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Fatal Shore
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Robert Hughes
This nationwide bestselling account of the founding of Australia is "a brilliant and enduring achievement . . . history of the highest order combining thorough research with vivid narrative and thoughtful assessment".--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Two 16-page black-and-white photo inserts.
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Road from Coorain
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Jill Ker Conway
A memoir of Jill Ker Conway's childhood in Australia and her education in the US, where she became the first woman president of Smith College.
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Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee
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Chloe Hooper
Hooper's brilliant and searing account of the death of Cameron Doomadgee is written with the pace of a thriller. "Tall Man" tells the story of what happened to one man in an Aboriginal community and provides insight into a world few have ever seen.
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
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Thomas Keneally
Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard, and administrators arrived in New South Wales.
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True North: A Memoir
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Jill Ker Conway
The author continues the memoir that began in "The Road from Coorain," with her arrival in the United States from Australia in 1960 until her acceptance of the presidency of Smith College in 1975. She recounts her immersion in a world of intellectual women, her marriage to her Harvard House master, John Conway, whom she discovers is manic ...
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
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Christina Thompson
An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures. "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All" is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told ...
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The Battle for the Falklands
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Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins
A chronicle of the call to arms and an informed analysis of the Falklands War.
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My Place
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Sally Morgan
In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled to her grandmother's birthplace, Corunna Downs Station in Western Australia. She wants to trace the experiences of her childhood andolescence in Perth in the 1950's. Through memories and images, hints and echoes begin to emerge and another story unfolds - the mystery of her aboriginal identity. Gradually her whole ...
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A Concise History of Australia
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Stuart Macintyre
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. ...
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The Penguin History of New Zealand
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Michael King
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce a full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else ...
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One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander
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Sandy Woodward
This account of the Falklands War is by the commander of the British Task Force, Admiral Sandy Woodward. On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic unaware of what lay ahead of them or whether they would be committed to war with Argentina. In ...
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MR Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theater on H. M. Armed Vessel Bounty
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Greg Dening
William Bligh was one of the least physically violent disciplinarians in the British Navy, why, then, did he have a mutiny? Mr Bligh's Bad Language is a study of the mutiny on the Bounty, and its role in society and culture. Greg Dening draws on a wide range of influences, including modern cinematic portrayals.
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A Concise History of New Zealand
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Philippa Mein Smith
New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. In this new account of New Zealand's history, Philippa Mein Smith considers this rugged and dynamic land from its break from Gondwana 80 million years ago to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Mein Smith highlights the effects of the country's ...
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Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia
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Mark Borthwick
The Asia-Pacific region now looks set to become a major economic and political global force. Focusing on both southeast and northeast Asia, this highly illustrated volume examines the broad, cross-cutting themes of regional history, emphasizing the interactions between cultures and nations. Spanning the whole history of the Pacific Asia, from ...
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Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership
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Peter Read
This extraordinary book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. Always acting as a counterpoint is the prior occupation and ownership by Aboriginal people and their spiritual attachment. Peter Read asks the pivotal questions: What is the meaning of places important to non ...
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
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Julia Blackburn
A creative and experimental biography in which Julia Blackburn tells the fascinating story of Daisy Bates, an Irishwoman who lived among the Aborigines in the Australian outback. Told in Bates's voice, this 'biography' challenges the conventional form.
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Dancing with Strangers
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Inga Clendinnen
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The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier
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Sarah P Murgatroyd
Journalist and adventure traveler Murgatroyd relives the harrowing true story of the Burke and Wills expedition team, who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost. 53 photos.
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Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History
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Jennifer Isaacs
Australian Dreaming is the first Aboriginal history of the Australian continent and its people, as told by Aboriginal storytellers. It recounts epic travels of the Great Spirit Ancestors and tells how they created the animals and plants and gave birth to the earliest people of this land.
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Sydney
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Jan Morris
This portrait of Sydney describes a city surrounded by myth. The author outlines Sydney's development from penal colony to metropolis, the precarious sense of economic uncertainty, the underlying crime and bigotry and other changes in Sydney society.
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From Strength to Strength: An Autobiography
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Sara Henderson
After having her hopes for a career as a professional tennis player dashed by a traumatic car accident when she was 19, the author of this memoir married a man who paid little attention to her as she ran the million-acre Australian ranch he owned. Her success as ranch manager drew the attention of Australia's business community and press, and in ...
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The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia
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Henry Reynolds
The publication of "The Other Side of the Frontier" in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a classic of Australian history. Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, the book describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways ...
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Road to Botany Bay
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Paul Carter
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Searching for the Secret River
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Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville's "The Secret River" was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers. "Searching for the Secret River" tells the ...
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Australia
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Erinn Banting
This book is suitable for ages 9 to 14 years. Brilliant full-color photographs explore the topography, climate, and diverse wildlife that sets Australia apart from anywhere else in the world. Topics include: coastal cities and outback towns; northern tropical forests, cyclones, monsoons, bush fires; billabogs, artesian water, Lake Eyre, the Murray ...
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