| (Watkin Tench)
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| This account of the first three years of settlement in Australia by Europeans, who sailed to Australia on the First Fleet, is still very readable. Tench, a humane and intelligent man, describes the difficulties of cultivation, relations with the natives and other relevant topics.
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| (Ellen (Mrs Charles) Clacy)
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| This well-written and interesting story describes a visit by the author to the Australian gold fields in 1853.
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| (Watkin Tench)
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| Watkin Tench was a lieutenant on one of the ships of the First Fleet which sailed from England to Australia in 1788. This, his account of the voyage and the first months of the new settlement, includes details of the the departure, the convicts, the arrival and other relevant subjects. Written more than 200 years ago it is, nevertheless, still very readable today.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| Franklin wrote throughout her life, however "My Brilliant Career" and "All that Swagger" were the only novels which had literary success. The book contains memorable characters and paints a picture of the Australian outback in the early twentieth century.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| Though published in 1931, before two of the (chronologically) earlier novels in the saga, this story is the final part in the series which follows the lives of Australian pioneering families appearing in four earlier novels by Franklin, using the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin"--"Up the Country", "Ten Creeks Run", "Cockatoos" and "Gentleman at Gyang Gyang". The fortunes of the Mazeres, Pooles, Stantons, Brennans and others are continued up to the late 1920s.
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| Boomerang won the James Tait Black memorial prize and marked Simpson's arrival as a significant contemporary novelist. It was her first book to deal with Australia. The novel begins in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, and is then set in other parts of the world, including Australia. It ends in the trenches in France during the 1914-18 war.
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| (Barbara Baynton)
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| A collection of several short stories including: A Dreamer, Squeaker's Mate, Scrammy 'And, Billy Skywonkie, Bush Church, and The Chosen Vessel. The stories display a grim realism and depiction of female suffering which represents an alternative view to the romanticism of the bush.
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| (Louis Becke)
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| A collection of short stories. Becke published about thirty-five books during his lifetime and his speciality was the south sea tale. The stories are still very readable.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| In this, the third novel in the saga of Australian pioneering days, following "Up the country" and "Ten Creeks Run", Miles Franklin, using the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin", tells a tale of restless youth, soaring ambition and thwarted dreams.
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| (Ethel Pedley)
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| Dot, a young girl, gets lost in the outback after chasing a rabbit into the bush and losing sight of her home. She is approached by a red kangaroo who gives her some berries to eat. Upon eating the berries, Dot is able to understand the language of all animals, and she tells the kangaroo her plight. The kangaroo, who has lost her own joey, decides to help Dot despite her own fear of humans.
Pedley dedicated the book "To the children of Australia in the hope of enlisting their sympathies for the many beautiful, amiable, and frolicsome creatures of their fair land,
whose extinction, through ruthless destruction,
is being surely accomplished."
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| (Joseph Lievesley Beeston)
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| This is a narrative of personal experiences of Joseph Lievesley Beeston, the officer commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force. The ship carrying the men from Australia cleared Albany, Western Australia, on the last day of 1914 and landed at what is now known as Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.
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| (Marcus Clarke)
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| This is the best known novel of life as a convict in early Australian history. The story follows the fortunes of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder that he did not commit. The book clearly conveys the harsh and inhumane treatment meted out to the convicts, some of whom were transported for relatively minor crimes, and graphically describes the conditions the convicts experienced. The novel was based on research by the author as well as a visit to the penal settlement of Port Arthur. [Wikipedia]
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| This story, which Franklin wrote using the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin", continues the saga which began with "Up the Country", "Ten Creeks Run" and "Cockatoos".
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| (Lennie Lower)
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| Eighty short, humorous pieces from the author of "Here's Luck."
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| (Lennie Lower)
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| An instant best-seller when it first appeared, this is an account of the riotous adventures of a suburban battler in Sydney. An Australian classic.
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| (Brian Penton)
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| This is the sequel to "Landtakers", the story of pioneering life in Queensland in the first half of the 19th century.
