The creature from Berkeley's Creek thinks he's a bunyip but no one agrees because bunyips simply don't exist.

    This book contains a selection of the most well-known and best loved of Paterson's poems including those favourites, Waltzing Matilda, Saltbush Bill, and A Bush Christening.Pro Hart's paintings reflect the moods of the poems and add to the charm of the book.This is a book which will delight the already countless number of Paterson admirers and will doubtless bring many newcomers to their ranks.

    The reasons behind the Great War and its profound effect on the attitudes and ideals of Australia are intertwined with intimate personal details in this beautifully constructed narrative.

    Clement Killeaton transforms his father's obsession with gambling, his mother's piety, the cruelty of his fellow pupils and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex, into an imagined world centred on horse-racing, played in the dusty backyard of his home, across the landscapes of the district, and the continent of Australia. Out of the child's boredom and fear and fascination, Murnane's lyrical prose opens perspectives charged with yearning and illumination, offering in the process a truly original view of mid-twentieth-century Australia.[Back-cover blurb]

    Despite centuries of observation, each year brings the discovery and description of several entirely new avian species and hundreds of other taxonomic splits or lumps based on DNA data. In this arena of continual and increasing taxonomic change, The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World is a compendium of the more than 9,800 species of birds recognized by the scientific and birding communities. This completely revised sixth edition incorporates hundreds of updates since the last edition. In taxonomic sequence, it provides the scientific and English name of each species and a description of the worldwide range of each species and subspecies.The most established resource on the taxonomy and biogeography of birds for the world birding community, The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World is the official world checklist of the American Birding Association (ABA) and is used as the authoritative reference in the birding competitions and listing activities of this preeminent North American organization for serious birders.- Comprehensive indexes with all taxa listed by English and scientific names- Tables and maps showing the world distribution of total bird species and endemics by geographic area, which will be of special interest to conservationists- Space to record the location and date of individual sightings, providing the user with a personalized ornithological journal