WHEN THE GREAT WAR STARTED, MOST AUSTRALIANS BELIEVED IN THE NOTIONS OF PATRIOTISM, COURAGE AND UNSWERVING LOYALTY TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE. BUT AS THE WAR DRAGGED ON, AS THE HORRORS INTENSIFIED AND THE CASUALTY LISTS GREW, PATRIOTISM GAVE WAY TO CYNICISM AND COURAGE TO DESPAIR. USING THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF ABOUT ONE THOUSAND FRONT LINE SOLDIERS IN THE FIRST AIF, BILL GAMMAGE SHOWS HOW AND WHY THESE CHANGES TOOK PLACE. THE BROKEN YEARS IS A VIVID, OFTER HORRIFYING AND MOVING PORTRAYAL OF SOLDIERS AT WAR - MEN LOCKED IN A TRAGEDY THAT ENGULFED AN AGE.

The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War

History

Bill, Gammage

Military

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Europe

Penguin Books Australia

The Sky Travellers is the story of an extraordinary journey of exploration - three thousand kilometres by foot, from March 1938 to June 1939, through the formidable mountains of the western highlands of Papua New Guinea. The Hagen-Sepik Patrol was Australia's last great exploring expedition, and it marked the end of 450 years of European land exploration worldwide. It mapped and described unknown country, made first contact with many Highlands peoples, established outposts including Mount Hagen and found a major goldfield.Highlanders remember wondering who these strange visitors were. Pale skin suggested that they were spirits - sky people. How should they be treated? Local people repeatedly asked New Guinea's perpetual question, 'Why have you come?Over 350 people were on the patrol. Most were carriers from Highlands areas already familiar to Europeans. About forty New Guinean police came from distant coastal places. Jim Taylor led the expedition, accompanied by two other Australians, John Black and Pat Walsh.Many of the people who made the journey, and many of the Highlanders who saw white men for the first time, lived long enough to tell their story directly.

The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938–1939 (Miegunyah Press S)

Australia & Oceania

Melbourne University Press

<p>What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians.\nFor millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions.\nBill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today.\nCountry: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.</p>

Country

Science & Math

Bruce Pascoe

Nature & Ecology

Thames & Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

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