Books from National Library of Australia
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Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita To Australia
By Peter Barber, Katherine Barnes, Dr Nigel ErskineFry, Howard T., Alexander Dalrymple and the Expansion of British Trade. London: Frank Cass, 1970. Suárez, Thomas, Early Mapping of South-East Asia. Hong Kong: Periplus, 1999. 'LITTLE NOW REMAINS TO BE DONE' Beaglehole, J.C. (ed.) ...
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Victory on Gallipoli and Other What-ifs of Australian History
By Peter StanleyThese are the nation's sliding door moments, our alternative history. The Cold War had the world teetering on the edge of mutually assured destruction. What if it had heated up?
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Lucy's Dawn
By Juliet BlairToday has been the most important day of my life. I still don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This is how it all began .
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John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Mammals of Australia
By Dr. Fred Ford... 99, 102, 102–104, 103 Barrett, Charles, 115 Barrow Island (WA), 169 Bass Strait islands (Tas.), 79–80,252 Bathurst (NSW), 92 bats, 16, 17, 17, 19, 202,203. see also flying-foxes Baudin, Nicolas Thomas, 172 Beagle voyage, 1, 169, ...
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Australia's First Naturalists: Indigenous Peoples' Contribution to early Zoology
By Lynette Russell, Penny OlsenJones used Aboriginal guides and sometime collectors on his journeys and made 'collections of natural curiosities such as Birds &c' as far afield as the headwaters of the Warragamba and Nepean rivers and Newcastle.34 The remote ...
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Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story
By Deborah Burrowsand Mint, Macquarie Street, Sydney, c.1870, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, SPF/321; 39 background notice of appointment, New South Wales Government Gazette, 13 September 1881, nla.news-page12901090; 40 Hubert Newman ...
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The Rescue Ark
By Susan Hall" Alison Lester This book has been road tested with preschool children in two schools, who were very excited by the introduction of animals that were not so familiar to them (e.g. potoroos) and by the idea of children cleaning up the earth ...
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What Do We Want?: The Story of Protest in Australia
By Clive HamiltonPAGE 152 S11 police violence Bernard Barrett, 'A Report on Police Batons and the News Media at the World Economic Forum, Melbourne, September 2000', australianpolitics. com/2000/11/15/beating-up-bernard-barrett-report. html.
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Living with the Locals: Early Europeans' Experience of Indigenous Life
By John Maynard, Victoria Katharine HaskinsTurner, George, 'Barbara Thompson's Captivity amongst the Blacks', Cummins & Campbell's Magazine, March 1933, p. 31. Warren, Raymond J., Wildflower: The Barbara Crawford Thompson Story. Brisbane: R.J. Warren, 2007.
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Power of the Pedal: The Story of Australian Cycling
By Rupert GuinnessIn this book, cycling journalist Rupert Guinness reveals 200 years of the bike in Australian everyday life and the world of competition.
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Australian National Bibliography
By Richard A. BurridgeAustralian National Bibliography
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Living the 1960s
By Noeline BrownNearly four million children were born in Australia between 1946 and 1961, my younger brother and my husband included. ... who dressed like they were on London's Carnaby Street, with sculptured Little Pattie, Australia's sweetheart, ...
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The Indian Ocean: A Select Bibliography of Resources for Study in the National Library of Australia
By National Library of AustraliaThe Indian Ocean: A Select Bibliography of Resources for Study in the National Library of Australia
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Australian National Bibliography
Australian National Bibliography
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Australian National Bibliography
Australian National Bibliography
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Australian National Bibliography
Australian National Bibliography
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Australian National Bibliography
Australian National Bibliography
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Looking for Rose Paterson: How Family Bush Life Nurtured Banjo the Poet
By Jennifer Gall1852, nla.catvn1061410; 101: Gold Escort Attacked by Bushrangers, 1870s, Rex Nan Kivell Collection, nla.cat-vn1406411; 102: A.B. Paterson with His Nurse, p. x in Singer of the Bush: A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson: Complete Works 1885–1900 ...
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A Kind of Victory: Captain Charles Cox and His Australian Cavalrymen
By Craig Wilcox7 Rosamond Campbell and Philippa Harvie (eds), Singer ofthe Bush:A.B. Paterson, Complete Works 1885–1900. Sydney: Lansdowne Press, 1983, pp. 685–686. 8 Cox, Newspaper Cuttings, 'A New South Wales Lancers Review', June 1903, ML MSS 7903, ...
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All Aboard! True Train Tales
By Pauline DeevesEach cart was pushed by four convicts. Whee! The first railway in Tasmania was built and operated by convicts. The railway was designed by Captain Booth, the commandant of Tasmania's Port Arthur settlement. FAST FACT A PEOPLE-POWERED ...