Australia History Nonfiction

How an ancient land became a great democracy. Longlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative' Geoffrey Blainey, historian 'A fascinating book ... that negotiates all kinds of...

Australia is often seen as a young nation, defined by British colonization and modern settlement—but its story stretches far beyond European arrival. Home to one of the world's oldest continuous human cultures, Australia's Indigenous peoples developed sophisticated societies, laws, and land management practices over thousands of years, long before the First Fleet arrived in 1788.

Want to know what Vietnam was really like? A 3-Volume BOX SET with 200 veteran interviews, 688 Photos, 1,236 pages, and 4.6 Stars on 2,270 Amazon Reviews for the individual books, at half price! Real stories told by real people in their own words, men and women, caught up in an all too real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you'll understand. If you weren't, grab a copy and you will, because they’re like Doritos. Try a few and you won't be able to stop. The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. ...

How an ancient land became a great democracy. Longlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative' Geoffrey Blainey, historian 'A fascinating book ... that negotiates all kinds of...

“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly...

An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of New Zealand.

Take an alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Australia!

At the edge of the world, everything is intensified. Tasmania has always been a place apart. Separated from mainland Australia by the wild waters of Bass Strait, this small island carries within it a human story of extraordinary depth and consequence — one that stretches back forty thousand years to the first people who walked its mountain ranges, and forward to the battles being fought today over its ancient forests and warming seas. In Tassie: A History of Tasmania, Daniel Hardy brings the full sweep of that story to life with clarity, compassion, and an unflinching eye for the truths ...

This book comes out of years of reflection, failures, and some successes in the task of reaching out to others with the gospel. Many Christians think of the task of mission as an entirely verbal activity, when perhaps the best kept secret of New Testament teaching about mission is that it...

The Histories of New South Wales, Queensland & South Australia In One Collected Volume Three states. Sixty thousand years of First Nations custodianship. Two centuries of convicts, gold rushes, rum politics, world wars, premiers who built empires of patronage, and cities that remade themselves again and again. The States of Australia brings together Daniel Hardy's complete histories of New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia in a single volume — three vivid, sweeping narratives that together tell the story of a continent. In The Premier State, Hardy traces New South Wales from ...

A forgotten outbreak. A town in feathers. A nation on edge. In the blistering summer of 1930, the tranquil sugar towns of Queensland are rocked by an invasion of screeching green intruders. At first, it’s just a few parrots. Then hundreds. Then thousands. As crops are decimated and skies darken with feathers, panic takes hold and the government scrambles for answers. Told through the eyes of farmers, schoolteachers, reporters, and an eccentric birdcatcher named Arthur Finch, Polly Panic captures a bizarre chapter of Australian history where wildlife turned foe, hysteria spread faster than...

Long before Australia started to be considered one of the best places in the world to live, it was thought to be completely unlivable. In the 15th century, the European race to claim land began. Despite the fact that Australia was a large landmass, no nation believed it was worth colonizing. The land was claimed by the Netherlands. However, little exploration happened there. Many countries actually believed it to be uninhabitable. However, the Aboriginal populations had already been thriving on the land for millennia.

Australia and New Zealand invites readers on a journey to the far edge of the world, where landscapes are vast and empty, histories run deep, and the human spirit has been tested in every imaginable way. Across twelve vivid stories, this volume uncovers the characters and events that have shaped two remarkable nations. Travel alongside the first Aboriginal and Māori settlers as they establish themselves in these unfamiliar new environments, witness the tragic demise of the Batavia off the Western Australian coast, and join the courageous expedition of Burke and Wills as they attempt to ...

By a Walkley Award-winning journalist, a gripping true crime-meets-political intrigue about East Timor, a place where animistic belief, witchcraft and tribal conflict ensure that truth and justice follow separate, uncertain paths. A president shot, a prime minister attacked, a rebel leader...

Live the action of six deadly and seminal conflicts in Australia’s first 150 years: The Eureka Stockade – The Gold Miners of Ballarat’s bloody battle against Government tyranny. The Siege at Glenrowan – Australia’s most infamous outlaw, Ned Kelly, and his gang, shoot it out with the police. The Battle of Cocos Islands – The face-off between HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden would result in the Australian Navy’s first victory. The Broken Hill Massacre – A call to jihad in Turkey is the catalyst for the first terrorist act in Australia. The Battle of Surry Hills – A rambunctious ...

'Memoirs such as this will ensure we do not lose the struggle against "forgetting" - that sly accomplice of tyranny' Magda Szubanski In 1939, as Hitler's troops march on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but change their family...

In 1954, the system didn’t fail. It was stopped. Across New South Wales, dairy farmers reached a breaking point. What had always moved without question suddenly remained where it was produced. Milk gathered in yards instead of travelling to cities. Deliveries stalled. Shops adjusted. Households began to feel the absence. At first, it was seen as disruption. Then it became something else. A coordinated refusal that exposed how fragile even the most routine supply chains can be when the people inside them decide to stop carrying the weight. There were no dramatic confrontations. Only ...

A Sweeping History of Western Australia Before the gold rush made it famous, before the boom towns rose from red dust and ambition, Western Australia was the world's longest-running experiment in isolation. Covering an area larger than Western Europe, this vast and ancient land was home for tens of thousands of years to Aboriginal nations of extraordinary sophistication — the Noongar, the Martu, the Wongi — whose knowledge of country, law and ceremony gave shape to a continent long before any European eye glimpsed its shores. In The Golden State, Daniel Hardy tells the full story of how...

Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu, and now he has brought together the research and compelling first-person accounts in a book for younger listeners. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the listeners to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived.

A fascinating, funny and downright bizarre survey of culinary oddities by one of Australia’s most beloved comedians. In this irreverent romp through the history of food via the Seven Deadly Sins, Mikey Robins uncovers the most bizarre food-related stories of all time. From the Ancient...