Australasian History

Born into lowly circumstances in London's East End in 1823 William Wilkinson Wardell became one of Australia's greatest architects whose crowning works are his two cathedrals, St Mary's in Sydney...

Wharves to the World: The Development of Melbourne's World Trade Centre is a photographic chronicle of the history of the World Trade Centre and its surrounds. The book traces the...

Colonial architect John James Clark was fourteen when he began practising as an architect. By the age of nineteen he had designed the Melbourne Treasury, Australia's finest Renaissance Revival building,...

Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways in which we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterize Australian landscapes and how have they influenced...

When Europeans first reached Australian shores, an expedient and long-held belief developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or towns. Instead it was believed that they occupied temporary...

From Australia's greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of this classic study of an imagined southern world. Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia's...

The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. Among the descendants of landscape painter Emma Minnie Beckett and her husband Arthur Merric Boyd are talented painters, potters, sculptors, architects,...

As global focus turns towards the growing influence and power of the Far East, the architects of Australia are perfectly placed to respond with their own forward-looking visions. This book...

The book titled Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and by the author Richard Apperly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The late Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) was a senior member of the Utopia Community north-east of Alice Springs and is widely regarded as one of the most notable Aboriginal artists of...

Children and young people, many from conflict-affected countries, who arrive in Australia on orphan relative visas are highly vulnerable. In this report professionals with experience of working in this field...

This biography of Marcus Clarke was written a century ago by Cyril Hopkins, brother of Gerard Manley Hopkins and a close friend of Clarke and is published now for the...

How did the kangaroo transform from a bizarre curiosity to an internationally recognised symbol of Australia? How did Vegemite, a waste product of beer, come to be the most popular...

This is the 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land. Aboriginal rock art, as practised in Arnhem Land, is the world's longest continuing art tradition. It...

A selection of the best essays on Australian and New Zealand architectural history. From an initial meeting of a small group of architects in 1984, the Society of Architectural Historians,...

The book titled Railtrails of Victoria: Twenty-Five Walking, Cycling and Horse Riding by the author Fiona Colquhoun. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This collection of essays is the first systematic attempt to explain the social, administrative, technical and cultural history of 'European' housing in Australia. Written by a collaborative team of scholars...

This book offers a new perspective on the pioneer settlement experience of colonial Victoria by examining the ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs...

Australia has an enormously rich heritage of gardens and gardening and there has never before been a reference work of this scale with this diversity covering this wide-ranging subject. Ten...

'Please. I'm in hell!' The truth of that was in his face. The rims of his eyes were red-raw, his hair was matted, he hadn't shaved since knocking at her...

Tarnanthi accompanies the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and a series of exhibitions held at the Art Gallery of South Australia and partner organisations across...

The book titled Border: What They Said about Him by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It's not news that Australians don't really trust their politicians and the relationship between politicians and the people who elect them is certainly not warm and cuddly. But as this...

Indigenous Australians have given us some of our greatest football champions. With names like Farmer, Winmar, Long, Rioli and Goodes, the stories of Indigenous footballers are some of the most...

Packed with over 10,000 questions, more than any other quiz book ever produced in Australia, 'The Great Aussie Sports Quiz Book' is an all-Australian, comprehensive general sports quiz book. It...

Australia's leisure culture is legendary, and as millions of British viewers of Neighbours, fans of Yothu Yindi or drinkers of Castlemaine XXXX would attest, Australian popular culture is popular outside...

Presenting information and findings about the history of the peopling of Australia, this revised edition looks at the way people first came to Australia, where they lived, and how they...

The book titled Australia's First Government House by the author Helen Proudfoot. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first section of this illustrated pocket history traces Australia's development from aboriginal arrival up to 50,000 years ago to the present day. A second section looks at how each...

The Greatest Team of All is your definitive, blow-by-blow account of the Geelong Football Club team's rise to win the AFL 2022 Premiership. Revealing, insightful and action-packed, this book will...

Shane Warne, who died in 2022, is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all time - and the greatest spin bowler ever. Warne in Wisden records the...

From Test matches to social knocks - from Lord's to the concrete driveway and the triumphs of the Don. From drama to biography, from eulogy to satire and from anecdote...

The author's captivating account of how she and husband Graeme Blundell dropped out with style. Exchanging the soy milk lattes and eternal traffic snarls of the city for the delights...

The global success story of central Melbourne's transformation since the 1980s The transformation of central Melbourne since the since the 1980s is a global success story-or rather, many success stories....

Akio Makigawa is a Japanese/Australian sculptor whose work can be contextualized within a Western art tradition while remaining within the realm of a Japanese aesthetic sensibility. He was born in...

For forty years, botanical artist Philippa Nikulinsky has been sharing her love of wild places through her painting. Now in her first collaboration on a book with her husband Alex...

Rocks to Riches is the story of Australia's national geological survey, which started life as the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, and is now known as the Australian...

The city of Geelong and football have been entwined since the second half of the 19th century - from the moment the Geelong Advertiser carried a notice announcing a meeting...

An illustrated catalog of buildings that have won national architecture awards from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

From the authors of Australias favourite bush camping and 4WD guides comes a striking review of the High Country's most aesthetic and historic huts. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful full-colour photographs,...

Explains how Canberra was the natural outcome of a landscape cult thriving in colonial Australia. It also focuses on people who followed Griffin and stamped Canberra with its unique landscape...

Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now reveals the legacies of homophobia, the personal struggles and triumphs involved in coming out, and the many different ways of being gay or lesbian...

Tracing cinematic depictions of life in Melbourne from the Victorian era to the present day, World Film Locations: Melbourne serves as an illuminating and visually rich guide to films set...

This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each other, the firearm is an...