Australasian & Pacific history books

Excerpt from Marlborough Sounds: The Waters of Restfulness Restfulness is the keynote of the Marlborough Sounds....  Read More >>

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Excerpt from The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles When I learnt the name of the clergyman, on reaching that stage in...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 1 of 2 You are collecting and using it. Possession of your own 1ands,...  Read More >>

"Die Kampfhandlungen im Pazifik wahrend des Ersten Weltkrieges sind in der Forschung lange vernachlassigt worden....  Read More >>

In this vital and illuminating book, Peter Cochrane examines how the racial preoccupations that shaped Australia's...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Forty Years on the Pacific: The Lure of the Great Ocean, a Book of Reference for the Traveler From...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Defence of Great and Greater Britain: Sketches of Its Naval, Military, and Political Aspects; Annotated...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Four Years in Queensland In addition to my own observations I have availed myself of the various reliable...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Northmost Australia, Vol. 1 of 2 HE Cape York Peninsula, forming, as it does, the link binding the...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Northmost Australia, Vol. 2 of 2 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...  Read More >>

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L'ensemble des grandes colonies britanniques des Antipodes, que les Anglais designent sous le nom d'Australasie,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Our New Possession: Late German New Guinea When our globe was still young, mighty vol canio forces...  Read More >>

The 'black 1880s' were a hard time for many in the new colony of New Zealand. Family letters provide the basis for...  Read More >>

This first book by K. Langloh Parker is still one of the best available collections of Australian Aboriginal folklore....  Read More >>

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Excerpt from A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Maeander: With Portions of the Private Journal of...  Read More >>

This omnibus volume brings 'Battle for Crete', 'Desert Duel' and 'Italian Odyssey' together in one binding - a trilogy...  Read More >>

Aussie heroes who have proved themselves on the battlefield as well as on the sporting field. Members of the Wallabies,...  Read More >>

The Enlightenment begot a panoply of ideas, of which the notion of social progress is one of the most salient. It...  Read More >>

""Wright is one who has been able to place himself within the culture and sense the history...This new book is a...  Read More >>

""What if Katherine Mansfield had drawn a diary comic? Misery, despair, existential angst - all rendered through...  Read More >>