books in August 2021 New Titles released in 2021 in Australian History

Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin - a contested history by Quentin Beresford

Winner, Queensland Literary Awards 2022, Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance

Like many Australians, I looked on with horror as images ...

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The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth Century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton

A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne's history. Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable ...

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Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australiaand New Zealand 1844-1845 by Philip Jones

George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive ...

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The Ferals that Ate Australia: The fascinating history of feral animals and winner of a 2022 Whitley Award from the bestselling author of The Dogs that Made Australia by Guy Hull

Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmare. Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna ...

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