Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the by Greg Bankoff

Over My Dead Body

Winner, 2008 IP selections most sensible Fiction AwardMarked by means of the occasions of the nice Flood of 1893 and the formation of the 1st miners’ unions, Over My lifeless physique is an Australian epic; a literary feat exemplifying a writer’s craftsmanship and commitment to bringing historical past alive. This booklet places Australia’s present resource-driven prosperity into context by way of exhibiting the everyday struggles of normal staff simply attempting to get by way of.

The Man Who Loved Crocodiles and Stories of Other Adventurous Australians

The lives of twelve amazing Australians supply a desirable glimpse of a 'vanished and vanishing land' - revealing a mosaic of Australia over the last century. 'To listen the tale of anyone who has lived lengthy and good is a privilege past fee. it's a unusual and lovely procedure to delve into one other person's existence; unusual simply because we often specialize in our personal lives, now not others, superb simply because to find one other is to discover a treasure.

Ghost Platoon (Hachette Military Collection Book 1)

'thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' - The solar HeraldAn eye-opening account of Australian wrestle heritage, untold . . . in the past. In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 males have been thrown jointly at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was once so slapdash a bunch it did not also have an officer or sergeant dependable.

Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922 (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)

Within the century among the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil struggle, greater than seven million Irish women and men left their place of birth to start new lives in another country. whereas the bulk settled within the usa, Irish emigrants dispersed around the globe, a lot of them discovering their method to one other “New World,” Australia.