Clearings: Six Colonial Gardeners and Their Landscapes

The stories of six colonial Australian gardeners and their transformation of the Australian landscape are told in this revealing look at 19th-century botany, horticulture, and plant collecting. Original writings, illustrations, and photographs from this time period help to reveal the progress of the gardeners as they made clearings on land that they did not understand people still inhabited.

Fox, Paul

Arts & Photography

Miegunyah Press

All Australian children's books published from 1989 to 2000 are listed in this essential reference for those who appreciate the richness of Australian writing for children. Following the same format as volumes 1 and 2 in this series chronicling books published as early as 1774, entries include publishing details, the number of illustrations, and the awards received for each book. This third volume follows the continuing careers of authors such as Mem Fox, Bob Graham, Robin Klein, and Paul Jennings, and traces changes in the popularity of Australian themes and settings to identify publishing trends. Varied cultural aspects of modern-day life are shown, from globalization, commercialism, and the rise of the middle class in Asia to desktop publishing, outcome-based school curricula, and the modern obsession with celebrities—all of which are reflected in the type and quantity of books produced by Australian writers and publishers. The wealth of included material will extend researchers' understanding of the range of Australian children's books.

Australian Children's Books Volume 3: 1980-2000: Volume 3, 1989–2000 (Australian Children's Books series)

Literature & Fiction

White, Kerry

History & Criticism

Artist Hilda Rix Nicholas' Moroccan pictures are justly acclaimed as her finest, but they are not the only legacy of the time she spent in Tangiers in 1912 and 1914. Together with her sister Elsie, she sent numerous postcards and lengthy letters to friends and family. Published for the first time, their letters from Tangiers present a rich evocation of the real experience of travel in North Africa before World War I, and provide fascinating insight into adventurous young women artists and their growing understanding of a place and its culture. Adomed with sketches and drawings, they give vivid descriptions of the people, places, architecture and the costumes of the local inhabitants.

Hilda Rix Nicholas and Elsie Rix's Moroccan Idyll: Art and Orientalism

Jeanette Hoorn

Diversity and Discovery

Gustav Nossal

Medical Books

<p>Imagine an Australia before the tour buses and well-trodden bushwalks - a wild and often daunting country that did not easily yield the secrets of its natural beauty. Into this landscape, early Europeans ventured. This illustrated work aims to serve as a celebration of travel in its many rambling, striving and, inspiring guises.</p>

Pursuit Of Wonder

Travel

Horne, Julia

Australia & South Pacific

A powerful collection of first person narratives, these edited transcripts tell the stories of women who had illegal abortions in Australia from 1930 to 1980. Insightful and compelling, it reveals what women’s lives were like during these times, exploring work life, their relationships with men, treatment by the medical community, and prevailing social attitudes of the day.

Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wainer, Jo

Women's Health

Unaipon's stories were published in 1930 as Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, but the author was wrongfully and unjustly given as W Ramsay Smith. Putting together stories collected and transcribed by Unaipon, the authors aim to restore the text to its original form.

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines

History

Unaipon, David

Americas

Providing insight into the prominent businessman who set up the largest philanthropic trust in Australia, this biography explores both the personal and business successes and failures of Ian Potter and examines the contrast between the measured control of his public and private lives. Using his influence with state and federal governments to reform tax laws to encourage private philanthropy, the Ian Potter Foundation has given millions of dollars to support worthwhile projects in the fields of education, the arts, the environment, sciences, medicine, and health.

Ian Potter: Financier, Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts

Biographies & Memoirs

Yule, Peter

Leaders & Notable People

<p>On the forefront of Australian public life for more than 50 years, this personal memoir examines the experiences of scholar and constitutional lawyer Zelman Cowen. This autobiography addresses how he revolutionized legal education in Australia and became one of the nation's best known intellectuals, focusing on privacy, civil liberties, capital punishment, and organ transplants.</p>

The Memoirs Of Zelman Cowen: The Memoirs of Zelman Cowen

Zelman, Cowen

Historical

B.A. Santamaria was one of the most controversial Australians of our time. His sphere of influence ranged across the nation's political and social landscape. Santamaria, an ardent anti-Communist and devout Catholic, was fiercely intelligent and a natural leader, polarizing the community into loyal followers and committed opponents. This collection of letters spanning sixty years shows facets of Santamaria's personality and activities that have not previously been disclosed. The letters are both personal and professional and in them he speaks frankly on matters of the state, the Church and family and he is revealed as a person more subtle in his views than his public persona would suggest. His correspondents ranged from prominent politicians, including Malcolm Fraser, Bill Hayden and Clyde Cameron, religious leaders, including Archbishops Mannix and Pell, to influential media and social commentators such as Kerry Packer and Phillip Adams. In the 1940's Santamaria created the Movement in Australia, an anti-Communist organization, and these letters reveal that he also operated the Movement for decades throughout Asia. He was a key figure in the tumultuous split in the 1950s of the Australian Labour Party and subsequently had much influence as a public commentator on his television program Point of View and his weekly column in the Australian. Santamaria had a strong social conscience and spent much of his time helping the underprivileged, and although he began as an advocate and champion of the Catholic Church, he spent much of his last decades opposing some of its activities. By the 1990's B.A. Santamaria was the only person still active in politics who had been involved in public life before World War II and in the immediate postwar years. The letters offer a rare glimpse into a mind that was preoccupied for more than six decades with world events and ideological controversies.

Your Most Obedient Servant: Selected Letters: 1938–1996

(Ed.), Patrick Morgan

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