Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the governance of South Australia. Land was sold to investors, unseen and unsurveyed and in an unknown location. The sales raised the funds needed to found the new colony of Palmerston, the future capital of the ......
This fascinating food biography of one of the world's great cities, Sydney, takes the reader from its prehistory through its unpromising foundation as a convict settlement confronted by starvation, to its status today as an international culinary destination.
Hill End Hearsay relates the evolution after a gold rush has passed. A human side with real characters bred from gold seeking die hards that still scratched a living from a left over rush. A shrinking society that through necessity developed multitalented skills to cope with encroaching isolation and the lack of supply as demand for services by ......
First published1982 (188 pages portrait size) was heralded then, as the most up to date historical paper on gold in Australia with the focus on Hill End. In 1983 the N.S.W. State Libraries Service bulk purchased for distribution into its affiliates. This book has been used by many who have written similar since. Compiled at a ......
This is a true story of greed, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and extraordinary bushmanship, amid government bungling and Aboriginal resistance, during South Australia's first attempt at colonising their Northern Territory in 1864.
First published in 1985 to commemorate 100 years since Holtermann died and now expanded to include many unpublished rare original documents held by the History Hill Museum. A rags to riches story following the man most associated with the world’s largest piece of gold that went onto set other world records. One of the main reasons for this ......
Decades before the First Fleet, French ships were exploring large stretches of Australia. This Handsomely colour-illustrated book tells the story of intrepid French explorers who charted and named many regions, laid claim to the West Coast and, but for upheavals back in Europe, could have established a French colony in Australia.
Fort Dundas was the first outpost of Europeans in Australia's north. It was a British fortification manned by soldiers, marines and convicts, and built by them on remote Melville Island in 1824.
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of New Zealand contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
