Download or read book The Book of Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Australia written by Don Watson and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic: Don Watson’s history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are – and what we might become. The Story of Australia weaves together the many strands of our nation’s past – ancient and indigenous, colonial and contemporary – to create a fascinating history for all readers, young and old. In clear, succinct language that both children and adults will appreciate, Watson guides readers from the ancient lands of Gondwana, through human settlement, colonisation and waves of migration, to the challenges facing our diverse nation today. Each era is brought to life in a series of beautifully illustrated spreads that capture a particular event or development – or give a snapshot of ordinary Australians at the time. Each chapter ends with a profile of a person, from the oldest Australian ever discovered, Mungo Woman, to pop icon Kylie Minogue. The Story of Australia will be treasured by children and families for years to come. Don Watson is the author of many acclaimed books for adults, including Caledonia Australis, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, American Journeys, The Bush and Watsonia. This is his first work for children.
Download or read book The Book of Australia written by Douglass Baglin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paper Empires 1946 2005 written by Craig Munro and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation " ... It is highly recommended to anyone who thinks they have a serious interest in the book ... or would like to discover to discover something of the complexity of the well-springs of the Australian psyche." Biblionews Paper Empires explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day, using wide-ranging research, oral history and memoir to explore the worlds of book publishing, selling and reading. After 1945, Australian publishing went from a handful of fledgling businesses to the billion dollar industry of today with thousands of new titles each year and a vast array of imported books. Publishing's postwar expansion began with the baby boom and the increased demand for school texts, with independent houses blossoming during the 1960s and 70s followed by the current era dominated by global conglomerates.
Download or read book A History of the Book in Australia 1891 1945 written by Martyn Lyons and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays and case studies outlining Australian book production and consumption, from the 1880s to the end of World War II. Explores all aspects of print culture including authorship, editing, design and printing, publication, distribution, bookselling, libraries and reading habits. Includes photos, contributor notes, bibliography and index. Two further books in the 'A History of the Book in Australia' project are planned. Lyons is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. He has previously written (with Lucy Taksa) 'Australian Readers Remember'. Arnold is Deputy Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University. He has previously co-edited the 'Biography of Australian Literature: A-E'.
Download or read book Book of Australia written by Simon Blackall and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Shorter History of Australia written by Geoffrey Blainey and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians. After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events that have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport; the suspicion of the tall poppy; the rivalries of Catholic and Protestant, Sydney and Melbourne, new and old homelands and new and old allies; the conflicts of war abroad and race at home; the importance of technology; defining the outback; the rise and rise of the mining industry; the recognition of our Aboriginal past and Native Title; the successes and failures of the nation. For this enlarged edition Blainey has rewritten or expanded on various episodes and themes and updated relevant matter. He has described significant events and trends of the early-20th century. A ready-reference timeline of major events in Australian history is also included. The Shorter history of Australia is a must for every home and library.
Download or read book The Year book of Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brief History of Australia written by Barbara A. West and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic facts, a chronology, a bibliography, and a list of suggested reading make up the appendixes. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book 9780642279163 written by Julie Murphy and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Australia is a poetic journey across the Australian landscape. Celebrating both the ancient and modern Australia, the book invites readers to travel across the delights of our continent - from dry deserts to lush rainforests, from high mountains to stormy seashores, from winding rivers to fertile swamplands - all the magical places that are my Australia.
Download or read book Story of Australia The written by Robert Lewis and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced in partnership with the National Museum of Australia, The Story of Australia is an accessible, essential history resource for every home How did Australia's earliest human inhabitants reach the island continent? Which discovery ushered in a new era of immigration, prosperity and technological advancement? How did a far-flung colony and military outpost transform into one of the wealthiest and most peaceful nations in the modern world? Dip into the pages to discover these answers and more ... This detailed illustrated history of Australia journeys from the formation of the continent to the growth of a modern, thriving nation. Clear, accessible text offers explanations of key events and the people behind them. From the enduring cultures of Australia's Indigenous people, European exploration and colonisation, and the tragic impacts of two world wars, The Story of Australia concludes with the exciting fast-paced development of the last decades of the 20th century. Produced in partnership with the National Museum of Australia, The Story of Australia draws on the museum's rich collection of objects, photographs and artefacts. Entertaining, colourful and inviting, The Story of Australia is the essential history resource for every home and library.
