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Indian Ocean
By: Pearson, Michael
Published by: Routledge
In this stimulating and authoritative overview, the autor looks from the sea to its shores - the land areas it influences through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration.
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Price: $37.95
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An Irresistible Temptation
By: Baxter, Carol
Published by: Allen & Unwin
Seduction, dramatic escapes, embezzlement and political intrigue aplenty in this story of the convict, Jane New, and the scandal that rocked Australia's early colony to its core.
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Price: $21.50
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Island at the End of the World
By: Fischer, Steven Roger
Published by: Reaktion Books
Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c. AD 700. Centuries later the islands statues were famous throughout the world. This book presents a comprehensive history of Easter Island told by a writer who is intimately familiar with the island, its people and their extraordinary story. When voyaging in the South Pacific became far less widespread around 1500, Easter Islanders became stranded on their desert-like isle, and were forced to adapt to survive. The first European visitors, in 1722, encountered a people thriving in total isolation, surrounded by huge architectural platforms of fitted stones topped by hundreds of monolithic busts. Subsequent intruders brought trade, disease, violence, and the Easter Islanders adapted to this change, too, through cultural re-invention: new leaders, new rituals, new gods. Steven Roger Fischer relates the compelling history of this unique region: how wars, smallpox and the Great Death decimated the island, how Catholic missionaries arrived in 1866 to relieve the suffering of the dying people, and how a despotic Frenchman claimed the island for himself, but who was then killed by the remaining islanders a population of only 111. The author also examines the modern history of the island, its colonization and annexation by Chile, and its peaceful but insistent civil rights movement in 1964-65. Today, the population has increased, as has tourism of the island from 2,000 visitors in 1991 to 20,000 in 2001 and continues to be managed by the indigenous Rapanui people. Foreign interest in Easter Island has never been so keen, and this book is a much-needed history of this little-known but remarkable island.
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Price: $24.95
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It's True! Bushrangers Lost Their Heads
By: Barwick, John
Published by: Allen & Unwin
Stories of bearded brigands and odd outlaws. This is the twenty-third title in the fantastic non-fiction series, It's True!
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Price: $9.50
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Jackson's Track Revisited
By: Landon, Carolyn
Published by: Monash University ePress
In Jackson's Track Revisited Carolyn Landon returns to the story told by Daryl Tonkin in Jackson's Track (Penguin, Australia, 1999) the tale of his life in the great Gippsland forest living among Aboriginal timber workers. Just as his family hoped, Tonkin's memoir has created the space for more stories. In Jackson's Track Revisited, the voices of Aboriginal people who lived at the Track mingle with those of the White Australians who tried to 'improve' their lives in the 1950s, the era of assimilation. An exploration of the historical factors surrounding Tonkin's story leads to discussion of the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board, the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League and the policy of assimilation that was so prevalent in mid-twentieth century Australia.
This concise book contains many surprises. The new stories take complex twists and turns as Landon explores the motives of all the players and this involves revisiting Tonkin's own memories. As Landon seeks others' interpretations of events, she also analyses her own changing understandings, uncovering the prejudices she, as interviewer, researcher and historian, has brought to the project. The testimony of one Aboriginal participant is particularly unforeseen and forthright. It shows that the way the Kurnai people see themselves has escaped the constructions White Australians have placed upon them ever since invasion.
Finally, Jackson's Track Revisited focuses on the friendship between Landon and Pauline Mullett, daughter of Daryl Tonkin. Mullett leads Landon into her existing culture a culture which many White people believed no longer existed helping Landon to find meaning in all the stories.
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Price: $11.30
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The Jews in Australia
By: Rutland, Suzanne D.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This book traces the Jewish community's history from its convict origins in 1788 through to today's vibrant Jewish culture in Australia, and highlights the social and cultural impact the Jews have had on Australia. The book also explores how Jews, as Australia's first ethnic group, have integrated into multicultural Australia.
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Price: $27.00
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Kick the Tin
By: Kartinyeri, Doris
Published by: Spinifex Press
Doris Kartinyeri is a Ngarrindjeri woman and one of thousands of Aboriginal people stolen from her family and institutionalised in a home for Aboriginal children. This book tells the story of maintaining a sense of aboriginality in the face of cultural destruction. Her book details the South Australian Aboriginal
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Last Out
By: Taylor, Jerry
Published by: Allen & Unwin
4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) Battalion's second tour in Vietnam
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Price: $39.95
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The Letters of George and Elizabeth Bass
By: Estensen, Miriam
Published by: Allen & Unwin
An beautiful and tragic love story told through the letters explorer George Bass exchanged with his new, young wife Elizabeth during their very short marriage. Theirs was a passionate and extraordinary love affair carried out across the oceans, a love that Elizabeth never let go as she wrote increasingly despairing letters to her husband already lost at sea.
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Price: $36.00
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