My Own Life: An Autobiography

My own life: An autobiography

Hawke, Hazel

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"Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia."—BulletinHelen Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her nonfiction, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning twenty-five years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.

True stories: Selected non-fiction

Biographies & Memoirs

GARNER, HELEN

Community & Culture

Life and adventures, 1776-1801

History

Nicol, John

Australia & Oceania

Nice try

Shane Maloney

A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that convey the sense of wonder and discovery, along with the human dimensions of struggle and deprivation, which occurred in the exploration of the last continent to be fully mapped by Europeans. Beginning with the story of Dutch captain Willem Janz's 1606 expedition at Cape York -- the bloody outcome of which would sadly foreshadow future relations between colonists and Aboriginal peoples -- and running through Robyn Davidson's 1977 camelback ride through the desolate Outback deserts, The Explorers bristles with the enterprise that Flannery explains as "heroic, for nowhere else did explorers face such an obdurate country."

The Explorers

TIM FLANNERY

Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Matthew Flinders is the man who gave Australia its name. A Voyage to Terra Australis, first published in two volumes in 1814, is his masterwork describing his circumnavigation of the great island continent in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  This edited version includes the journey Flinders made with George Bass to prove that Tasmania is an island, his herculean voyage in the Investigator to map the Australian coastline and his account of the wreck of the Porpoise.  Flinders' detailed stories of his travels remain vivid two hundred years later. He writes about his meetings with Aborigines, his encounters with French explorers and Macassan fishing fleets and his adventures with the great Aboriginal leader Bongaree. The backdrop to this epic drama is the unforgettable wilderness of Australia.  Brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis documents the shaping of Australia.

Terra Australis: Matthew Flinders' great adventures in the circumnavigation of Australia

Matthew Flinders

Minitudesis an addictive reading experience. In his gossipy, astute and often comic diaries, written over almost a quarter of a century, Barry Oakley records the social, theatrical and literary life around him. And he movingly describes his intimate and domestic world, including a traumatic period of separation from his wife Carmel. These marvellously entertaining pages are peopled by everyone from Manning Clark to Peter Carey, from Max Gillies to Dorothy Hewett. They provide an unparalleled glimpse of Australian life during a period of extraordinary energy and change.

Minitudes: Diaries 1974-1997

Oakley, Barry

Susan Butler, editor of "The Macquarie Dictionary", describes the origins and usage of words ranging from "mulga" to "Anzac", from "sool" to "kangaroo".

The dinkum dictionary: The origins of Australian words

Reference

Butler, Susan

Words, Language & Grammar

The Philosopher's Dog

RAIMOND GAITA

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