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By Alice Pung, Ali Lemerm, Catherine Rey, Diane Armstrong, Danny Katz, Arnold Zable, Chris Flynn, Meg Mundell, Mark Dapin, Kent MacCarter, Maria Tumarkin, Paola Totaro, Alison Lemer, Amy Espeseth. 2013
Joyful Strains collects twenty-seven memoirs from writers describing their expatriation to Australia. These are stories about what they found, who…
they became and what they now think of Australia - stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians. Contributors include: Alice Pung, Danny Katz, Mark Dapin and Diane Armstrong, with an introduction from Arnold Zable.By Brenda Walker. 2002
By Michael McGirr. 2007
Bypass: the story of a road, a quirky biography of Australia's main street, the Hume Highway. The heart of Bypass…
is a bike ride that Michael, not the fittest man on the road, made from Sydney to Melbourne with the ever-patient Jenny, now his wife and more patient than ever. By the end of the book, they were expecting their first child.By Andrew Hassam. 1995
Between 1788 and 1880 some 1.3 million free emigrants arrived in Australia from the British Isles. For these people, the…
journey to this new promised land was fraught with difficulty and danger. It was a huge transition, both geographically and culturally. Andrew Hassam analyses the journals and diaries that offer snapshots and experiences of many ordinary men and women who embarked on the adventure.By Stephen A Kaufman. 1974
The Aramaic Language is unique among the Semitic languages in that its development as a living language is well documented…
for a period of almost three thousand years, from the earliest inscriptions in the first centuries of the first millennium B. C. until the present day.By Harvestime Books. 2002
By Ivor Indyk. 1993
David Malouf is one of Australia's most popular novelists, and also one of its most elusive. Drawing on the whole…
range of his work - fiction, poetry, essays, his plays and his libretti - Ivor Indyk presents Malouf as both a primitive and a romantic, a writer who draws deeply on the rhythms of nature in his expression of dark desires which go largely unrecognised in the social domain.By Maggie MacKellar. 2004
When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd…
landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past. In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience. Core of My Heart, My Country weaves together experience and insight from women who lived and wrote in different landscapes, in different climates and in different eras. It is a provocative and remarkable encounter with buried stories and persistent myths.By Mary Moody. 2001
Living the good life in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales with her husband, four grown-up children and four…
(and counting) grandchildren, Mary Moody's life was full. At fifty, she had built a satisfying career as a writer and television presenter which allowed her time to look after her family, house and garden. The only thing missing was time for herself, a chance to reflect on life and its meaning. Like many women of her generation, caught up with the commitments of work and family, Mary had never had a moment alone - so she decided to say au revoir. She ran away to live on her own for six glorious months in the rural paradise of southwest France.By Doris Pilkington. 2002
Doris Pilkington Garimara was born on traditional birthing ground under the Wintamarra tree. This is her life story, which follows…
on from the story of her mother Molly, told in Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. Taken from her family by authorities as a three-year -old, Doris tells her story as an institutional orphan through to her training as a nurses' aide, and finally, her decision as an adult to trace her mother and father.By Robert Dessaix. 2009
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, France, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French…
writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to this enigmatic figure.On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, Robert takes us to the places where the Nobel Prize-winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion. Features meditations and conversations with fellow-travellers on such diverse subjects as why we travel, growing old, illicit passions, and the essence of Protestantism.By Tim F Flannery. 2011
Twenty-five years ago, a young curator of mammals from the Australian Museum in Sydney set out to research the fauna…
of the Pacific Islands. Starting with a survey of one of the most inaccessible islands in Melanesia - Woodlark, in the Trobriands Group - that young scientist found himself ghost-whispering, snake wrestling, Quadoi hunting and plunged waist-deep into a sludge of maggot-infested faeces in search of a small bat that turned out not to be earth-shatteringly interesting. With accounts of discovering, naming and sometimes eating new mammal species; being thwarted or aided by local customs; and historic scientific expeditions, Tim Flannery takes us on an enthralling journey through some of the most diverse and spectacular environments on earth.By Dorothy Butler. 1991
The author has climbed, walked and cycled all over the world and has many "firsts" to her name, especially in…
Australia and New Zealand where she has done much of her mountaineering over the past 70 years. Her story is filled with thrills, romance and challenges as she recalls her childhood, career, marriage and adventures.By James Woodford. 2003
At 5400 kilometres, the Dog Fence is one of the longest man-made structures on Earth. It slices across Australia’s desert…
heart, dividing the continent to keep dingoes away from livestock. James Woodford embarks on a journey to follow its length, travelling some of the loneliest and harshest country in the world. He begins on a clifftop overlooking the Great Australian Bight and ends in the foothills of Queensland’s Bunya Mountains. He meets many of the remarkable people who maintain this amazing barrier as he passes through rocket ranges, nuclear test areas, sacred sites and places where nineteenth-century explorers perished. The Dog Fence is an account of a most unusual journey over sand, gibber plains and salt lakes. It is about the hazards of travel, the lessons of history and the passion and resilience of the men and women on the land.By Peter Taylor. 1998
Describes the life and work of the European pioneers who, with no local advice and usually no experience of agriculture,…
started Australia's pastoral industry - an industry that was to become the economic base of Australian life.By Peter Cole-Adams. 1989
The author set off on a 7-month, 38,500-kilometre journey in search of the 'other' Australia, the Australia of country towns…
and fishing ports, of isolated rural communities and remote mining settlements.By Inga Clendinnen. 2006
In this selection of essays, Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to…
what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death. And she writes movingly about other people who have changed her own life. Many of the themes which are central to Clendinnen's work are teased out in Agamemnon's Kiss: the question of black/white relations in Australia, the way we think about the Holocaust and its perpetrators, and the investigative power of history.By Alan Marshall, Gwen Hardisty. 1983
Alan Marshall writing on the poor, the dispossessed, and those who suffered the Great Depression of the 1930's. We meet…
Rattly Bob, the boxer who was paid to lose, a pieman, a street photographer, prostitutes, the 'seagulls', who lived on the food thrown out from ships and the Collingwood poor who heated themselves on "Collingwood Coke" and took their food from rubbish bins. There are Aborigines in the far North and in the city, and the men of the cattle stations; further afield, a Chinese peasant girl, Mongolian tribesmen and the old men of Abkhazia. Marshall also writes of himself, of delerium in hospital, and of his old friends - his crutches.By Sally Lewis. 2004
This year, The Age Good Food Guide celebrates a quarter of a century of great eating in Victoria and in…
many ways, the three major awards in 2005 embody the past, present and future of dining in this state.Stories, journalism and criticism by: Kate Grenville, Barbara Hanrahan, Beverley Farmer, Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley, Jessica Anderson, Olga Masters and…
Helen Garner - eight voices representing a decade in Australian literature dominated by women.