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| (Louis Stone)
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| 'Jonah' is a novel set in Sydney in the early 1900s. Many of the places described--Chinatown and Paddy's markets, Botany Road, Sydney Harbour and its foreshores--are icons of Sydney. The characters--members of the 'Push', rags-to-riches businessmen like Jonah and battlers like Chook and Pinky--are as recognisable today as when Stone wrote about them. This novel has been described as the first great novel about Sydney. It has been the subject of a television series and has been adapted for the stage.
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| (Brian Penton)
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| A story of pioneering life in Queensland from 1824-64. Derek Cabell, an Englishman of good family, has come to Australia to make his fortune and then return "home". As with so many, he makes his life in Australia.
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| (E J Banfield)
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| This book, published posthumously, was the last of a number of books published by E J Banfield which told of his experiences as a "beachcomber" on Dunk Island off the Queensland cost.
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| (Allan Macpherson)
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| An account of the many difficulties and dangers Allan Macpherson experienced in taking up the pastoral station of 'Mount Abundance,' near the present town of Roma in Queensland.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| Written while she was still a teenager, the novel gained immediate popularity. The perceived closeness of many of the characters to her own family and circumstances as small farmers in New South Wales led Franklin to withdraw the novel from publication until after her death. The story concerns the experiences of an imaginative girl growing up in Australia in the 1890s.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| Following the publication of "My Brilliant Career" in 1901 Franklin tried a career in nursing, and then as a housemaid in Sydney and Melbourne. Whilst working in these jobs she contributed pieces to The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald under the pseudonyms "An Old Bachelor" and "Vernacular." During this period she wrote a sequel to "My Brilliant Career" ("My Career Goes Bung") which proved too contentious to publish and did not become available to the public until 1946. [Wikipedia]
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| (Jack McLaren)
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| In 1911, Jack McLaren landed at Simpson's Bay on the west coast of Cape York in Queensland and, with the help of local Aborigines, built a house and established a coconut plantation. Some of his experience are recounted in this book. He also makes observations on the small fauna inhabiting his land and provides anecdotes about his Aboriginal companions. My Crowded Solitude is counted as an Australia's classic.
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| (Emma Macpherson)
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| A woman visits New South Wales with her husband and child in 1856. They travel to "Keera," a "station" near Bingara, in the New England area, along a route which has become the New England Highway. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the past and highlights the obstacles which had to be overcome to travel anywhere in the mid 19th century.
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| (E J Banfield)
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| This is the sequel to "Confessions of a Beachcomber." E J Banfield continues the story of his life on Dunk Island in the early twentieth century and provides many observations regarding the flora and fauna.
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| (Steele Rudd)
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| A collection of anecdotal stories describing life on a rural "selection" (a small farm) in Queensland. Subsequently produced as a movie and the radio series 'Dad and Dave' spanning 20 years.
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| (Steele Rudd)
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| The sequel to "On Our Selection." A book of anecdotal stories describing life on a rural "selection" (a small farm) in Queensland. Subsequently produced as a movie and the radio series 'Dad and Dave' spanning 20 years.
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| (William Westgarth)
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| Westgarth, an early Victorian merchant and historian, was chairman of the commission of enquiry into the Eureka rebellion. He was in Australia from 1840 to 1857, when he returned to England. He visited Australia again in 1888. This book has been described as "one of the most fascinating accounts of early Victoria ever written."
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| (William Mogford Hamlet)
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| W. Mogford Hamlet twice walked from Brisbane to Sydney (1907 and 1913) and in 1912 he walked from Sydney to Melbourne, covering some 750 miles (1200 km) in thirty-three days. At the time, accounts of this trips were serialised in the Sydney Morning Herald. Those accounts are now, for the first time, presented here in one volume. Hamlet presents us with the sights and sounds of the country and describes many of the towns he passed through. He also draws word pictures of some of the characters he meets along the way.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| This semi-autobiographical novel, set in England and Europe was written by Miles Franklin under the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin." It was completed in 1925 but not published until 1950.
