From Kokoda to Kure (Volume 6. of "The Doctors at War" Series)
This is the final volume in the series of “Australian Doctors at War ”, and takes up the story from the conclusion of the Kokoda Campaign in January 1943. It documents the medical support given to the campaigns in New Guinea in 1944 and 1945, and the landings on Borneo in 1945. It includes the biographies of four hundred Australian doctors who ......
Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a swathe of destruction across the entire town. Few buildings escaped. Sixty-six people died, many of them on vessels which ......
The Foundation Years of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts
Sydney’s “oasis in the wilderness”, the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts was founded in 1833 to share scientific knowledge to the workingmen of Sydney’s European settlement. Emulating the mechanics’ movement in Britain, the founders hoped to change the individual and society. Dr Scanlon’s book shows the school during its formative years within the ......
Colonization, Indigenous Identities, and Critical Discourse Theory
In Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region, Diane Elizabeth Johnson explores the use of language in public spaces in four areas of the Pacific in which colonization has played a major role: Hawai'i, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Tahiti. She does so in a way that is both scholarly and accessible.
Crossing the Dead Heart is a classic narrative of modern exploration - and follows the first crossing of the Simpson desert by the author in 1939. From Charlotte Waters Madigan travelled by camel, camping at Andado Bore before heading east through the centre of the desert to Birdsville, then south by Goyder's Lagoon to the eastern shores of Lake ......
The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyns, the Bally gambling organization managing director, role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history.
Large format book with 100 photographs showing changing life in small communities around the Barrington Tops in northern New South Wales. These photographs were taken by Edgar Marceau, whose grandfather Joseph was exiled to Australia from Quebec in 1840. Marceau was a talented photographer who documented the Allyn Valley communities in the 1920s ......
