Libros más populares en España●Australia y Oceanía

En esta obra ya clásica Carlos Prieto estudió las características de la epopeya que supuso la exploración del océano Pacífico a cargo de un puñado de hombres que aunaron el arrojo y la sed de aventuras con el pleno dominio de los conocimientos náuticos y cartográficos de la época. Desde el erróneo objetivo perseguido por Colón («la más fecunda confusión que registra la Historia») al descubrir América hasta la descripción de la primera vuelta al mundo realizada por Magallanes y ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-03-21 Género:Historia 5,99 €

An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia. Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia, The Fatal Shore is the definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia. 'A unique phantasmagori...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-02-23 11,99 €

In introducing this book, I should like to commend it to its readers as giving an account of the explorers of Australia in a simple and concise form not hitherto available. It introduces them to us, tells the tale of their long-tried patience and stubborn endurance, how they lived and did their work, and gives a short but graphic outline of the work they accomplished in opening out and preparing Australia as another home for our race on this side of the world. The battle that they fought and won...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-07-29 2,99 €

There was a period when maps of the world were published whereon the part occupied by the continent of Australia was a blank space. On other maps, dating from about the same time, land masses were represented which we now know to have been imaginary. Let us look at four examples. The first is a map drawn by Robert Thorne in the reign of Henry VIII (1527). He said in an apology for his work that ‘it may seem rude,’ and so it was; but it serves the purpose of proving that Thorne and the Spanis...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-12-25 3,99 €

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. For around 40,000 years before European...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-02-01 0,49 €

Plutôt que d’alimenter de nouvelles controverses sur l’an mil, il s’agit ici d’étudier en profondeur la période - de 950 à 1050 environ - qui encadre le millénaire, dans un très large horizon qui va de la Scandinavie à Al-Andalus et de l’Atlantique aux marges du Caucase. Les hommes et leurs cadres de vie (habitat, occupation du sol, culture matérielle) sont désormais mieux connus grâce aux données récentes de l’archéologie et des paléo-sciences de l’environnement, ici...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-02-27 12,99 €

This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed, the movements and conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhe...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2003-10-13 Género:Historia 9,49 €

The Australian Exploration Anthology features the first-hand personal accounts of the explorers: Captain William Dampier, Captain James Cook, Matthew Flinders, John McDouall Stuart, John McKinlay and William Wills. This book charts the history of the exploration of the vast continent of Australia by the European newcomers who arrived at the last great habitable continent to be discovered. This comprehensive anthology begins with the initial seaborne forays of the sometime pirate Captain William ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-04-06 2,99 €

‘This is a book about Australian food, the unique flora and fauna that nourished the Aboriginal peoples of this land for over 50 000 years. It is because European Australians have hardly ever touched these foods for over 200 years that I am writing this book.’ We celebrate cultural and culinary diversity, yet shun the foods that grew here before white settlers arrived. We love superfoods from remote, exotic locations, yet reject those that grow in our own land. We say we revere sustainable l...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-02-01 14,99 €

‘Peasley's description of the events … is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.' —Don Grant, Australian Book Review ‘The intriguing story of [the rescue of an elderly couple believed to be the last Australian nomads] and how they survived alone for the previous 30 years or so in the unrelenting western Gibson Desert region of WA, is fascinating reading.' — Chris Walters, The West Australian ‘This is a most remarkable book ab...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-01-01 10,99 €

From its earliest days, Qantas has attracted its fair share of unusual challenges and unique characters. These are the stories of a great airline and the people who made it, told by a man who has Qantas blood running through his veins. They are hilarious, nostalgic, heroic and sometimes even odd. They are about the brilliant risk takers who made Qantas the safest airline in the world, the special demands of flying VIPs, the hazards of overseas postings, and the ever present dangers of the skies....

