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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...

Date de sortie: 2010-02-23 11,99 €

Dans un geste hautement symbolique, le 5 mai 2018, le président Emmanuel Macron a remis au gouvernement calédonien les deux actes originaux des prises de possession de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de l'île des Pins. Mais dans quelles circonstances ces documents ont-ils été établis et signés ? Comment l'expédition a-t-elle été organisée et vécue à bord du navire le Phoque ? Dans ce texte de 1892, Albert de Salinis nous présente les témoignages croisés du commandant Candeau, chef d'é...

Date de sortie: 2018-06-01 0,99 €

The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adv...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-14 4,99 €

Christian Blanc a été un acteur majeur des événements qui se sont déroulés en Nouvelle-Calédonie, entre 1984 et les accords de Matignon de 1988. Il livre ici un document exceptionnel sur cet épisode mouvementé. « Au moment où va commencer ce récit, les Calédoniens sont en état de choc. Un soulèvement insurrectionnel des populations kanak, indépendantistes, vient d’éclater… » On le suivra de bout en bout, avec de nombreux témoignages inédits qui nous plongent au ...

Date de sortie: 2021-03-31 19,99 €

L’Australie est une entité géographique indéfinissable. Une île, un pays, un continent, toutes les définitions semblent correspondre à cette terre qui attire de nombreux visiteurs pour son accueil, sa stabilité, et son mélange de modernité et de tradition. C’est à juste titre que beaucoup le qualifient d’île-continent. Si personne ne peut affirmer connaître la date exacte de la première présence humaine sur cette île, on sait qu’à sa découverte par les Européens, de nom...

Date de sortie: 2017-02-21 4,49 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2003-10-13 Genre:Histoire 9,49 €

L'Australie, île-continent située entre l'océan Pacifique sud et l'océan Indien, ne compte que 22 millions d'habitants (2010) sur un territoire de 7 682 300 kilomètres carrés. Le territoire australien est une partie de l'ancien Gondwana et fut habité il y a 60 000 ans par des populations venues de l'ancien continent de Sahul, aujourd'hui l'Asie...

Date de sortie: 2015-10-28 3,99 €

A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch earthquakes and the 2011 Rugby World Cup!  A lively and accessible history written by one of New Zealand’s most well-known commentators on matters past and present. Succinct and well referenced, this book is the most accessible introduction to New Zealand history currently in print. 

Date de sortie: 2014-04-06 8,49 €

The coastal populations of the South Sea Islands, with very few exceptions, are, or were before their extinction, expert navigators and traders. Several of them had evolved excellent types of large sea-going canoes, and used to embark in them on distant trade expeditions or raids of war and conquest. The Papuo-Melanesians, who inhabit the coast and the out-lying islands of New Guinea, are no exception to this rule. In general they are daring sailors, industrious manufacturers, and keen traders. ...

Date de sortie: 2020-03-31 Genre:Histoire 4,99 €

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia’s past, from megafauna to Macquarie – the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of “felony of sock”, and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the mi...

Date de sortie: 2013-07-31 8,99 €

"Le second exemplaire de la série « Tu connais ? » aborde une question ultrasensible en Océanie et surtout en Polynésie française. Bien souvent, en ce domaine comme dans d’autres « on » croit connaître. Chacun se fait spécialiste du nucléaire, des maladies radio-induites, de l’histoire et de la science politique. Cet ouvrage veut apporter des repères indiscutables sur l’histoire des essais nucléaires en Océanie (essais américains, britanniques et français). » Jean-Marc Reg...

Date de sortie: 2021-08-06 8,99 €

The mutiny on HMS Bounty , in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's great epics - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty 's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian most of the crew mutinied soon after sailing from Tahiti, setting Captain...

Date de sortie: 2019-02-07 3,99 €

Newly married, Jeannie Gunn accompanies her husband to 'The Elsey', the huge cattle station in the Northern Territory, several hundred miles from the nearest town. She is one of the few white women in the area and her presence is at first resented by the stockmen until her warmth and spirit win their affection and respect. This is one of the few autobiographies written by a woman to chronicle the life of the pioneers of the outback. In the style of the bush storyteller, Mrs Gunn conveys with mov...

Date de sortie: 2012-04-24 3,49 €

The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adv...

Date de sortie: 2011-08-16 4,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2002-02-12 Genre:Histoire 3,49 €

James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ...

Date de sortie: 2001-09-13 14,99 €

The extraordinary story of the 20th century's most recognisable building, with new insights into the people involved and the controversy that surrounded its construction. Winner of the 2018 Walkley Book Award The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse. Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the S...

Date de sortie: 2018-08-15 9,99 €

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 ...

Date de sortie: 2017-04-06 2,99 €

First there was Girt . Now comes ... True Girt In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt transports us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous Indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm and sheep. Lots of sheep. True Girt introduces Thomas Davey, the hard-drinking Tasmanian governor who invented the Blow My Skull cocktail, and Captain Moonlite, Australia’s most notor...

Date de sortie: 2016-10-31 7,49 €

A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieutenant James Cook, in the Endeavour, in the year 1770. With Illustrations, Charts, Maps, Diagrams, etc. Copious Notes, References, Geographical Index and Index to Names. George Collingridge (1847–1931) was an Australian writer and illustrator best known today for his early assertions of Portuguese discovery of Australia in the 16th century. His publicati...

Date de sortie: 2015-12-16 1,49 €

Antarctic Diaries of the Heroic Era Imperfect records yet the best available as exemplified by the 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson, Western Base party, Australasian Antarctic Expedition The centenary of the departure of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), celebrated in Hobart on 2 December 2011, ignited interest in the documenting of Heroic Era expeditions and of the AAE 1911-1914 in particular. Simultaneously, the publication of artist and biologist Harrisson’...

Date de sortie: 2013-03-04 Genre:Histoire 1,99 €

The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adv...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-14 4,99 €

The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adv...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-14 4,99 €

The Friendly Islands: 1616 to 1900 is a fascinating 49,000 word book of the rich history of the Kingdom of Tonga over 300+ years. Prepare to be fascinated by the early observations of Europeans, and the struggle of the missionaries that influenced the nation two centuries ago.

Date de sortie: 2001-01-01 6,99 €

“A compelling chronicle of the Battle of Papua New Guinea with rarely viewed images from World War II . . . an excellent book.” — Naval Historical Foundation The Japanese seizure of Rabaul on New Britain in January 1942 directly threatened Northern Australia and, as a result, General Douglas MacArthur took command of the Southwest Pacific Area. In July 1942, the Japanese attacked south across the Owen Stanley mountain range. Thanks to the hasty deployment of Australian militiamen...

Date de sortie: 2020-05-27 Genre:Histoire 4,99 €

Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre. Les îles Marquises portent la marque d’hommes dont le peuple a failli disparaître, rompus à préserver leur culture et leur originalité. La symphonie turquoise des lagons polynésiens s’arrête ici, au pied de ces fascinants contreforts montagneux qui, jadis, hypnotisèrent Paul Gauguin et Jacques Brel. Les Marquises ne sont pas qu’une terre paradisiaque. Leur relief est rude. Leurs vallées sont hors d’atteinte...

Date de sortie: 2021-06-11 Genre:Histoire 6,99 €

The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most people have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England and immigrating to Queensland in 1883, he established a reputation as a rider, polo player and poet who submitted ballads to The Bulletin and counted Banjo Paterson as a friend. Travelling on his wits and...

Date de sortie: 2021-05-06 3,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2020-02-27 12,99 €

Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to...

Date de sortie: 2020-05-07 3,99 €

Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre. Une immensité. Un monde à part. Une histoire de violence façonnée par une colonisation pénitentiaire dont les vestiges sont promus au rang de trésors nationaux. L’Australie est née de la folie de navigateurs perdus dans les confins du Pacifique. Il fallut ensuite aux administrateurs venus d’Europe conquérir, éliminer, repousser toujours plus loin son peuple aborigène. L’Australie est un continent de cicatrices...

Date de sortie: 2019-10-28 Genre:Histoire 6,99 €

In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set sail on a small British naval vessel, the boldly named Endeavour , bound for the Pacific Ocean. He was ordered to establish an observatory at Tahiti in order to record the 1769 transit of Venus, and – with the skills of naturalist Joseph Banks and his team – to collect natural history in this far part of the world. But Cook’s brief also included a secret mission from the British Admiralty: to discover Terra Australis Incognita, an unknown souther...

Date de sortie: 2020-03-31 10,99 €

The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa to rescue the men from the stone walls of this hell on Earth known...

Date de sortie: 2019-10-03 3,99 €

New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this foreign land and its people. In this groundbreaking history of early New Zealand, Paul Moon details how so many of the events in this decade - the introduction of aggressive capitalism, the arrival of lite...

Date de sortie: 2012-04-26 9,49 €

The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime to the first contact between Europeans and Indigenous Australians, through to the Uluru Statement, it offers an insight into the life and experiences of the world's oldest surviving culture. The resilience and adaptability of Aboriginal people over millennia is one of the great human stories of all time.  Josephi...

Date de sortie: 2019-06-17 11,99 €

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 ...

Date de sortie: 2019-03-21 Genre:Histoire 5,99 €

While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. <br> <br> Lapérouse and Labillardière, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge.<br> <br> This is their story—deeply researched and richly imagined by zoologist and award-winning science writer Danielle Clode. <br> <br> Winner of the Vict...

