The autobiography of Waipuldanya, a full-blood Aboriginal of the Alawa tribe at Roper River in Australia's Northern Territory, as told to Douglas Lockwood.

In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aide only of his spears and woomeras.

This is the gripping story of his boyhood and youth, and how he trained as a skilled medical assistant, to become a citizen of both the Aboriginal and whitefella worlds.

Achtung bitte: Verschiedene Ausgaben werden geliefert, je nach dem, was gerade vorrätig ist.

Die furchtbare, entsetzliche Wahrheit übermannte mich: Ich war allein in der Wüste. Der Schrecken in meiner Lage starte mich mit derart klar hervorbrechender Wirklichkeit an, dass es mir für einen Augenblick fast den Verstand raubte... Eine Ewigkeit wird das Grauen dieser Nacht nicht auslöschen können. (Edward John Eyre, 29. April 1841, australischer Entdeckungsreisende, über die australische Wüste.)

James Cook erforschte mit drei großen Expeditionen ferne Länder und unbekannte Wasserstraßen. Der englische Weltumsegler hat zahlreiche Entdeckungen gemacht und Studienergebnisse vorgelegt, die maßgeblich zu einem wissenschaftlich fundierten, neuzeitlichen Bild der Erde beitrugen. Cook umsegelte Neuseeland, dessen Doppelinselnatur er nachwies, betrat als erster Europäer die Hawaii-Inseln, befuhr die Küste Alaskas und durchquerte die Beringstraße. Er war ein genialer Seefahrer und zugleich ein wichtiger Denker der Aufklärung. Nicht zuletzt wiederlegte Cook mit seinen Reisendie alte Vorstellung von der Existenz eines gewaltigen Südlandes - der "Terra australis incognito".

Australians and their Driza-Bones

This beautifully illustrated book retells many of the Legends, Lore And Lies which surround this national icon, from its beginnings on storm-tossed sailing ships last century to its adoption as part of Australia's national attire.

A landmark volume about the experience of migration from the United Kingdom to Australia during the nineteenth century. Through the letters and diaries of those on board we glimpse the details of everyday ship life, share in the writers' hopes for the future and their grief over children buried at sea.
This wonderfully rich and moving book provides new insight into the lives of those who migrated from the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century. It evocatively describes the experiences of emigrants in steerage on their passage to Australia, and of those charged with their care.
Robin Haines is a senior research fellow in history at Flinders University. She is the author of Emigration and the Labouring Poor: Australian Recruitment in Britain and Ireland 1831–60.

On Our Selection (1899) is a series of stories written by Australian author Steele Rudd, the pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis, in the late 1890s, featuring the characters Dad and Dave Rudd.

Against the backdrop of the Australian landscape, these are the tales about the farmers of the area on their small selection farms. The hardships, sufferings and the tough lifestyle of those people is elucidated in these pages. The indomitable will of the people who stand in face of extreme adversity is also beautifully captured. Riveting!

Steele Rudd's books were also the basis for the famous "Dad and Dave" radio series of the 1950's and 1960's in Australia.

From Wikipedia: In Australian history, a selection was a "free selection before survey" of crown land under legislation introduced in the 1860s, similar to the United States Homestead Act. Selectors often came into conflict with squatters, who already occupied the land and often managed to circumvent the law.

The Bulletin magazine published the illustrated collection comprising 26 stories in 1899 as On Our Selection. Within four years 20,000 copies had been printed. It afterwards appeared in numerous low priced editions and by 1940 the number of copies sold had reached 250,000.