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-10-21 7,99 €

This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of pre–American Hawaii. Isabella Lucy Bird won fame in her own time as the most remarkable woman traveler of the nineteenth century, and Six Months in the Sandwich Isles , in which she describes her sojourn in Hawaii in 1873, is one of the gems of Pacific literature. It is safe to say that no other book about Hawaii surpasses it in fascination. Much of the charm of Isabella's writing is due to h...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-02-19 Género:Historia 10,99 €

This book is about an extraordinary character whose journalistic byline was a household name 100 years ago. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett was a flamboyant, daring war correspondent, although perpetually broke and with very expensive tastes. He went off to cover the war in the Dardanelles for the mainstream London press in 1915, and witnessed the Anzacs storm ashore at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He wrote with colour and flair of the outstanding heroism and bravery of the young Australians. His sco...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-10-20 10,99 €

On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island. And so began the race to compile the definitive map of Australia. These men's journeys were the culmination of t...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-07-03 3,99 €

Capturing China’s past in all its complexity, this multi-faceted history portrays China in the context of a larger global world, while incorporating the narratives of Chinese as well as non-Chinese ethnic groups and discussing people traditionally left out of the story—peasants, women, merchants, and artisans. Offers a complete political, economic, social, and cultural history of China, covering the major events and trends Written in a clear and uncomplicated style by a distinguished histori...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-08-05 23,99 €

Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to cover up its past?Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia. Putting a human face on the convicts' experience, she paints a rich picture of their crimes in Britain and their lives in the colonies. We know about Por...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-04-01 10,99 €

The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.  Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in New Guinea during World War II, from invasion in 1942 to the brutal end game in 1945. Besides giving new perspectives on the Kokoda campaign, the book covers the battles that preceded and those that followed, most of which have previously received scant attentio...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-09-01 Género:Historia 10,99 €

Written by Australia's 'first native born novelist' John Lang, this is a fascinating tale of the early years of Australian colonisation. It has been reprinted many times over the years, sometimes appearing as 'Clever Criminals' or 'Remarkable Convicts'.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-06-15 3,99 €

A fantastic eye-witness account of the first four years of the Australian settlement that became modern day Sydney. Written by Lieutenant-General Watkin Tench, who served in the First Fleet.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-06-15 3,49 €

Lauded historian Geoffrey Bolton vividly narrates this long-awaited short history of Western Australia. From 1826 to the present, Land of Vision and Mirage covers the social, cultural, political and economic development of the most geographically isolated area in the world. While being both informative and analytical, the author’s wry observations about Western Australia’s unique history will stimulate public debate.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2008-06-01 4,99 €

The pioneers of Australian civilisation in the territory known as North Queensland have mostly passed away; they were too busy with other activities and interests and more absorbing local topics to make notes of the days that are gone. A record of the work they did, and their march of progress through the unknown land, was a matter that no one recognised as of any importance to themselves or others. “The daily round and common task” took up most of their time, and sufficient for the day was ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-07-29 2,99 €

Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71.  A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS. with Notes and Introduction, edited by Captain W.J.L. Wharton, R.N., F.R.S. Hydrographer of the Admiralty, 1893. Illustrated by Maps and Facsimiles.  The first published account of perhaps the most celebrated and, certainly to the English nation, the most momentous voyage of discovery that has ever taken place -- for it practically gave bir...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2003-07-12 Género:Historia 2,49 €

From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia’s Graveyard , the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company’s flagship, was loaded with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company’s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Ba...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2002-02-12 Género:Historia 3,49 €

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. For around 40,000 years before European s...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-02-01 0,49 €

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. For around 40,000 years before European...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-02-01 0,49 €

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. For around 40,000 years before ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-02-01 0,49 €

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. For around 40,000 years before European...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-02-01 0,49 €

"Wherein are described the islands Timor, Roti and Anabao. A Passage between the islands Timor and Anabao. Kupang and Laphao Bays. The islands Omba, Fetter, Banda and Bird. A description of the coast of New Guinea. The islands Pulo Sabuda, Cockle, King William's, Providence, Gerrit Denis, Anthony Cave's and St. John's. Also a new passage between New Guinea and New Britain. The islands Ceram, Bonao, Bouro, and several islands before unknown. The coast of Java, and Straits of Sunda. Author's arriv...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-02-01 0,49 €