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The coast and its people help define our identity. Most Australians live in suburbia, but our hearts are elsewhere.From the winner of the ACT Book of the year Award for his first book, The River, comes this celebration of the Australian seascape, from its natural grandeur to the quirky individualism of those who live beside it. It is also the heartfelt and pertinent story of the issues facing our coast today and the resilience of communities at a turning point.

The updated edition of a bestselling classic, with a new introduction from award-winning author Chris Hammer. Australia's major river system is collapsing. Parts of it are dying; parts of it are already dead. Australia's most significant river no longer reaches the sea. I look out into the dim autumn light and wonder once again how it has come to this . . . Join award-winning author Chris Hammer on a journey through Australia's largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin.

‘I stood there holding the hundred-year-old letter with a feeling that was familiar from other archives, other bulging files of dog-eared paper. It was a blood-running-fast, itchy-palm, eyes-wide-open feeling of stumbling on something. A story …’ Rummaging around in the Archives one afternoon, Kate Grenville comes across an innocuous-looking file full of letters about a schoolteacher in country New South Wales. Intrigued, she keeps reading – and discovers a tale far more curious and complex than first appears. Was Joseph Connor savagely beating the students in his care?

在太平洋深处最极致的孤绝之地，数百尊巨型摩艾石像无声矗立，还原了一段波利尼西亚先民在极限资源下重塑信仰与文明的震撼人类学历史。当孤岛成为远航者的唯一落脚点，一个缺乏金属工具和车轮的远古社会，凭借着惊...

Mergulhe na história e na arqueologia para entender como uma sociedade polinésia isolada ergueu monumentos colossais. Transforme seu trajeto diário em uma jornada imersiva pelo Pacífico, acompanhando navegadores audaciosos que dominaram um ambiente extremo e remoto. A narrativa recria a vida...

استكشف التاريخ البشري الحقيقي خلف تماثيل المواي الغامضة، وكيف تمكن مجتمع معزول من بناء حضارة مذهلة بموارد محدودة. يغوص هذا السرد التاريخي العميق في بيئة المحيط...

Svela l'enigma archeologico dei maestosi moai ed esplora i segreti di una delle civiltà antiche più isolate al mondo. Un viaggio sonoro immersivo, perfetto per arricchire i tuoi spostamenti quotidiani o per rilassarti esplorando la complessa storia polinesiana. Oltre il mito, questa rigorosa...

El choque entre la expansión colonial y una cultura indígena milenaria forjó una realidad histórica fascinante. Ideal para transformar tu trayecto diario en un momento de aprendizaje reflexivo, este vibrante relato desentraña el nacimiento de una sociedad llena de contrastes. Sumérgete en...

Navega el épico choque cultural entre exploradores maoríes y potencias europeas en un relato histórico cautivador. Ideal para enriquecer tu mente durante los trayectos diarios, esta inmersiva narración revela cómo un territorio remoto forjó su identidad colectiva a través de la...

絶海の孤島に残された巨大なモアイ像は、単なる神秘的な遺物ではなく、環境変動や社会の激動という過酷な試練を生き抜いた人々の壮大な歴史ドラマそのものです。知的な刺激を求める通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックス...

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem...

A remarkable new account of Australia's colonial beginnings This fascinating book sets aside the cliches of Australian history and asks us to look again. What really happened when exiled criminals made a home in an occupied and defended country? How were they changed by this new world? What can...

Australia is often seen as a young nation, defined by British colonization and modern settlement—but its story stretches far beyond European arrival. Home to one of the world's oldest continuous human cultures, Australia's Indigenous peoples developed sophisticated societies, laws, and land management practices over thousands of years, long before the First Fleet arrived in 1788.

Australian History For Dummies is your rough-and-ready tour guide through Australia's whirlwind past. We'll introduce you to the people and events that have shaped this "Land Down Under" (and why it's called that). You'll see how Indigenous Australians lived in Australia for over 65,000 years. You'll be there as British colonists explore Australia's harsh terrain. You'll delve into the recent past, giving you insight into modern-day Australia and what's next. This new edition fills in the last ten years of history and covers issues faced in the twenty-first century.

Shadows in Paradise: The Dark History of the CNMI Guest Worker Program explores one of the most overlooked chapters of modern American history. For decades, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a U.S. territory in the Western Pacific, operated a labor system that brought tens of thousands of foreign workers from countries such as the Philippines, China, Bangladesh, and others to build its economy.

A wildly funny and meticulously researched re-examination of the life of explorer Matthew Flinders, as Shaun Micallef charts the chaos, comedy and contradictions behind the founding of Australia. Who was Matthew Flinders? A pioneer who gave Australia its name but chose to name nothing after...

Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair...

King David Kalākaua introduces us to the people upon whom the legend of the Pele family is based. They departed Samoa as war refugees in the 12th century, settling in the foothills of Mauna Loa. As earthquakes and eruptions occurred during their interactions with the Hawaiians, this family of kahuna were accorded what the king described as “unique sanctity and power”. Pele was as mighty as she was beautiful. The tales of the volcano goddess earned the attention of Kamapuaa, the outcast son of the chief of Oahu who terrorized the island with his band of renegades.

Spanning several centuries of history in the Pacific, The Legends and Myths of Hawaiʻi: Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People is a collection of Hawaiian stories that were preserved through the ages by oral tradition and documented for posterity by King David Kalākaua in 1887. This massive tome recalls the tales of chiefs and kings, explorers and pirates, prophets, sorceresses, and renegades. This is the first in a series of 22 parts.

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the 18th century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors.