Perfect for growing families or as a baby shower gift. When Koala Lou’s mother becomes so busy that she forgets to tell her firstborn how much she loves her, Koala Lou enters the Bush Olympics, intending to win an event and her mother’s love all at one time. Filled with charming art and featuring a heartwarming story about family, read the classic that's been called, “a first-rate choice for bedtime, story hour, or reading aloud.”--The Horn Book.

    This trilogy features the novels 'Missus', 'The Harp in the South', and 'Poor Man's Orange' by Ruth Park.

    His experiences, as he has collected them together in Hell West and Crooked, will surely become an Australian classic.

    The Robinsons have more problems than most of the families in the fruit growing community where they live. But this year is a year of promise. They are assured of a bumper crop, and they can finally afford to have electricity laid on - until unexpected misfortune finds them yet again ...

    Then arrogant, wealthy Reeve McKenna captures Maggie’s untried heart, thrilling her senses with the sweet, dark rush of desire. But Reeve cannot be hers alone, for he is obsessed by his search for his beloved brother James, lost two decades before. Reeve’s fierce hunger for the Yankee beauty is not yet love, and Maggie wants both the breathless pleasure of his passion and the full surrender of his heart—or nothing at all. One of America’s most romantic writers, Linda Lael Miller brings the white-hot passion of Moonfire to the Australian frontier country in this sensuous story of two lovers bound by desire.

    Caught in an England convulsed by industrial change, they became the unwitting and unwilling pioneers of a new land.Framing them all is the story of the indomitable Susannah Watson who, trapped in the crowded filthy slums of Nottingham, stole because she "could not bear to see her children starving". Separated forever from her husband and four children, Susannah was transported for 14 years but served 16. She endured the convict system at its worst, yet emerged triumphant to die in her bed aged 83 singing Rock of Ages.First published by Macmillan in 1991, Babette Smith's timeless classic has been hailed as the greatest recounting of an extraordinary chapter in our colonial history.

    Perhaps the greatest novel by Gerald Murnane, Australia’s reply to Proust and Calvino, and a Nobel favorite for several years running, Inland shows that one can as easily be an exile in one’s own interior as out in the wide world, and as easily feel the loss of people one has only imagined as those who have shared our lives in the flesh.

    Full-color guide • Make your trip to Australia unforgettable with illustrated features, 65 maps, and 260 color photos.Customize your trip with simple planning tools • Convenient overviews of each region and its highlights • Practical advice for getting around • Easy-to-read color regional mapsExplore Sydney, the Great Barrier Reef, the Outback, and beyond • Discerning Fodor’s Choice picks for hotels, restaurants, sights, and more • “Word of Mouth” tips from fellow Fodor’s travelers • Illustrated features on Mod Oz cuisine, Aboriginal art, and Tasmania’s convict trail • Best scenic drives, wineries, and dive spots   Opinions from destination experts • Fodor’s Australia–based writers reveal their favorite local haunts • Revised frequently to provide the latest information

    He traveled south in 1907 with Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition; in 1911 as leader of the Australasian Antarctic expedition; and twice between 1929 and 1931 as leader of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition. Gathered here are Mawson’s diaries from each of these four trips, volumes which provide an intimate perspective on the stress and conflicts inherent to each journey, their achievements and failures, joys and tragedies. Gripping and unrestrained, this is a revealing look at one of history’s most daring adventurers.

    It will surely be a standard work of reference for many years to come. The 47 superb colour plates form the backbone of the book, each plate being accompanied by an informative caption page summarising the criteria required to identify, and in many cases, to age and sex each species, along with colour world distribution maps and an easy-to-use cross reference system to the main body of text.

    The red brick childhood of the Baby Boomers, in the second half of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, with its inkwells, Saturday afternoon serials and Meccano sets has gone forever.Read this book and relive your childhood. Experience the horror of your first dance. Taste the warm school milk. Feel the weight of your Globite school case.As a Baby Boomer you had an extraordinary childhood. This book brings it all flooding back. Everything from Brylcream to Boleros, tadpole collecting, getting the cane at school and cracker night.See your feet through the shoe shop's x-ray machine. Fall off your two-wheeler again. Smell Mum's chook cooking on Christmas Day.The magic of your childhood hasn't disappeared. It's here.

    

    And as he makes the journey north, the velodrome is never far from Leon's consciousness.

    Here is a book which can be used by the basic cook at home or it can be given as a gift to special friends, both in Australia and overseas. The beautiful photography covers all States and Territories of Australia and gives our international friends a window to our lifestyle, both living and eating.We sincerely trust that you, the reader and user of this book, will get a similar feeling of satisfaction that we, the publishers, received from compiling and producing the book.

    And the only artists we knew were the pavement artists down on their knees along the embankment.Sarah Hodge was names after a drunk who came down Keppel Street and sat on the doorstep singing on the night of the child's birth: not a promising start for a girl in 1890s London. But while Sarah's is not a world of culture or cash, it is a world of noise, of colour, of love: a world of toffee-apple men, Italians selling Lemon Ice, Pink Ice and Ice-cream Plain, gypsies and flower girls, rag shops and boozers.Her story is both the story of a bygone London and the story of a girl's passage into womanhood. Through 'ordinary' eyes we see tragedy, courage, love and sacrifice; children who are wanted, children got rid of with boiled currants and gin; men loved, men despised.This is a remarkably powerful tale. beautifully told; a work of great talent and vigour.The book cover illustration is by Barbara Hanrahan.