CK - Australia & Oceania 2

The Australian Exploration Anthology features the first-hand personal accounts of the explorers: Captain William Dampier, Captain James Cook, Matthew Flinders, John McDouall Stuart, John McKinlay an……続きを見る

The true story of Australia's SAS and the soldier who was there from the start. Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed fr……続きを見る

The first ever book devoted entirely to the golden years of the Sydney underworld.In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large proport……続きを見る

“One of the strangest and most horrifying stories ever told.”ーJohn Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman **“First rate.”ー**Newsweek In July, 1816, a French frigate ran aground on a sandb……続きを見る

The all-time classic telling of life in the 1960s Hauraki Gulf In 1964 trailblazing author Shirley Maddock and photographer Don Whyte made an extraordinary voyage around the Hauraki Gulf, documentin……続きを見る

In Friedrich Gerstäckers Buch 'Australien' taucht der Leser tief in die exotische Welt des australischen Kontinents ein. Mit detailreichen Beschreibungen der Landschaft, Fauna und Flora entführt der……続きを見る

Commemoration of war is done through sport on Anzac Day to remember Australia's war dead. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sporting tradition at Gallipoli in 1915, and ……続きを見る

‘An intimate portrait of a woman who changed herself and Australia…Michelle Scott Tucker makes Elizabeth Macarthur step off the page.’ David Hunt , Author of Girt In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised ……続きを見る

Sydney, famed for its setting and natural beauty, has fascinated from the day it was conceived as an end-of-the-world repository for British felons, to its current status as one of the world’s most ……続きを見る

A riveting story of one of Australia’s forgotten mysteries. Kosciuszko is more than just our highest mountain – unbidden, it forms part of our national sense of self. So when in 1928 two men went mi……続きを見る

Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects. The ni……続きを見る

It seems that not even world war could stop crime in Sydney. In fact, World War Noir confirms that war and crime ー in the form of sex, drugs, alcohol, racketeering and other illicit activities ー g……続きを見る

In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail wi……続きを見る

A compelling account of Australia's intelligence organisations and special forces - from the early days of the commandos during World War II through to the SAS of today and the cyber wars of the fut……続きを見る

A fascinating insight into Breaker Morant and the question of morality and human life. The question of "The Breaker's" innocence is still being fiercely debated more than a century after Lieutenant ……続きを見る

During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold that had lasted almost a century. It was an exciting time for a diverse group……続きを見る

The Depression of the 1930s was a defining period in New Zealand history. It had its own vocabulary – swaggers and sugarbags, relief work and sustenance, the Queen Street riots and special constable……続きを見る

Twin tales of 19th century miscarriages of justice, resulting in the deaths of a father and a son: both sentenced to hang in entirely separate circumstances, on different days 24 years apart and, ev……続きを見る

An engrossing account of a pivotal year in Australia’s history. This book debunks one of the hardiest clichés in Australian history: that the 1950s was a dull decade, when the nation seemed only int……続きを見る

Illustrates the centrality of domestic politics to colonial rule and the ways in which mastery over servants was a key expression of colonial power 続きを見る

In 'Notes of a Gold Digger, and Gold Diggers' Guide,' James Bonwick presents a fascinating look into the gold rush era, combining personal experiences with practical advice for aspiring prospectors.……続きを見る

New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everymanーpoet, novelist, critic, activist. C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his m……続きを見る

Louis Becke's 'The Americans In The South Seas' is a captivating collection of short stories that provide readers with a vivid depiction of American life in the South Seas during the late 19th centu……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia’s rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforest……続きを見る

Es sind Regionen der Sehnsüchte, es ist ein Kontinent der Träume: Australien, Neuseeland und die Inseln Ozeaniens. Der Wiener Ethnologe Herrmann Mückler erzählt ihre ganze Geschichte von der ersten ……続きを見る

For three hundred years the Chinese have influenced Australia – in a million ways… and it continues to today. It is a fascinating story of a race transference and heritage from China to Australia. T……続きを見る

Independence and Foreign Policy is the first interpretive study of New Zealand foreign policy to cover the period 1935–91. Based on years of detailed research, it draws extensively on relevant sourc……続きを見る

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost.. In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Jap……続きを見る

It’s a fact not yet universally acknowledged, that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway, preferably……続きを見る

Born in Germany, Margitta Acker came to Australia in June 1962. Five weeks later, she was married at St Peter's Lutheran Church in Reid. For her, it was a wedding among strangers. Her memories of se……続きを見る