Best Australia Oceania Books
Best Free Australia Oceania Books of 2024
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A Source Book of Australian History Book Reviews
Gwendolen H. SwinburneThe Spaniard Torres was probably the first European to sight Australia (Cape Yorke); but Tasman was the first who consciously discovered the Great South Land. In his search for fre...
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Mugga-Mugga Interactive Tour Book Reviews
David Hebblethwaite & Margaret BetteridgeAn interactive audio guide to MuggaMugga, a unique family cottage outside Canberra, ACT. The house is held in trust by ACT Historic Places.
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Contact History Book Reviews
Alexander PetroccoThis book is based on the program 'Contact History' at St Agnes College. This book looks at Australian settlement and relations between Aboriginal Australians and the Bri...
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Built On Stone Book Reviews
Michael FreedmanA look at the history and the suburb I live in. Sydney Australia is a lovely place and there are many lovely suburbs but Arncliffe is where I have been living for the past thirty y...
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Land fit for heroes Book Reviews
Garry Reynolds“This book is about how in the lead up to World War 1, Australia became a nation and how Australians relished their new status in the British Empire, which was under increasing cha...
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The Anzacs of Gallipoli Book Reviews
Daphney AdamsThe Anzacs of Gallipoli is a book for the study of Australian involvement in the Gallipoli campaign of World War One in 1915. It delves into the experiences of the Australian force...
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Lanyon Homestead Interactive Tour Book Reviews
David HebblethwaiteAn Interactive Tour of Lanyon Homestead, a unique house museum in Canberra, ACT, Australia. The house is cared for by ACT Historic Places.
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Mapoon under the Moravians 1891-1919 Book Reviews
John HarrisonFounded in 1891 to prevent Aboriginal people being kidnapped to work on pearl shelling boats, and burned to the ground in 1963 with its remaining population forcibly removed from t...
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My Diary of the Great War Book Reviews
Jack Hislop BirchA personal Diary of the First World War by New Zealand soldier Jack Hislop Birch. Fought on the battlefields of Gallipoli Palestine and Sainai.
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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson Book Reviews
Watkin TenchIn May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of the crew on board the Charlotte...
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The Long White Cloud Book Reviews
William Pember ReevesThis book describes the history of New Zealand, the land which for beauty is an earthly paradise, of which the social laws are so near perfection that there are no paupers and no m...
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Life in the Past Book Reviews
Lyn PerrigoThis book is written for junior students to understand what life was like for children in the past. It is targeted for schools in Western Australia but much of it would suit school...
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Australian Search Party Book Reviews
Charles Henry EdenIn a former narrative, published in the preceding volume of the ILLUSTRATED TRAVELS, I gave an account of a terrible cyclone which visited the north eastern coast of Queensland in ...
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Australia And How To Find It Book Reviews
Patsy TrenchWHY were men and women in New South Wales once ordered to wear skirts for sea bathing? WHAT did famous writers such as Mark Twain and Anthony Trollope have to say about Australia? ...
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Ganbulapula Book Reviews
Djalinda YunupinguThis is the story of Ganbulapula, the ceremonial manager, the singing man. This story takes place at Gulkula, for the Matjurr people, whom we now know as fruit bats. As a funeral, ...
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Tino Rangatiratanga Book Reviews
Te Whai Mātauranga Meiporo SmithHe pukapuka tēnei e pā ana ki te rohe o Whangaroa ki te Tai Tokerau. Ko te Tino Rangatiratanga te kaupapa matua o te pukapuka nei. I waihanga mai ki te tautoko i te whakaaturanga o...
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The Prehistory of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Book Reviews
Alexander CambitoglouA history of the steps that led to the creation of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in 1980
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Early Explorers Book Reviews
Alexander WatsonThis book is about the early explorers of Australia, it is for school students. The introduction gives a brief overview of the explorers in the book as well as some interactive wid...
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New Zealand Fly Fishing Holidays Book Reviews
Green JourneysA guide to New Zealand's best fly fishing lodges and regions. Two itineraries from Green Journeys through New Zealand's north and south islands.
