Catálogo de libros: Historia de Australasia y el Pacífico

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  • See No Evil
    Peter MacFie
    A child’s eye account of life on The Glebe, Hobart, post-World War Two. My parents were just getting re-acquainted after war-time separation, and my mother had just lost her own mother. She had moved away from her close-knit relatives while her own family kept growing. For a small boy, running free on The Domain was a relief from his, at times, difficult and violent father who ...
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    18,86 €

  • Foundations
    Karin Speedy
    Every day we face decisions, crossroads that can take us on wildly different rides. Our lives are never certain, no matter how well we plan. Although, fascinatingly, unknowingly, sometimes spookily, we can find ourselves on paths once trodden by our forebears...In Foundations, Karin Speedy takes us on a whirlwind journey through time and space as she navigates intersecting pers...
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    26,33 €

  • Camden History - Volume 3
    Ian Willis
    Camden History is the Journal of the Camden Historical Society. It is published twice yearly and contains a wide range of articles and other local history items about the Camden District.This book is a reproduction of all issues in Volume 3. It spans the period from March 2011 to September 2015. ...
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    40,71 €

  • Camden History - Volume 4
    Ian Willis
    Camden History is the Journal of the Camden Historical Society. It is published twice yearly and contains a wide range of articles and other local history items about the Camden District.This book is a reproduction of all issues in Volume 4. It spans the period from March 2016 to September 2020. ...
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    47,59 €

  • A Bunch of Convicts and A Couple of Aboriginals
    Neville Turbit
    A Bunch of Convicts and a Couple of Aboriginals.The family history of Neville and Judith Turbit uncovers the secrets about our direct ancestors. It goes back to the first arrivals on the shores of Australia.Researching the book uncovered 18 who were convicts. They included such obscure people as a Prussian soldier in the British army who deserted in the Napoleonic wars. A previ...
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    73,77 €

  • The Alert, Grey Twinkling Eyes of C. J. DeGaris
    David Nichols
    Entrepreneur, aviator, publisher, publicist, propagandist, playwright, songwriter, motorist, land developer, dreamer: for five brief years it seemed like there was nothing Clement John DeGaris couldn’t do. He’d inveigle your life savings out of you with a promise of doubling them in a year and then, when he lost them, he’d promise to reimburse you and you’d lend him some more t...
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    31,94 €

  • Waiheke Pioneers
    Dixie Day
    The classic story of Waiheke’s settler families Now with a section on the island’s indigenous history by historian, Paul Monin  Beautifully written, filled with entertaining anecdotes, Waiheke Pioneers is a gem of historical storytelling  It all started with listening to some of the stories told around our kitchen table.  I found them so interesting that I started to jot them d...
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    26,28 €

  • The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
    Henry Fielding
    While the author was hoisted on board the Queen of Portugal bound for Lisbon in June 1754, he had a small desire to survive the milder Portuguese winter.Fielding was dying from different kinds of disorders, and the weight of his sickness sets up the adventurous humour and tragedy of the journal. In this essay, Fielding examines his body’s decay and the corruption of English soc...
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    18,02 €

  • The Eventful History Of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty
    Sir John Barrow
    The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences (1831) by Sir John Barrow is viewed as the classic example of the mutiny on the Bounty. It incorporates a description of the island of Tahiti, and a story of events from the embarkation of the Bounty in 1787 through to the trail of a portion of the mutineers in 1792 and the end...
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    25,62 €

  • Playing in the Bush
    For over 100 years, people have been drawn to national parks by the promise of getting ’back to nature’. Australia has some of the oldest national parks in the world (the first park was created in 1879 just south of Sydney) and has more than any other country. They were distinctive for their emphasis on recreational use more than the protection of natural wonder. This focus on ...
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    27,76 €

