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  • Australia's Most Notorious Convicts: From thieves and bushrangers to murderers and cannibals

    Thousands of convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, some managed to escape incarceration and went on to achieve notoriety in their new land. A few tried to invent a Robin Hood reputation, taking the side of the poor settler against those in authority. Some committed crimes so heinous they were both feared and despised by the general population. Their lives were desperate, their fate ... En savoir plus

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    Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography

    par Robert Macklin ...
    'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as well as providing a portrait of the evolving colony.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDThe stirring untold story ... En savoir plus

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  • Australia's Great Explorers: Tales of tragedy and triumph

    par Denis Gregory ...
    The often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to, and it proved a daunting obstacle to settlement. However, a few brave and at times foolhardy men were determined to prove themselves equal to the challenge. AUSTRALIA'S GREAT EXPLORERS looks at the tragedies and triumphs of men such as Wentworth and Lawson, Hume and Hovell, Burke and ... En savoir plus

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  • Australia's Greatest Disasters: The tragedies that have defined the nation

    par John Miller ...
    Australia is a land of extremes where searing heat and devastating floods can both take their toll. It is also a land of vast distances, leaving it vulnerable to calamaties at sea, by rail and in the air. AUSTRALIAS GREATEST DISASTERS charts the events that have caused not only tragic loss of human life, but also economic and environmental devastation. From Cyclone Tracy and the Ash Wednesday ... En savoir plus

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  • Outback Australia: True Stories - Vol. 1

    Encounters with crocodiles, tussles with criminals, losing ships in cyclones ... these marvellous stories were originally published in the North Australian Fishing and Outdoors Magazine.These are true stories told by law enforcers, fishermen, scientists, historians and others.This book was compiled by Matt Flynn, a former Northern Territory of Australia journalist who now publishes outdoors ... En savoir plus

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  • Castaway!

    par Robert Carter ...
    The story of a stranding alone, on an island off the coast of New Zealand, of an English Clergyman. His survival, despair, and joy at rescue. ... En savoir plus

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  • From Cook to Convicts

    A Voyage of Adventure, Mayhem and Discovery

    par John Darkin ...
    Collections series Little Red Books
    In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions: to observe the transit of Venus and to find and chart the mythical "Great Southern Land". He succeeded in both tasks, despite he and his crew facing great hardship and danger, to complete one of the great voyages of exploration. But ... En savoir plus

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  • Australia's Greatest Inventions: From boomerangs to the Hills Hoist

    par Lynda de Lacey ...
    From the early invention of the boomerang as an effective hunting weapon to todays ground-breaking contributions to science and technology, Australians have always proven brilliantly adept at coming up with creative solutions to challenging problems. From manufacturing to agriculture, film to medicine, its likely that an Australian invention is making a valuable contribution to the way we live. ... En savoir plus

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  • My Droving Days

    Life on the long paddock

    Peter Moore left the city behind in 1952 to become part of a dying breed - a long-distance drover. In My Droving Days we follow his progress through the 1950s as he rubs shoulders with the larger-than-life characters - and their dogs and horses - who trekked along the outback stock routes of western Queensland and New South Wales.Meet the world's worst cattle dog and the station hand, Charlie, who ... En savoir plus

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  • The Jerilderie Letter

    par Ned Kelly ...
    Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854 – 1880) was an Australian bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he murdered three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his ... En savoir plus

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  • First Fleet

    par M Howard Morgan ...
    Collections series A Jack Vizzard story
    Love, murder, betrayal, and adventure with transportation of convicts in 1787 and the founding of the penal colony that became Australia.With the American colonies closed to Britain, the gaols overflowed, the criminal under-class posed a threat to the property clazzes. A solution was required. The answer lay in the continent on the far side of the world - Terra Australis Incognita.'Discovered' by ... En savoir plus

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  • Down to the Sea

    par John Little ...
    For over a century the Warren family has earned a hard and dangerous living, fishing out of Eden on the south coast of New South Wales. From the family's first fisherman, Old Ike, plying the coast in an open sailing boat in the late nineteenth century, to the Warrens today, using satellites and computers; from handlining to the brutal efficiency of purse seining, we witness a century of profound ... En savoir plus

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