Best of
Australia

1992

From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback


Rick Smolan - 1992
    Her 1,700-mile solo journey across the Australian outback was a cover story in National Geographic, and her account of her trek has become a worldwide bestseller. Now the photographer who originally took the pictures for the NG story combines Davidson's text with his award winning photos, most never before published.

All in the Blue Unclouded Weather


Robin Klein - 1992
    Each story links the girls and their friends together in a variety of domestic events and problems. The stories present a nostalgic feel for the post-war years.

The End of Certainty: Power, Politics Business in Australia


Paul Kelly - 1992
    From boom to recession, Hawke to Keating, and Labor's victory for the "true believers" in 1993, Paul Kelly has written the ultimate inside story of how the 1980s changed Australia and its political parties forever. His detailed scrutiny of the inner working of the Hawke-Keating partnership and its slow disintegration, his unraveling of the crippling rivalries for the Liberal Party leadership, and his burrowing into cabinet room struggles over the deregulation of Australia's financial system reveal the brutal realities of Australian politics and how it is played at the very top. But above all, he reminds us of the sheer pace of economic and social change the country lived through and the wake of uncertainty it left behind. Joining The Hawke Ascendancy, this is the second installment in Paul Kelly's analysis of modern Australian politics.

The Fatal Friendship: Ned Kelly, Aaron Sherritt & Joe Byrne


Ian Jones - 1992
    A fitting end for the story's Judas and one that immediately guaranteed his place as the classic traitor of Australian history and folklore. The symmetry of the Byrne/Sherritt/Kelly story was so perfect that the verdict on Aaron Sherritt remained unchallenged. It was 112 years before Ian Jones, Australia's highly respected Kelly historian and author of the definitive biography, Ned Kelly: A Short Life, finished weaving together the enthralling and complex story that lay behind the murder of Aaron Sherritt: a story of betrayal and deception in which Sherritt became the victim - and the unwitting destroyer of the Kelly Gang.

Collected Poems


Les Murray - 1992
    In addition, this volume includes Subhuman Redneck Poems, winner of the 1996 T.S. Eliot Prize.

Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From The Kokoda Trail To Gona Beach 1942


Peter Brune - 1992
    Peter Brune presents the definitive account of Australian soldiers on the Kokoda Trail, a story told through the eyes of the Australians who fought there.

Reptiles And Amphibians Of Australia


Harold G. Cogger - 1992
    

The Wreck of the Barque Stefano Off the North West Cape of Australia in 1875


Gustave Rathe - 1992
    One of only ten crew members to make it to shore after a shipwreck, sixteen-year-old Miho Baccich struggles to survive, with the aid of an aboriginal tribe, on the desolate North West Cape of Australia.

The Australian ABC


Colin Thiele - 1992
    

A Fence Around The Cuckoo and Fishing in the Styx


Ruth Park - 1992
    First published in two separate volumes this is the complete and unabridged autobiography of Miles Franklin Award winning Australian author Ruth Park.

Everyday Devils And Angels


Michael Leunig - 1992
    All he could trust was sighing, sobbing, swearing, screaming and singing. If you asked him why he no longer believed, he would sigh... He would sob... He would scream and swear. And then he would start to sing like a bird.'

Lovers' Knots


Marion Halligan - 1992
    Set in the coastal town of Newcastle, where Halligan grew up and went to university, the novel begins as if it were a family saga covering the century 1911-2011, but its narrative denies the conventional chronology evoked and shatters as if into the fragments caught by photographs.

Raukkan


Margaret Brusnahan - 1992
    Four poems from this collection have previously appeared in other publications.

Down Under


Jan Reynolds - 1992
    Amprenula lives closely with the land, just as her people have done for thousands of years, taking only what they need from the forest and the ocean around them.For the Tiwi and other Aborigines, the land is sacred. It connects them with their ancestors and the beginning of creation. As Amprenula combs through the forests and mangrove swamps, she is proud to travel along the same paths, sharing the same land, as her ancestors from centuries ago.

The Sugar-Gum Tree


Patricia Wrightson - 1992
    When best friend Sarah Bell calls Penny May a gloop, a sugar-gum tree becomes the site of a stand-off that involves their parents and the fire department but can only be resolved by the girls themselves.

Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland


Constance Campbell Petrie - 1992
    Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Great Changes in One Lifetime--How Shells and Coral Were Obtained for l.ime-making --King Island or "Winnam "--Lime-burning on Petrie's liight--Diving Woik--Harris's Wharf--A Trick to Obtain "Grog"-- Reads Like Romance--Narrow Escape of a Diver. sfir, YC DEGREES' an lnstance f tne great changes which have Myfnk taken place in Brisbane in even less than one DEGREESr-N DEGREES DEGREESJiii-tmu-. is interesting to follow my father's experiences of the way in which shells and coral for lime-making were obtained when he was a boy, As already mentioned, a punt did the carting from the Bay, and as a protection to them from the blacks, "Tom" was sent with the crew, for, being so well known among the darkies, the lad was a safeguard to anyone in his company. The shells used were obtained from the sandy point on the Humbybong side of the mouth of the Pine River, where they were plentiful then in the required dry, dead state; and this point the blacks called " Kulukan " (pelican), because at low water the bank there was crowded with pelicans. Four men besides my father manned the boat, and they went with the ebb down the river, anchoring at the mouth till the tide turned again and came up some two feet, thus enabling the party to surmount the difficulty of sandbanks. Planks were fixed along each side of the punt, so that the men could walk from end to end, and each man had a long light pole with which to shove the boat along. They kept in as close to the shore as was possible, and so with the help of the tide got slowly along past where Sandgarte is now, onwards to the mouth of the Pine, Father steering. Four baskets made by old Bribie, the basket-maker, also two or three rakes to gather together the shells, formed part of the punt's outward-going cargo, and...

The Flying Emu And Other Australian Stories


Sally Morgan - 1992
    By the author of My Place.