Describes many things that originally came from Australia, including inventions, sports and games, food, musical instruments, animals, and words.

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

'Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her

The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." --Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells t

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal