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Finding the Heart of the Nation 2nd edition: The Journey of the Uluru
In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation , Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak...
Evidence Not Seen
The True Story of One Woman's Triumph of Faith Newlywed American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose survived four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp set deep in the jungles of...
Playground
The latest novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR...
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in
'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...
Voyages To The South Seas
Through revolution and empire, war and bloodshed, France remained fascinated with Australia, sending expeditions of dedicated young men to explore the utopian Paradise of the Pacific and Australia to the...
The Lightning Ridge Ladies
The heartwarming new rural romance from the bestselling author of Back to Birdsville. Still heartbroken after the death of her twin brother, Dr Bella Grey moves to Lightning Ridge for...
Passage to Torres Strait: Four Centuries in the Wake of Great
In his early twenties Miles Hordern first crossed the oceans from Northern to Southern Hemisphere, but one final leg of his round the world journey eluded him for twelve more...
Start Digging, You Bastards!: Australian and New Zealand forces'
'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back,...
Worlds Apart
The Pacific Islands remain for most people a region of obscurity or puzzlement. The attention of news media is attracted by atypical events such as political violence that contradict the...
A WWII Soldier in the Pacific: During and After 1943-1945
Anyone familiar with WWII studies in the Pacific will recognize the name Eugene B. Sledge. The author, who corresponded with Sledge 30 years ago, shared the experience of serving on...
Sharing the Climb
Sharing the Climb traces the development of the Anglican mission in Oro (Northern) Province in Papua New Guinea from 1948 to 1967 through the experiences of Sister Nancy White.
The New Friendly Islanders
This tiny archipelago of islands in the South Pacific has so far avoided republican overthrow and military coup, unlike its neighbour Fiji. What are its chances of surviving intact into...
Food for the Flames
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Twenty-five years after Captain Cook, the London Missionary Society sent its first representatives to the South Seas. Their goal was to eradicate heathenism and idolatry, but unwittingly, they became agents...
Sevens Heaven: The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji's Olympic Dream: WINNER OF
WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'Brutally honest . . . A moving, candid tale of a coach taking the plunge with a rugby ball as...
Wildlife Worlds: Australasia and Antarctica
This stunning six-book series explores some of Earth's iconic landmarks and habitats, and the plants and animals that live there. They are illustrated with beautiful photographs that will inspire readers...
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and...
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure
'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review...
Julia: The Sunday Times Bestseller
"a fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own" The Guardian London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984...
The Battle for Shaggy Ridge: The extraordinary story of the Australian campaign against the Japanese in New Guinea's Finisterre mountains in 1943-44
'You climb and climb . . . This is the field of battle . . . tonight some of us will be dead . . . You'll never forget Shaggy...
D-Day New Guinea: The extraordinary story of the battle for Lae and the greatest combined airborne and amphibious operation of the Pacific War
'Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea' - Japanese military saying The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the...
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three weeks of hell defending the gateway to the Owen Stanleys
'The Japanese attacked us, they mortared us, they shelled us...they did everything.' On 21 July 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua, it would...
Hell's Battlefield: To Kokoda and beyond
Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in New Guinea during World War II, from invasion in 1942 to the...
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads,Fall of Civilizationsbrilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse....
Sevens Heaven: The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji's Olympic Dream: WINNER OF
WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'Brutally honest . . . A moving, candid tale of a coach taking the plunge with a rugby ball as his...