ……続きを見る

Collection Of Australia There is a landslide of 19th and early 20th Century books and articles about American and African indigenous traditions, many treating the subject with sensitivity and great ……続きを見る

JOINT WINNER OF THE 2002 NED KELLY AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME NON-FICTION COMMENDED FOR THE 2003 NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on 3 February 1967, following his convi……続きを見る

On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to……続きを見る

Set in the mid 1850s, the story of Rachel Henning's voyage to Australia is told through the letters she writes to family and friends. Rachel Henning (1826–1914) was born in England. In 1854 she went……続きを見る

The fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement, from one of Australia's leading historians. Early settlers saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as……続きを見る

'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a diff……続きを見る

A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, ON BOARD THE SHIP GLOBE, OF NANTUCKET, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, Jan. 1824 AND THE JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE OF TWO YEARS ON THE MULGRAVE ISLANDS; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNER……続きを見る

From the iconic poems of Bonjo Paterson to todays international bestsellers by Peter Carey and Bryce Courtenay, Australian literature has reflected the changes in Australias national development unt……続きを見る

No contest has captured the imagination of cricket lovers around the world as much as the Ashes. From the controversy of the Bodyline series to the brilliance of Bradman, from the heroics of batsmen……続きを見る

1942 was the year of Australia's greatest peril - as Darwin was destroyed by bombing, Australian ships were torpedoed within sight of our coast, midget Japanese submarines attacked shipping in Sydne……続きを見る

In 1861 an Irish-born explorer emerged from the Australian outback, sole survivor of the country's greatest expedition. John King from Moy, Co. Tyrone, had crossed the arid continent and discovered ……続きを見る

The story of a stranding alone, on an island off the coast of New Zealand, of an English Clergyman. His survival, despair, and joy at rescue.続きを見る

Lachlan Dunn lifted his eyes from the book he was trying to read. He studied his uncle in the dim lamplight. “What you all done up for?” Thaiter grinned and finished tucking his clean shirt into his……続きを見る