Download or read book Rivers written by Ian Hoskins and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Longlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards: Illustrated Non-Fiction* Rivers have long runin the blood of Australians. Givers of life and subjects of anguish, Australian rivershave shaped the nation from the moment the first Australians arrived tens ofthousands of years ago. Offering the vital ingredient for life, they are alsoguardians of culture, a means of transportation, sites for play and leisure,and sources of power--deeply entrenched in almost every aspect of human life andan irreplaceable part of the global ecosystem. Australia's vast inland seas of some 50 million years agohave disappeared, leaving a continent that is mostly desert. Of the waters andwetlands that remain, most of which are connected to rivers, 65 are listed asRamsar Wetlands of International Importance. They are also of incredible -- sometimespainful -- local importance, as reminders of the dispossession suffered by thosefirst peoples and their descendants and evidence of the devastation wrought bydrought and dying waterways. The damming of Western Australia's Ord River during the 1960sand 1970s captured monsoonal rains within a catchment of over 55,000 squarekilometres, creating the largest artificial lake on mainland Australia whiledestroying sites of cultural significance to the Miriwoong people and changingthe ecosystem irrevocably. Barely ten years after the completion of the Ord project,the success of the Save the Franklin campaign in Tasmania is a testament toevolving understanding of the precious nature of waterways. Yet even thistriumph was fraught: environmentalists' argument for preservation of Tasmania's'wilderness' contained the implication that the land was without people,despite Indigenous habitation for at least 30,000 years. In this broad-ranging survey of some of Australia's mostwell-known, loved, engineered and fought over rivers, from Melbourne's Yarra tothe Alligator rivers of Kakadu, award-winning author Ian Hoskins presents ahistory of our complex connections to water. A thoughtful foreword by former prime-ministerialspeechwriter Don Watson laments the price rivers have paid for human industryand calls for greater connection with the waterways we rely on for ourexistence. In 2015, Watson's The Bush -- partmemoir, part travelogue, part history -- was named the NSW Premier's LiteraryAwards book of the year and the Australian Independent Booksellers indie bookof the year.
Download or read book Introducing Australia written by Anita Ganeri and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2013 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces Australia, discussing its geography, natural resources, plants and animals, people, and culture.
Download or read book It s All About Australia Mate written by Denis Gregory and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining book is a light-hearted but factual look at the Australian way of life. It covers all aspects of 'the lucky country', including the main Aussie icons, the Aborigines, sport, pubs, 'kulture', taxi drivers, gambling, dress, language and the main cities. Little-known facts are given, nuggets of history are unearthed and surprising statistics are presented, together with a host of amusing stories and anecdotes. The book also includes a detailed look at Australia's unofficial national anthem, 'Waltzing Matilda', and the classic ballad, 'The Man from Snowy River'. It's All About Australia, Mate is a good read for anyone interested in our nearest neighbour and for anyone about to visit Australia. Unlike any other book on the market, this is the complete guide to the Australian way of life and a good laugh to go with it.
Download or read book A Short History of Australia written by Manning Clark and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with sticks and stones that the white man was not wanted.More than a decade after his death, Manning Clark remains Australia's most eminent and controversial historian. A Short History of Australia, considered by many to be his greatest work, charts the nation's social, cultural and political growth from the arrival of that first shipload of English convicts at Sydney Cove to the late twentieth century – with remarkable breadth of vision. His observations are as entertaining as they are enlightening.In this new edition, a postscript by his son Sebastian Clark brings the book right up-to-date, revealing many enduring parallels between the past and present.
Download or read book A Concise History of Australia written by Stuart Macintyre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations. It covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the 'Pacific solution'. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.
Download or read book Australia written by Sarah Tieck and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informative, easy-to-read text and oversized scenic photos draw in readers as they journey through Australia ? home of the vast Outback, the colorful Great Barrier Reef, and the iconic Sydney Opera House. Readers will learn about Australia?s history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps, a timeline with photos, fun facts, and pronunciation guides aid readers. The book closes with a facts page including Australia?s population and total area, as well as images of the Australian flag and currency. Students will find valuable report information while exploring Australia! Table of contents, glossary, and index included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy BOOKS is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
