A Pictorial History of Australia
Author: Rex Rienits
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →References to Aborigines throughout, including early contact and conflict; brief description of lifestyle.
Author: Rex Rienits
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →References to Aborigines throughout, including early contact and conflict; brief description of lifestyle.
Author: David Frith
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780670070732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the first Test Match between England and Australia was staged in Melbourne in 1877, generations of cricket lovers have been thrilled and beguiled by what is surely the greatest sporting encounter between two nations in the modern age. This was never more evident than in the extraordinary 2005 series that saw England regain the Ashes. Australia versus England is the product of vast reserarch. It incorporates over 1330 pictures, from the beginning in 1877 through to the 2006-07 series when Australia regained the Ashes 5-0. All the major scores are here, with match reports and a treasure chest of illustrations from the 316 Test matches between the two rivals. This book has enchanted young and old since its first edition in 1977 coincided with the never-to-be-forgotten Melbourne Centenary Test. It is now in its 12th edition, and more than ever it remains a gem for all who savour the game of cricket, its history and its drama.
Author: PHILIP. PAYTON
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781743056554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1840s Cornish miners and their families came pouring into South Australia to take their part in the new colony's great copper boom. They came to lend their home-grown expertise to extracting the rich ore that gave South Australia a world-wide reputation as being the Copper Kingdom.
Author: Mary Machen
Publisher: Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0908272650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pictorial history of Canberra, and a timely resource for those interested in discovering the origins of our federal capital. This book covers the Aboriginal history, the establishment of early settlement in the district, the birth of the city and the growth and development of Australia's centre of national government.
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Publisher: Adelaide : Rigby
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History of Australia covering the period from the goldrush days to the first World War.
Author: Anne-Maree Whitaker
Publisher: Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0908272693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the municipality of South Sydney, from Woolloomooloo, around Garden Island, Elizabeth and Rushcutters Bays, through the Cross and Darlinghurst, and over to Waterloo, Zetland, Rosebery via Moore Park. Heading east, South Sydney stretches to Paddington, and then through Redfern and into Alexandria, Erskineville and Newtown. It also embraces Camperdown, Darlington and Chippendale. Many of the photographs in this fascinating book are from an exhibition that toured the municipality in 2000, drawn from the collections of past and present residents.