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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Madness in the family	Catharine Coleborne	"Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New Sout…	OL15025999W
Uluru, Australia's Aboriginal heart	Caroline Arnold	Describes Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, in Australia's Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, its plant and animal life, and the country's Aboriginal people for whom the site is sacred.	OL15853419W
The biggest estate on earth	Bill Gammage	"Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country es…	OL16302653W
The colony	Grace Karskens	A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to…	OL16586645W
Liam Hemsworth	Jody Jensen Shaffer	"You may know that Liam Hemsworth stars as good-looking tough guy Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games films. But did you know that Liam: once dressed as a table tennis player for Halloween, complete w…	OL17879909W
Purifying empire	Deana Heath	"Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I…	OL18569634W
Paradise in chains	Diana Preston	"Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story …	OL19722712W
Miss ex-Yugoslavia	Sofija Stefanovic	"Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in 1982, when she is born in Belgrade, the capital of socialist Yugoslavia. The circumstances of her birth (a blackout, gasoline shortages…	OL19746031W
Art Museums in Australia	Katarzyna Jagodzińska	290 pages ; 24 cm	OL21160856W
Australia	Ann Weil	Presents general information about Australia, looking at the history, wildlife, geography, government, and culture of the continent.	OL21205781W
Australia in the Great War	Philip Payton	272 pages : 24 cm	OL21807923W
Catherine McMahon	Damian King	This meticulously researched story of Catherine McMahon covers her life before and after she became a convict in Van Diemen's Land. The lives of her two husbands are also covered, her first husband J…	OL23215259W
100 years	Kelly, Paul	Based on the forthcoming 5-part television series 100 Years: The Australian Story, this is an exploration of who we are as a nation, where we have come from and where we are going, by one of Australi…	OL2406617W
In the Outback	Simon Chapman	Looks at what it would be like to survive as an explorer in the Australian outback. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.	OL24271830W
The Ashes	Ken Piesse	A history of the Ashes test cricket series between Australia and England, from the 1880s to the present day.	OL2488933W
The fatal shore	Robert Hughes	An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Gove…	OL258380W
Australians	Thomas Keneally	A masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.	OL29072569W
Dancing with strangers	Inga Clendinnen ,Inga Clendinnen	In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what…	OL4480436W
Shakespearian talks	John Beresford-Fowler	104 p. ; 19 cm	OL7116688W
Australian Bush Ballads	Douglas Stewart,Nancy Keesing	A compilation of Australian bush poetry and songs.	OL8024926W