Australasian & Pacific history books

Blue Water Warriors tells the story of the early Sydney to Hobart yacht races. Drawing on log books and memories...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 40: Part III.; February, 1909 Putting aside the question...  Read More >>

Blue Water Warriors tells the story of the early Sydney to Hobart yacht races. Drawing on log books and memories...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Crozet's Voyage to Tasmania, New Zealand, the Ladrone Islands, and the Philippines in the Years 1771-1772...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A Record of Tasmanian Nomenclature: With Dates and Origin It is curious to note, too, the sys tems...  Read More >>

There is no boasting. No point making, and, no suggestion that one person is better than the other. It is simply...  Read More >>

Many Australians now take great pride in tracing their convict heritage, but this has not always been the case....  Read More >>

​This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia...  Read More >>

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Ultimately it seeks to shine a light on and provide considerable detail to a much-ignored period in Australian Rules...  Read More >>

The book chronicles the life and deeds of Mary Pitt and her descendants from their arrival to Australia in 1801...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1899, Vol. 8 We know so little of Tongan history that nothing...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Naturalisation of Animals and Plants in New Zealand A historical account of the introduced animals...  Read More >>

When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Tahiti the Golden In Tahiti every mountain crag and dimpled valley has its tradition to enhance the...  Read More >>

The biography of Augustus Oldfield, 19th-century botanical collector and ethnographer in Australia.  Read More >>

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Australia is the land where opportunity knocks for everyone, no matter who you are, Australia is open and ready...  Read More >>

This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia,...  Read More >>

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