Australia has a rich history of ghost sightings and spooky tales, from the time of European settlement until today - and they are all here in GREAT AUSTRALIAN GHOST STORIES.
From gore-spattered conv……続きを見る
Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travels our wide brown land collecting yarns and memories from the authentic voices of rural Australia. the people you will meet in these stories will touch yo……続きを見る
In August 1800, George Bass returned to England after five years in the British colony of New South Wales. Gifted, ambitious and impatient with the limitations of a naval career, he took leave from ……続きを見る
Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travels our wide brown land collecting yarns and memories from the authentic voices of rural Australia. the people you will meet in these stories will touch yo……続きを見る
Nowhere else in the world is there anything quite like it; and nothing is more beloved by Australians. Its appeal leaps across the generations, the sexes and all the social, political and religious ……続きを見る
A dazzling collection of writing about the sea - from first-hand accounts of ocean voyages to stories by Banjo Paterson and Mark Twain - from Australia's most successful Australiana author.
The deep……続きを見る
The writing of "Evolution of a Family" has been a four year project which was primarily started as a method to uncover my family secrets, but ended up as a tribute to an extraordinary, resilent fam……続きを見る
Truth is stranger than fiction in this fabulous new collection of flying doctor stories from bestselling author Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.
'Where's your thumb?' the doctor asked the injured ringer.'Oh, we……続きを見る
For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known no……続きを見る
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1899 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London. 4 oversize maps are available as a free download. This massive anthropological study of the central Australian tr……続きを見る
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester
In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth……続きを見る
Australia was the last part of the world to be thus visited and explored. In the year 1600, during the times of Shakespeare, the region to the south of the East Indies was still as little known as e……続きを見る
This compelling work of investigative journalism reveals how James Hardie concealed an asbestos tragedy likely to kill or maim an estimated 20,000 Australians.
tHE SHOCKING StORY OF AUStRALIA'S BIGG……続きを見る
From across north Queensland Aboriginal people were systematically rounded-up by police and forced onto missions and settlements including Yarrabah Mission.
Well-cared for children as young as five-……続きを見る
This was "the war to end all wars"; a conflict in which 155,000 Australian servicemen were wounded and over 60,000 died. Through the devastation it left behind, it changed the face of much of the We……続きを見る
A historical detective story for lovers of Colonial Australian history.
With deftness and superb storytelling Graham Seal uses his own scholarly research, the fragments of letters, diary and journal……続きを見る
Love, murder, betrayal, and adventure with transportation of convicts in 1787 and the founding of the penal colony that became Australia.
With the American colonies closed to Britain, the gaols over……続きを見る
著者：Kay Saunders
出版社： University of Queensland Press
発売日： 2013年07月01日
Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South W……続きを見る
著者：Katharine Gelber
出版社： University of Queensland Press
発売日： 2011年03月01日
Why is Australia's current attitude towards freedom of speech harmful to democracy? Australia is the land of the 'fair go'. But does this attitude extend to freedom of speech? Unlike the US, Austral……続きを見る
The Sausage Tree celebrates the favorite childhood game of the authors Rosalie Medcraft and Valda Gee. This award-winning memoir tells of the sisters' childhood spent during the Depression in smallt……続きを見る
How Labor lost the race -- how Bill Shorten could save the party - and why it matters.
In the 2007 election, led by Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard they smashed the Howard government and made the count……続きを見る
A bumper collection of hilarious and heartwarming Australian stories collected by ute-aficionado John Bryant.
We invented it. We love it. the ute is a national icon alongside the pie and sauce. It i……続きを見る
著者：Jackie French
出版社： HarperCollins
発売日： 2013年10月01日
From one of our most respected and award-winning authors, Jackie French, comes a fascinating and fresh interpretation of Australian history, focusing on how the land itself, rather than social force……続きを見る
When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settle……続きを見る
The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius.
A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, W……続きを見る
Professor Marcia Langton's 2012 Boyer Lectures discuss the dependency of Aboriginal businesses and not-for-profit corporations on the resources industry and their resultant vulnerability to economic……続きを見る
Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travels our wide brown land collecting yarns and memories from the authentic voices of rural Australia. the people you will meet in these stories will touch yo……続きを見る
In Vietnam in 1969 Keith Payne was leading a company of indigenous Montagnard soldiers when they were overrun by a large force of North Vietnam regulars. When the company was withdrawn many wounded ……続きを見る
著者：David Hanger
出版社： First Edition Design Publishing
発売日： 2012年06月21日
Gold Rush Otago 1861-64 is about overcoming the dangers posed by the harsh mountainous landscape and furious elements of New Zealand’s Otago goldfields. The story, based on fact in terms of time, pl……続きを見る
The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer.
In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage o……続きを見る
