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  • Enchantment by Birds

    a history of birdwatching in 22 species

    par Russell McGregor ...
    A fresh appreciation of the magic of birds and how watching them fulfils a human need to connect with nature.Enchantment by birds is commonplace. Birdwatchers merely go a step further than others and actively seek to be enchanted. This book tells why they take that extra step. It takes the reader on a series of excursions into birdwatching’s past, venturing forward to the present. With an ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • Imagined Destinies

    Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880–1939

    par Russell McGregor ...
    White Australians once confidently—if regretfully—believed that the Aboriginal people were doomed to extinction. Even in the 1950s, Australian children were still being taught that the Australian Aboriginals were a dying race who would eventually disappear from the face of the earth.In Imagined Destinies, Russell McGregor explores the origins and the gradual demise of the 'doomed race' theory, ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Indifferent Inclusion

    Aboriginal people and the Australian nation

    par Russell McGregor ...
    McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Combining the perspectives of political, social and cultural history in a coherent narrative, he provides a cogent analysis of how the relationship changed, and the impediments to change. ... En savoir plus

    $32.79 CAD

  • Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia

    Revisiting the Empty North

    par Russell McGregor ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This new study offers a timely and compelling account of why past generations of Australians have seen the north of the country as an empty land, and how those perceptions of Australia’s tropical regions impact current policy and shape the self-image of the nation. It considers the origins of these concerns - from fears of invasion and moral qualms about leaving resources lying idle, from ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901

    par Tim Rowse ...
    As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Truth-Telling

    History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

    par Henry Reynolds ...
    If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Reef

    A Passionate History

    par Iain McCalman ...
    Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Frayed Atlantic Edge

    A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel

    par David Gange ...
    COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE‘This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit’ Adam NicolsonOver the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to south: every ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    par Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Madagascar: The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in a Lost World

    par Peter Tyson ...
    Madagascar is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. KKnown as the Great Red Island, it is a place where fossa and tenrecs, vangas and aye ayes thrive in a true 'Lost World' alongside bizarre plants like the octopus tree and the three-cornered palm. And where the ancestors of the Malagasy, as the island's 18 tribes are collectively known, come alive ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Silence

    The history and memory of South Australia's frontier wars

    par Robert Foster, Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would be as much "under the safeguard of the law as the Colonists themselves, and equally entitled to the ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Edge of Memory

    Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World

    par Patrick Nunn ...
    How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future?In today's society it is the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend – after all, human memory is unreliable, and how can you be sure your friend hasn't embellished the facts? But ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD