Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The Australian Encyclopædia: M to Z
Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The A to Z of Australia
Author: James C. DochertyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810876345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The last continent to be claimed by Europeans, Australia began to be settled by the British in 1788 in the form of a jail for its convicts. While British culture has had the largest influence on the country and its presence can be seen everywhere, the British were not Australia's original populace. The first inhabitants of Australia, the Aborigines, are believed to have migrated from Southeast Asia into northern Australia as early as 60,000 years ago. This distinctive blend of vastly different cultures contributed to the ease with which Australia has become one of the world's most successful immigrant nations. The A to Z of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of flora and fauna, a climate that ranges from tropical forests to arid deserts, and the largest single collection of coral reefs and islands in the world. Through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets, author James Docherty provides a much needed single volume reference on Australia, from its most unpromising of beginnings as a British jail to the liberal, tolerant, democracy it is today.
Medical Journal of Australia
Author: The Australian Encyclopaedia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : AUSTRALIA ENCYCLOPEDIAS.
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Handbook of Australasian Biogeography
Author: Malte C. EbachPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1315355779
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
The Handbook of Australasian Biogeography is the most comprehensive overview of the biogeography of Australasian plants, fungi and animal taxa in a single volume. This volume is unique in its coverage of marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and subterranean taxa. It is an essential publication for anyone studying or researching Australasian biogeography. The book contains biogeographic reviews of all major plant, animal and fungal groups in Australasia by experts in the field, including a strong emphasis on invertebrates, algae, fungi and subterranean taxa. It discusses how Australasia is different from the rest of the world and what other areas share its history and biota.
The Australian encyclopedia
Author: A.L.A. Booklist
Author: Blood Brothers
Author: Jeff Hopkins-WeisePublisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking work shows, for the first time in detail, how the military, social and economic brotherhood later embodied in the notion of the Anzac spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of the North Island of New Zealand
The Australian Encyclopaedia
Author: Alec Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Virginia postmistress Mary "Harry" Haristeen has another murder case to solve, as pieces of the victim keep turning up around town.
The Illustrated Australian Encyclopedia
Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description