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| (Rolf Boldrewood)
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| In this classic Australian novel, written in the first person, the narrator tells the story of his life and loves and his association with the notorious bushranger, Captain Starlight. It is set in the bush and goldfields of Australia in the 1850s.
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| (George Witton)
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| George Witton was a Lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in South Africa. He was sentenced to death for murder after the shooting of Boer prisoners. He was subsequently reprieved by Kitchener, although Lieutenants Peter Handcock and Harry "Breaker" Morant who had been court-martialed with him were executed by a firing squad on 27 February 1902. [Wikipedia]
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| (David Carnegie)
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| This book is a remarkable account of discovery and survival in a most inhospitable part of Australia. Carnegie was the fourth son of the Earl of Suffolk in England. After education as an engineer, he worked on tea plantations in Ceylon, but joined the rush to Coolgardie when gold was discovered in Western Australia in 1892. Over a period of five years he prospected, and led several important exploring expeditions into some of Australia's most arid areas. After leaving Australia, he was appointed Assistant Resident in Nigeria where, at the age of twenty-nine, he died as a result of a wound inflicted by a poison arrow. At the time he was involved in attempting to stop a native uprising.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| This story of the horse and cattle stations of the Murrumbidgee area of New South Wales is the second in a saga which follows the fortunes of the families introduced in "Up the Country", an earlier novel written by Miles Franklin under the pen name "Brent of Bin Bin". It takes the story to the middle of the 1890s.
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| (Dorothy Wall)
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| This children's classic includes Blinky Bill; Blinky Bill Grows Up; and Blinky Bill and Nutsy. While telling the adventures of Blinky Bill, a naughty little boy in the form of a koala, the stories also present messages of conservation. Blinky Bill is known for his mischievousness and his love for his mother. His friends include his adopted sister Nutsy, his kangaroo friend Splodge, his platypus friend Flap, Marcia the marsupial mouse, and his mentor Mr Wombat or Wombo, as Blinky prefers to call him. Wikipedia.
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| (E J Banfield)
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| In this classic Australian book, Banfield tells of his experiences on Dunk Island, a tropical island off the east coast of Australia, where he and his wife settled in the early 1900s. His observations on the bird, animal and plant life are intriguing, as is his interaction with the aborigines.
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| (Henry Handel Richardson)
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| This trilogy comprises "Australia Felix" (1917), "The Way Home" (1925), and "Ultima Thule" (1929). The three books were collected in 1930 under the title by which it is now best known. This book is an Australian classic.
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| (Henry Handel Richardson)
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| This "coming of age" story tells of Laura Rambotham, a girl of twelve who is sent to a girls' boarding school. She is bullied and ridiculed by her fellow srudents, who are richer and also better able to deal with life.
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| (Arthur Kitson)
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| This biography of Cook includes many quotations from his journal and includes details of his three voyages, including his journey along the east coast of Australia. Many of the places he named on the voyage are mentioned.
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| (E J Banfield)
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| In this book Banfield continued the description of his life as a "beachcomber" on Dunk Island, off the Queensland coast.
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| Helen Simpson herself said of this book:
"It will be seen that Sydney, in the year 1831, may very well serve as setting for a highly-coloured, improbable, and yet simple story."
The setting is Sydney in the 1830s. Charles Adare has arrived in Sydney with his uncle, the new governor. Adare hopes to make his fortune. He is befriended by Samson Flusky a prosperous businessman who is a former transported convict.
If the story is improbable and highly-coloured, it is certainly not a simple one. Furthermore,
the characters are wonderfully drawn so that any improbability in the mind of the reader is
soon suspended. A picture emerges of the diminishing class differences which were evolving
in Australia in the nineteenth century.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| This is a story of settlement in the Monaro district of New South Wales from about 1830 to 1870 and is the first of a series of five novels about pioneering and country life, covering the period from the 1830s to the 1920s. Miles Franklin wrote the stories using the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin."
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| (H C F Morant)
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| Helen and her pet Koala, Tirri, are taken on an adventure through the ages of time by Whirlaway, an elf-like creature. This story has not been in print since it was first published in 1937.
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