Date de sortie: 2018-03-20 6,49 €

The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth. Many had tried to escape Macquar...

Date de sortie: 2018-06-01 Genre:Histoire 8,99 €

The Margaret River region of Australia’s south-west is internationally renowned for its award-winning wines.  There are now more than 200 wineries, predominantly boutique style, in the region, producing more than 20% of Australia’s premium wine market. The Way It Was  tells the story of the  early days of the region’s wine industry, from the first plantings by Dr Tom Cullity in 1967 through an informative text and many illustrations.

Date de sortie: 2017-12-01 13,99 €

The First Discovery of Australia And New Guinea; Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts by George Collingridge. This study of the Discovery of Australia shows that early Portuguese navigators were the first Europeans to sight Australia between 1521 and 1524, well before the arrival of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606 on board the Duyfken who is generally considered to be the ...

Date de sortie: 2017-07-13 Genre:Histoire 1,49 €

Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the VOC. He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands. His navigator François Visscher, and his merchant Isaack Gilsemans, mapped substantial portions of Australia, New Zealand and some Pacific Islands. No life of the first circumnavigator of Australia has hitherto appea...

Date de sortie: 2017-07-10 1,49 €

‘What had happened to the stolen islanders? Had any survived slavery?’ One day in 1863 a strange ship stopped at ‘Ata, a tiny island in the wild seas between Tonga and New Zealand, and sailed away with one hundred and forty-four men, women and children. The ‘Atans were never heard from again, and in Tonga their fate became the subject of legends and superstitions. Uncovering the tragedy of ‘Ata takes Scott Hamilton on a journey to the kava circles and caves of Tonga and back to the str...

Date de sortie: 2016-11-21 3,49 €

No te taenga ki te kohuru i Rangiaohia, katahi au ka mohio he tino pakanga nui tenei, no Niu Tireni. When it came to the (time of the) murder at Rangiaohia, then I knew, for the first time, that this was a great war for New Zealand Wiremu Tamihana (1865) A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863–64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Māori and Pākehā relations by several generations and allowing the gove...

Date de sortie: 2016-10-10 14,99 €

&lsquo;Peasley's description of the events &hellip; is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.' —Don Grant, Australian Book Review &lsquo;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 &lsquo;This is a most remarkable book ab...

Date de sortie: 2009-01-01 10,99 €

In the nineteenth century, the word bohemians initially conjured the primitive, exotic and mysterious power of gypsies, but in a few short years would be used to describe any nomadic or vagabond character - with strong overtones of poverty and even criminality. In Australia, bohemians have been associated with subcultures, and movements across most creative arts and media for more than 150 years. Our cities spawned networks of poets, painters, novelists, journalists, philosophers, actors, filmma...

Date de sortie: 2012-07-01 11,99 €

A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. “A meaty, engrossing narrative history… This will likely stand as the definitive account of the New Guinea campaign.” —The Christian Science Monitor  One American soldier called it “a green hell on earth.” Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impa...

Date de sortie: 2016-01-05 Genre:Histoire 12,99 €

2016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the Humanities A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day. Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest times to the present Argues that while the region remains a highly diverse mix of religions, ethnici...

Date de sortie: 2015-03-03 26,99 €

“Stephen L. Moore offers what will soon be ranked a major military classic... A major, first-rate, authoritative contribution to the literature of WWII.”— Leatherneck   From the author of Pacific Payback comes the gripping true story of the Cactus Air Force and how this rugged crew of Dive-Bombers helped save Guadalcanal and won the war. November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through ...

Date de sortie: 2015-11-03 Genre:Histoire 10,99 €

A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is a historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 and built a house at Vailima. He quickly became passionately interested, and involved, in the attendant political machinations. These involved the three colonial powers battling for control of Samoa - America, Germany and Britain - and the indigenous factions struggling to preserve their ancient political system. The book covers the pe...

Date de sortie: 2014-12-03 0,99 €

This major work reveals the dark heart of the history of the Stolen Generations in Australia. It shows that, from the earliest times of European colonization, Aboriginal Australians experienced the trauma of loss and separation, as their children were abducted, enslaved, institutionalized, and culturally remodeled. Providing a moving and comprehensive account of this tragic history, this study covers all Australian colonies, states, and territories. The analysis spans 200 years of white occupati...

Date de sortie: 2000-11-01 11,99 €

Merv was brought up as one of 14 children. His father was a farmer, and for most of his life, Merv was a farmer. He volunteered to join the army during the second World War, and was sent to Singapore. When a decision was made that Singapore could not hold against the Japanese, the Allied Forces were ordered to surrender. It could not have been realised at the time just how barbaric the Japanese were to be in the treatment of their prisoners. "I will never forget the utter despair of the young me...

Date de sortie: 2014-06-16 1,49 €