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Casarsesi in Australia Book Reviews
Nancie ClarkeMany books have been written about Casarsa, an inordinate amount considering its size and importance in the world.  This in no small way can be attributed to the author, p...
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Our Anzac Story Book Reviews
Lyn PerrigoThis book provides information for primary school aged children about Australia’s involvement in World War One and in particular, the Gallipoli Campaign on 25 April 1915 and the su...
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Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales Book Reviews
John OxleyIt is a historical book. The colony had been established many years before any successful attempt had been made to penetrate into the interior of the country, by crossing the range...
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Town Life in Australia Book Reviews
Richard Ernest Nowell TwopenyTown Life in Australia is a Book of History. The book describes that Although most educated people know that Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide are populous towns, I should doubt whet...
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Black Anzacs Book Reviews
Elizabeth ShenstoneThere is an increasing recognition of the contributions of Aboriginal servicemen and women to their country during the First World War and other conflicts in which Australia has be...
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Australia in Brief Book Reviews
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and TradeAustralia in Brief provides an authoritative overview of Australia's history, the land, its people and their way of life. It also looks at Australia's economic, scientifi...
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Frank Robinson Book Reviews
Diana BlomFrank Nestor Robinson left New Zealand in 1915 to fight in Gallipoli and died that same year. The only son, his letters, to one of his sisters plus documents from his military serv...
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The Lennox Trail Book Reviews
Cavorter & Information and Cultural ExchangeA path of discovery where you can also learn about yourself, your attachment to place, home, and connection to the world around you. Using this book as a guide, w...
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Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 Book Reviews
George GreyA historical book which tells expeditions to NorthWest Australia and western Australia .In this 1841 publication, Grey writes about two expeditions to NorthWest Australia that took...
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In Search Of A New Zealand National Identity Book Reviews
Justin CahillThis is an introduction to whether there is a distinctive New Zealand national identity and, if so, what prompted its development, what sustains it and whether it has changed chara...
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A Common Story Book Reviews
Aldo GiavittoYou'll be able to read about Aldo’s life journey beginning in Faedis, Italy, his birthplace in 1925. Aldo recounts his early life in Italy, the time he spent as a soldier in W...
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Laperouse Book Reviews
Ernest ScottAll Sydney people, and most of those who have visited the city, have seen the tall monument to Laperouse overlooking Botany Bay. Many have perhaps read a little about him, and know...
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Austral English Book Reviews
Edward Ellis MorrisThis is an Australia dictionary book. Australia (chiefly through the kindness of the newspapers), few could really give the origin of the words. Two amongst the best informed went ...
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Preliminary Report On the Material Culture of Burials from the Lang Park Redevelopment Site Book Reviews
Adrian MurphyThe archaeological excavation of Lang Park in Brisbane, was the largest work completed on a cemetery in Australia. The material culture removed has shown aspects of the Victorian p...
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John Laurie and the Rum Hospital Book Reviews
Justin Cahill2016 is the bicentenary of the opening of Sydney’s ‘Rum Hospital.’ It earned its name from the partial monopoly Governor Macquarie granted to three local merchants to import rum in...
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Halfway Creek Book Reviews
Michael Patrick MooreHalfway Creek spans the lives of the Brady and McGregor families, from their convict beginnings in NSW to their time as store owners during the heady days of the Victorian gold rus...
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The Espy Campaign 1997-2003 Book Reviews
Krystyna KynstThe Esplanade Hotel (The Espy) has graced St Kilda’s foreshore promenade since 1878. For almost a century, its stages have hosted the finest performers from Australia and the world...
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If walls could speak Book Reviews
Department for Education and Child Development, South AustraliaThis eBook is a reflective journey into the lives of five people whose stories are connected. Each of them spent time on the site that was known as the Destitute Asylum from 1851 ...
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Something Borrowed Book Reviews
Parliament of VictoriaMeeting together for the first time in 1901, Australia’s new Commonwealth Parliament settled into life in Melbourne, the nation’s first capital.  It was a time of nationbu...
