Australasian & Pacific history books

The Three Brothers presents an original and witty behind-the-scenes peek into the rough and tumble world of nation...  Read More >>

The story of the 19th century New Zealand Wars, a part of New Zealand's history that many people wish they knew...  Read More >>

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This is the story of the Downes family who live in the Byron Shire of New South Wales, Australia. My Grandfather...  Read More >>

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Reveals the intellectual complexities and internal struggles of the New Zealand anthropologist whose strident repudiation...  Read More >>

A small girl’s fascination with a battered old box of letters and photographs from a pioneer family in Queensland...  Read More >>

The Mabo court decision – which acknowledged indigenous people’s presence in the land, in history, and in public...  Read More >>

The book is a family history narrative on the life of Hugh Campbell (1841-1920) and his wife Margaret Fogarty (1836-1903)....  Read More >>

This colorful book introduces the Samoa Islands. It reveals a proud society that has withstood the Impact of colonization...  Read More >>

Artist Ugo Catani's 'A Summer Shower in Collins Street, 1889' sets the scene for walking the streets of Melbourne,...  Read More >>

This is the story of my family who were the Entrepreneurs of the Pastoral Industry in Australia. They ran the Byron...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from Christianity the Means of Civilization: Shown in the Evidence Given Before a Committee of the House...  Read More >>

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This book traces the life and times of young migrant following his escape, in 1959, from Britain to Melbourne, Australia...  Read More >>

An account of the Australian Force in Somalia in 1993. It includes an objective analysis of the Australian operation,...  Read More >>

"This translation of Krieger's 522-page, 1899 text is an ethnographical, anthropological and historical detailed,...  Read More >>

Edward John Eyres Manners and Customs of the Australian Aborigines and the State of their Relations with Europeans...  Read More >>

This book records the story of the oldest continuously operating cricket club still in existence in South Australia...  Read More >>

In late January 1944 a force of New Zealand soldiers and Allied specialists undertook a daring, behind the lines...  Read More >>

This fully illustrated study lifts the veil on two of history's last battleship-vs-battleship battles as the US...  Read More >>