Australasian & Pacific history books

The National Library of Australia describe Keith Murdoch's Gallipoli Letter in the following way: ""The Gallipoli...  Read More >>

Preparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism...  Read More >>

Fallen Now Forgotten tells the stories of soldiers killed in action during World War 1 who, today have no one to...  Read More >>

A look through the kitchen window into early rural life in Aotearoa.  Read More >>

This nineteenth century social history is written by Gail Barnes, the great, great granddaughter of Catherine McKinnon....  Read More >>

While there was anti-Semitism in Japan since the early 1920s, there was also philo-Semitism and great admiration...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the last three months of Robert O’Hara Burke, William John Wills, and John King on Cooper’s...  Read More >>

Stories of migration are very much part of the Australian experience. In most homes in Australia, you will find...  Read More >>

Cyclone Tracy was one of the most damaging disasters to ever impact Australia. The story of the terrible night of...  Read More >>

The CAC Boomerang has a unique place in Australian aviation history, being the nation’s only home designed and produced...  Read More >>

This is the rollicking tale of Australia's first true adventure playground, when children were allowed to use a...  Read More >>

The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders'...  Read More >>

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Blackman draws on original material and the work of many earlier researchers to paint a verbal picture of the evolution...  Read More >>

From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography...  Read More >>

The amazing true story of Harry Freame, who was raised as a samurai in Japan before becoming an Anzac and saving...  Read More >>

The National Library of Australia describes Keith Murdoch's Gallipoli Letter in the following way: ""The Gallipoli...  Read More >>

The National Library of Australia describes Keith Murdoch's Gallipoli Letter in the following way: ""The Gallipoli...  Read More >>

Flynn's Bar immerses the reader into 1930s French Polynesia and stories of the sea. Flynn's Bar is a focal point...  Read More >>

Exposing the savagery amongst native tribes of Cape York and the Torres Strait Islands in the 19th century. The...  Read More >>

Offers a monumental history of Hawai’i, from the beginnings and political rise of Kamehameha I, the negotiations...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, 12 years after the death of its author, Rebellion at Coranderrk was an attempt to rectify...  Read More >>

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This book tells the story of the author's Scottish ancestors who, in 1839, emigrated to Port Phillip, Australia...  Read More >>

Offers a monumental history of Hawai’i, from the beginnings and political rise of Kamehameha I, the negotiations...  Read More >>