Australasian and Pacific history

In his most thrilling and personal book, Tim Flannery writes a love letter to his homeland, drawing on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal its unique nature.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis - First published in 1920, Main Street is a biting and satirical look at small town America.

William 'Bill' Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014 Discover the story of a real-life Captain Ahab of the slave trade, in a landmark book by one of today's most original and highly acclaimed historians One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Spanish slaver.

This book has been published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the Organ Historical Trust of Australia in 1977.

The Birdsville Track runs through three deserts, from Marree in northern South Australia, to Birdsville in outback Queensland.

This book documents the lives of twenty-one women on soldier settler blocks in New South Wales after World War II.

The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's great epics - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.

The diversity of opinions which were held by Anglicans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was, ideally, the ingredients of a unifying comprehensiveness.

Family history research has been one of Brendas passions for the past twenty years.

'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.

The story of the man who strung the telegraph across Australia, and the woman who gave her name to Alice Springs.

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia.

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia.

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“Una famiglia in guerra” è ambientato agli inizi del ‘900 durante il periodo della prima guerra mondiale.

an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning Herald The bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history now established as a classic.

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The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god.

Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen Jules Verne - Phileas Fogg geht eine aberwitzige Wette ein: er will in 80 Tagen mit Paketbooten und Zügen einmal um die Erde reisen.

Before his death at the age of 110 in May 2011, Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both world wars.

At the height of the bitter battle for Mount Longdon during the Falklands War , 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiments assault has stalled in the face of determined resistance.