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Spinifex and Sand Book Reviews
David Wynford CarnegieUnfolding in Western Australia, this work is a true depiction of the days spent by Carnegie in that area. The pages profess to be no more than a faithful narrative of five years sp...
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History of Australia and New Zealand Book Reviews
Alexander SutherlandTo the people who lived four centuries ago in Europe only a very small portion of the earth's surface was known. Their geography was confined to the regions lying immediately ...
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Narrative of An Expedition into Central Australia Book Reviews
Charles SturtExplorer Charles Sturt provides a “faithful description” of the Australian interior and the severe conditions his expedition party endured there. The book also contains many engrav...
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Postmortem Studies Book Reviews
National Portrait Gallery of AustraliaSixteen drawings by Alfred Bock (1835–1920) of people – including small children – shortly after they passed away.
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Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia Book Reviews
William John WillsSuccessful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia is a historical book. A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials ...
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RCBBC ENEWS 2 Book Reviews
Tony AnstattNick Lloyd (1990’s teacher) has made News Headlines this week, for his Supreme Court trial. SPECIAL Edition As a result of this unexpected release, RCbbc Blog were casting along 12...
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Settling the Western Suburbs Book Reviews
The Grove LibraryEnjoy an annotated history of the development of the Western Suburbs.   Created using community donated digital imagery and information, readers can examine the events whi...
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A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay Book Reviews
Watkin TenchCaptain Tench has here given a very satisfactory general account of the voyage of the fleet appointed for the conveyance of the convicts to Botany Bay. On their arrival there, find...
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Australia Revenged Book Reviews
pseud. BoomerangIt Would you care to go to the Mayor's garden party this afternoon? she asked. What, a garden party today, after dancing till three in the morning! In England they would just ...
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Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Book Reviews
Frank JardineFrancis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine (18411919), and his younger brother, Alexander William Jardine (18431920), travelled 1200 miles from Rockhampton to Somerset (both in Queensland, ...
Best Paid Australia Oceania Books of 2024
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A Source Book of Australian History Book Reviews
Gwendolen H. SwinburneThe Spaniard Torres was probably the first European to sight Australia (Cape Yorke); but Tasman was the first who consciously discovered the Great South Land. In his search for fre...
-
Mugga-Mugga Interactive Tour Book Reviews
David Hebblethwaite & Margaret BetteridgeAn interactive audio guide to MuggaMugga, a unique family cottage outside Canberra, ACT. The house is held in trust by ACT Historic Places.
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Contact History Book Reviews
Alexander PetroccoThis book is based on the program 'Contact History' at St Agnes College. This book looks at Australian settlement and relations between Aboriginal Australians and the Bri...
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Built On Stone Book Reviews
Michael FreedmanA look at the history and the suburb I live in. Sydney Australia is a lovely place and there are many lovely suburbs but Arncliffe is where I have been living for the past thirty y...
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Land fit for heroes Book Reviews
Garry Reynolds“This book is about how in the lead up to World War 1, Australia became a nation and how Australians relished their new status in the British Empire, which was under increasing cha...
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The Anzacs of Gallipoli Book Reviews
Daphney AdamsThe Anzacs of Gallipoli is a book for the study of Australian involvement in the Gallipoli campaign of World War One in 1915. It delves into the experiences of the Australian force...
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Lanyon Homestead Interactive Tour Book Reviews
David HebblethwaiteAn Interactive Tour of Lanyon Homestead, a unique house museum in Canberra, ACT, Australia. The house is cared for by ACT Historic Places.
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Mapoon under the Moravians 1891-1919 Book Reviews
John HarrisonFounded in 1891 to prevent Aboriginal people being kidnapped to work on pearl shelling boats, and burned to the ground in 1963 with its remaining population forcibly removed from t...
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My Diary of the Great War Book Reviews
Jack Hislop BirchA personal Diary of the First World War by New Zealand soldier Jack Hislop Birch. Fought on the battlefields of Gallipoli Palestine and Sainai.