  • Made in Chinatown
    Peter Charles Gibson
    Made in Chinatown delves into a little-known aspect of Australia’s past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. These businesses thrived in the post-goldrush era, becoming an important economic activity for Chinese immigrants and their descendants and a vital part of Australia’s furniture industry. Yet, owing to an exclusionary vision for Australia as a bastion of ’white’...
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    21,80 €

  • Saturday Movies, Hele’uhila Tokonaki
    Sione Tapani Mangisi
    Saturday Movies, Hele’uhila Tokonaki is written in Tongan and English. It is B1+ in the CEFR framework and is designed to support the learning of the Tongan language. In the second half of the twentieth century movies came to Tonga in a major way. Local entrepreneurs would arrange for the hire of a suitable building in each village and travel around the districts bringing the m...
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    7,82 €

  • Pacific Forest
    Judith A. Bennett
    Pacific Forest explores the use of the forests of the Solomon Islands from the prehistoric period up to the end of 1997, when much of the indigenous commercial forest had been logged. It is the first study of the history of the forest in any Pacific Island; the first analysis of the indigenous and British colonial perceptions of the Melanesian forest; and the first critical ana...
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    49,75 €

  • The Darklands
    Brandon Oswald / Nancy Laning
    This unique and fascinating book reveals the Melanesia you never knew. When the French writer and poet Andre Breton observed odd sculptures for the first time from Melanesia, he wrote, 'You frighten. You amaze.' The five Melanesian islands of Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu were places that were not supposed to be discovered. Explorers feared...
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    13,20 €

  • A Pre-COVID Social Experiment
    Monica Bennett-Ryan
    A POWERFUL TRUE STORY OF GOVERNMENT CORRUPTIONDuring the global financial crisis of 2009, three ordinary Australian’s uncovered the greatest intelligence scandal in Australia’s history. Tens of thousands of security clearances from ’classified’ to ’top-secret’ were deliberately altered on the orders of government officials for the sake of money. Those officials didn’t care that...
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    42,95 €

  • A Pre-COVID Social Experiment
    Monica Bennett-Ryan
    A POWERFUL TRUE STORY OF GOVERNMENT CORRUPTIONDuring the global financial crisis of 2009, three ordinary Australian’s uncovered the greatest intelligence scandal in Australia’s history. Tens of thousands of security clearances from ’classified’ to ’top-secret’ were deliberately altered on the orders of government officials for the sake of money. Those officials didn’t care that...
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    27,31 €

  • Hannah & Friends
    Brian Hansford
    Hannah was an incredible woman who was before her time.As an innkeeper in the rough-and-ready settlement of South Brisbane during the 1840s-50s, Hannah out-lived two husbands and suffered the grief of losing children in a time when reaching the age of 37 was considered an achievement. She had a high profile in the local Brisbane and Ipswich area and would have been considered a...
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    11,65 €

  • Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes
    W. D. Westervelt
    Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (1916) explores Hawaiian folktales and myths collected by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultures, Westervelt provides an invaluable resource for understanding the historical and geographical scope of Hawaiian culture. Beginning with the origin story of Pele, the goddess of volcanoes, W...
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    16,99 €

  • Pele and Hiiaka
    Nathaniel B. Emerson / Nathaniel BEmerson
    A colorful illustration of Hawaii’s most cherished origin story, the myth of Pele and Hiiaka.Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii (1915) is a collection of folktales by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Drawing from written histories, personal experience, and extensive interviews, Emerson provides a lyrical account of the myth surrounding these goddess sisters. Pele, the goddess of volcanoe...
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    20,79 €

  • Hawaiian Antiquities
    David Malo
    Hawaiian Antiquities (1898) is an ethnography by David Malo. Originally published in 1838, Hawaiian Antiquities, or Moolelo Hawaii, was updated through the end of Malo’s life and later translated into English by Nathaniel Bright Emerson, a leading scholar of Hawaiian mythology. As the culmination of Malo’s research on Hawaiian history, overseen by missionary Sheldon Dibble, Haw...
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    22,90 €