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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson Book Reviews
Watkin TenchIn May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of the crew on board the Charlotte...
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The Long White Cloud Book Reviews
William Pember ReevesThis book describes the history of New Zealand, the land which for beauty is an earthly paradise, of which the social laws are so near perfection that there are no paupers and no m...
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Life in the Past Book Reviews
Lyn PerrigoThis book is written for junior students to understand what life was like for children in the past. It is targeted for schools in Western Australia but much of it would suit school...
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Australian Search Party Book Reviews
Charles Henry EdenIn a former narrative, published in the preceding volume of the ILLUSTRATED TRAVELS, I gave an account of a terrible cyclone which visited the north eastern coast of Queensland in ...
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Australia And How To Find It Book Reviews
Patsy TrenchWHY were men and women in New South Wales once ordered to wear skirts for sea bathing? WHAT did famous writers such as Mark Twain and Anthony Trollope have to say about Australia? ...
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Ganbulapula Book Reviews
Djalinda YunupinguThis is the story of Ganbulapula, the ceremonial manager, the singing man. This story takes place at Gulkula, for the Matjurr people, whom we now know as fruit bats. As a funeral, ...
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Tino Rangatiratanga Book Reviews
Te Whai Mātauranga Meiporo SmithHe pukapuka tēnei e pā ana ki te rohe o Whangaroa ki te Tai Tokerau. Ko te Tino Rangatiratanga te kaupapa matua o te pukapuka nei. I waihanga mai ki te tautoko i te whakaaturanga o...
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The Prehistory of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Book Reviews
Alexander CambitoglouA history of the steps that led to the creation of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in 1980
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Early Explorers Book Reviews
Alexander WatsonThis book is about the early explorers of Australia, it is for school students. The introduction gives a brief overview of the explorers in the book as well as some interactive wid...
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New Zealand Fly Fishing Holidays Book Reviews
Green JourneysA guide to New Zealand's best fly fishing lodges and regions. Two itineraries from Green Journeys through New Zealand's north and south islands.
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Casarsesi in Australia Book Reviews
Nancie ClarkeMany books have been written about Casarsa, an inordinate amount considering its size and importance in the world.  This in no small way can be attributed to the author, p...
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Our Anzac Story Book Reviews
Lyn PerrigoThis book provides information for primary school aged children about Australia’s involvement in World War One and in particular, the Gallipoli Campaign on 25 April 1915 and the su...
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Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales Book Reviews
John OxleyIt is a historical book. The colony had been established many years before any successful attempt had been made to penetrate into the interior of the country, by crossing the range...
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Town Life in Australia Book Reviews
Richard Ernest Nowell TwopenyTown Life in Australia is a Book of History. The book describes that Although most educated people know that Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide are populous towns, I should doubt whet...
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Black Anzacs Book Reviews
Elizabeth ShenstoneThere is an increasing recognition of the contributions of Aboriginal servicemen and women to their country during the First World War and other conflicts in which Australia has be...
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Australia in Brief Book Reviews
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and TradeAustralia in Brief provides an authoritative overview of Australia's history, the land, its people and their way of life. It also looks at Australia's economic, scientifi...
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Frank Robinson Book Reviews
Diana BlomFrank Nestor Robinson left New Zealand in 1915 to fight in Gallipoli and died that same year. The only son, his letters, to one of his sisters plus documents from his military serv...
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The Lennox Trail Book Reviews
Cavorter & Information and Cultural ExchangeA path of discovery where you can also learn about yourself, your attachment to place, home, and connection to the world around you. Using this book as a guide, w...
-
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 Book Reviews
George GreyA historical book which tells expeditions to NorthWest Australia and western Australia .In this 1841 publication, Grey writes about two expeditions to NorthWest Australia that took...
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In Search Of A New Zealand National Identity Book Reviews
Justin CahillThis is an introduction to whether there is a distinctive New Zealand national identity and, if so, what prompted its development, what sustains it and whether it has changed chara...
-
A Common Story Book Reviews
Aldo GiavittoYou'll be able to read about Aldo’s life journey beginning in Faedis, Italy, his birthplace in 1925. Aldo recounts his early life in Italy, the time he spent as a soldier in W...
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Laperouse Book Reviews
Ernest ScottAll Sydney people, and most of those who have visited the city, have seen the tall monument to Laperouse overlooking Botany Bay. Many have perhaps read a little about him, and know...
-
Austral English Book Reviews
Edward Ellis MorrisThis is an Australia dictionary book. Australia (chiefly through the kindness of the newspapers), few could really give the origin of the words. Two amongst the best informed went ...
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Preliminary Report On the Material Culture of Burials from the Lang Park Redevelopment Site Book Reviews
Adrian MurphyThe archaeological excavation of Lang Park in Brisbane, was the largest work completed on a cemetery in Australia. The material culture removed has shown aspects of the Victorian p...
-
John Laurie and the Rum Hospital Book Reviews
Justin Cahill2016 is the bicentenary of the opening of Sydney’s ‘Rum Hospital.’ It earned its name from the partial monopoly Governor Macquarie granted to three local merchants to import rum in...
-
Halfway Creek Book Reviews
Michael Patrick MooreHalfway Creek spans the lives of the Brady and McGregor families, from their convict beginnings in NSW to their time as store owners during the heady days of the Victorian gold rus...
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The Espy Campaign 1997-2003 Book Reviews
Krystyna KynstThe Esplanade Hotel (The Espy) has graced St Kilda’s foreshore promenade since 1878. For almost a century, its stages have hosted the finest performers from Australia and the world...
-
If walls could speak Book Reviews
Department for Education and Child Development, South AustraliaThis eBook is a reflective journey into the lives of five people whose stories are connected. Each of them spent time on the site that was known as the Destitute Asylum from 1851 ...
-
Something Borrowed Book Reviews
Parliament of VictoriaMeeting together for the first time in 1901, Australia’s new Commonwealth Parliament settled into life in Melbourne, the nation’s first capital.  It was a time of nationbu...
-
Spinifex and Sand Book Reviews
David Wynford CarnegieUnfolding in Western Australia, this work is a true depiction of the days spent by Carnegie in that area. The pages profess to be no more than a faithful narrative of five years sp...
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History of Australia and New Zealand Book Reviews
Alexander SutherlandTo the people who lived four centuries ago in Europe only a very small portion of the earth's surface was known. Their geography was confined to the regions lying immediately ...
-
Narrative of An Expedition into Central Australia Book Reviews
Charles SturtExplorer Charles Sturt provides a “faithful description” of the Australian interior and the severe conditions his expedition party endured there. The book also contains many engrav...
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Postmortem Studies Book Reviews
National Portrait Gallery of AustraliaSixteen drawings by Alfred Bock (1835–1920) of people – including small children – shortly after they passed away.
-
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia Book Reviews
William John WillsSuccessful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia is a historical book. A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials ...
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RCBBC ENEWS 2 Book Reviews
Tony AnstattNick Lloyd (1990’s teacher) has made News Headlines this week, for his Supreme Court trial. SPECIAL Edition As a result of this unexpected release, RCbbc Blog were casting along 12...
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Settling the Western Suburbs Book Reviews
The Grove LibraryEnjoy an annotated history of the development of the Western Suburbs.   Created using community donated digital imagery and information, readers can examine the events whi...
-
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay Book Reviews
Watkin TenchCaptain Tench has here given a very satisfactory general account of the voyage of the fleet appointed for the conveyance of the convicts to Botany Bay. On their arrival there, find...
-
Australia Revenged Book Reviews
pseud. BoomerangIt Would you care to go to the Mayor's garden party this afternoon? she asked. What, a garden party today, after dancing till three in the morning! In England they would just ...
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Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Book Reviews
Frank JardineFrancis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine (18411919), and his younger brother, Alexander William Jardine (18431920), travelled 1200 miles from Rockhampton to Somerset (both in Queensland, ...