  • Legends of Maui
    W. D. Westervelt
    Legends of Maui (1910) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths anthologized by W. D. Westervelt. Paying homage to the importance of Maui across Polynesian cultures, Westervelt introduces his groundbreaking collection of legends on Hawaii’s founding deity.Westervelt’s collection connects the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultures, providing...
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    15,37 €

  • Those That Survive
    Graeme Broxam / Nicole Mays
    Tasmanians hold a special empathy with the sea and, in particular, their vintage and veteran boats. This book profiles over 300 vintage or veteran commercial and government vessels built prior to 1970 that are of significance to Australia’s small island state across a wide range of types, sizes and locations and in various stages of condition. Categories include sea-going sail,...
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    76,17 €

  • Hunga Tonga - The Volcano!
    Larry W Jones
    When the Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on January 15,2022, destruction, death and personal stories of survival filled the news worldwide. Sonic waves from the blast were recorded around the globe. Tonga is known as 'The Friendly Islands' and will remain so, regardless of Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha’apai. This book 'Hunga Tonga - The Volcano!' is filled with dramatic ph...
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    39,32 €

  • ELIZABETH RYMES - A Remarkable Life
    Ian J White
    The life and times of Elizabeth Rymes, convicted in the Old Bailey in 1789 at the age of 15, sentenced to transportation to NSW Australia for a period of seven years, and transported on the Second Fleet to New South Wales, Australia, as a convict. In NSW she met and married Matthew James Everingham, a young convict who had arrived on the First Fleet. An inspiring story of a you...
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    14,32 €

  • The Lantern Room
    Chloe Honum
    'In The Lantern Room, her exquisite new collection, Chloe Honum moves, as her poems do, with range, precision, and astonishing beauty. Honum’s speaker travels across Arkansas motel to motel, missing a beloved, and in the book’s crown jewel, ’The Common Room,’ chronicles an out-patient hospitalization in a psychiatric ward. The collection closes with sublime meditations on the s...
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    16,53 €

  • A Portrait in his Actions. Thomas Moore of Liverpool (1762-1840)
    Peter G Bolt
    The first volume of the biography of Mr Thomas Moore, Esq. (1762–1840), from his birth to his appointment as resident magistrate of George's River (Liverpool), NSW. After growing up in Lesbury, Northumberland, Thomas Moore became the ship's carpenter on the Britannia (Master: William Raven). When he was left in Dusky Sound with a sealing party, he constructed a vessel (...
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    73,76 €

  • Born in 1942? What else happened?
    Ron Williams
    ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. I could have found out about the times they lived in. But I ...
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    16,05 €

  • Chang Shih Yen’s Pandemic Diary
    Shih Yen Chang
    Chang Shih Yen is a writer who lives in New Zealand. When the global pandemic hit, and countries went into lockdown, Shih Yen found herself alone at home and without internet. During lockdown, she took ’stay at home’ orders seriously and did not go outside. She did not open her front door for 24 days, and did not buy food for 33 days. During that time, she wrote a lot in her di...
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    15,33 €

  • The Promise of the City
    David Wilmoth
    ... We had become radicalised during the rise of urban policy in Labor’s opposition program, and now we were working for them in government ...As a technocrat in the Whitlam government, David Wilmoth was never an average urban planner. Australia was in desperate need of structural reform to lift opportunities for the disadvantaged. In David’s view, urban strategy had to encompa...
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    39,24 €

  • 1823 - Before and After (2021 Edition)
    E. F. Lawrence / EFLawrence
    This story of William Effingham Lawrence, Tasmanian pioneer, and his family, is the completion of a sixty-five year life journey. The journey began with my father in the 1950s regaling me with stories of his great-grandfather closing his business in London, England, loading his family and goods onto his 71 ton cutter and embarking on a nine month voyage to Van Diemen’s Land, ar...
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    56,31 €


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