In 1995 The Miegunyah Press became a separate imprint of MUP, and its distinctive window logo appears on all books published in the second series. For the benefit of collectors and those who appreciate the many aspects of fine book production, titles in the second series include a colophon page at the end of the book. This lists the book's editor and designer, the typeface used in the text, the paper on which it is printed, the name of the printer and the number of copies printed.
Titles listed below without a catalogue link are out of print. In some cases, a catalogue link will provide further information about a paperback editions that are still available.
Titles published in: 1995-1996 > 1997-1998 > 1999-2000 > 2001-2002 > 2003 > 2004 > 2005 > 2006 > 2007.
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Andrew Dwyer Illustrated with more than 200 stunning images by award-winning photographer John Hay, Outback is a celebration of the extraordinary beauty of the Australian outback with delicious recipes and campfire stories of explorers, rogues and adventurers. |
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State Library of Victoria with Richard Aitken, Leigh Astbury, Ashley Crawford, Graeme Davison and Brenda Niall The Art of the Collection is a celebration of the State Library of Victoria's Picture Collection - the oldest visual documentary collection in Australia. Acting on its mandate to collect and preserve Victoria's documentary heritage, the Library acquires paintings, maps, diaries and documents that showcase all facets of Victorian life, past and present. |
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Des Cowley and Clare Williamson 'All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book.' French poet St'phane Mallarm understood that books hold the world's stories. From the earliest known myths and legends to postmodern fictions, books are mirrors of real worlds, windows into imagined worlds and keepers of powerful ideas. Beautifully illustrated, The World of the Book is a celebration of this age-old tradition drawing upon the rare collections of the State Library of Victoria. |
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Christine Dew On the streets of Australian cities there are conversations occurring in paint in public spaces. Graffiti, stencil and street art are immediate and ephemeral. Yet the same media is gaining worldwide currency, with many art galleries collecting and showing these works. Uncommissioned Art, beautifully illustrated with images from Australia's world-renowned graffiti and street art scene, includes interviews with some of this country's most important artists and discusses the evolution and politics of this growing artform. Uncommissioned Art: An A-Z of Australian Graffiti offers new ways to look at street art and explores its cultural and aesthetic impact. |
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A Dictionary of Sea Quotations Edward Duyker A Dictionary of Sea Quotations surveys nearly four millennia of literature, including novels, poems, songs and religious texts, to show the extraordinary diversity of the human experience of the sea, the passions that it awakens and the hold it has on our imagination. Historian Edward Duyker draws upon the annals of sea exploration, the carnage of naval war and excerpts from the memoirs of admirals, yachtsmen, castaways, naturalists, pirates, privateers, U-boat commanders, surfers and statesmen. |
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Philip Ayres This is the first biography of Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), Cardinal of Sydney, based on extensive research in Australia, Italy and Ireland. It places Moran within the historical contexts of his life's work: Rome of the 1848 revolution, Italy of the risorgimento, Ireland in the age of rebellion, and Australia in the period of Federation. |
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Dr Charles Pickett and Caroline Butler-Bowdon Australian cities are being remade by an unprecedented apartment boom with more apartments than houses being built in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Homes in the Sky features many of the best known and most sought-after apartment buildings in Australia, and is the first comprehensive look at this controversial yet celebrated form of architecture. |
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Bryony Cosgrove (ed.) Love, marriage, births, deaths, poetry, art, politics, gardens, pets and philosophy: the letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright in Portrait of a Friendship range over all of these topics and more with the wit and vitality of writers who relished the play and beauty of words. |
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Danielle Clode Voyages to the South Seas recounts the epic journeys of French explorers to Australia and encompasses a remarkable period of French and Australian history when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens. Australia may have been colonised by England, but for many years, by sheer weight of specimens and scientific documentation, Australia's biodiversity belonged to France. ?? |
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Tim McCormack and Cheryl Saunders (eds) Compiled in honour of Sir Ninian Stephen's 80th Birthday, A Remarkable Public Life is a collection of essays by Australia's most respected legal, political and diplomatic figures. The essays celebrate Sir Ninian's contribution to the Australian public life: the High Court, the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and the International Criminal Tribunal. |
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Sir Gustav Nossal Between 1965 and 1996, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute underwent great, sometimes tumultuous, development and grew significantly in size and research scope. The story of these years is related with the unique perspective of an insider by then director, Sir Gustav Nossal. The History of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute from 1965 to 1996 showcases Australian medical research at its best.
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Patrick Morgan (ed.) The political activist and journalist Bob Santamaria began as an advocate and champion of the Catholic Church, and was a key figure in the ALP-DLP Split in the 1950s. He also ran a lesser known anti-Communist Movement throughout Asia at the same time as his Australian Movement. The selection of letters in Your Most Obedient Servant span more than sixty years and reveal a person more subtle in his views than his public persona would suggest. |
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Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Philip Goad (eds) This first anthology of modernist art, design and architecture in Australia reveals the raw nerves that modernism exposed and highlights the role of migrants, expatriates, travel and mass reproduction in the reception of modernism in Australia. |
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John S. Levi Biographical entries for over 1600 Jews who settled in Australia between 1788 and 1850. |
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Patrick McCaughey Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan were friends and rivals but never antagonists for the whole of their working lives as artists. Together they participated in the struggle to establish modern art in Australia in the 1940s. From the outset they were regarded as major artists possessed of a powerful and original vision. Yet by a quirk of fate they rarely lived in the same city or the same continent after 1947. Each deeply valued the friendship, however, and strove to preserve it through this remarkable correspondence. |
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2.80 | Botanical Riches Richard Aitken With illustrations of extraordinary splendour and beauty, Botanical Riches is a colourful history and enthralling tale of botanical exploration. |
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Juan Davila Davila's art sets to counter indifference in the community and spark intellectual discourse on many issues in the international cultural and political landscape. His work has critiqued directly the Australian political system, the greed of late capitalism, the oppression exerted by Western art history, the representation of sexuality, and the treatment of marginalised peoples, including Indigenous people in Australia and Chile and refugees. This book features a powerful selection of paintings, installations and works on paper from the early 1970s to the present, as well as a selection of the artist's incisive essays and written commentary on key works. |
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2.78 | Australia's Quarter Acre Peter Timms Who invented the rotary clothesline, the lawn-mower and the fibreglass swimming pool? Why are our back gardens today so different from those of our grandparents? And whatever happened to the chrysanthemums and marigolds that once made front gardens so colourful? In this fascinating and detailed look at the ordinary suburban block, Peter Timms traces the development of its design, its plantings and its hidden meanings, explaining how we have used our gardens for pleasure, relaxation and food production. |
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2.77 | Cr'me de la Phlegm Angela Bennie This book is stupendously bad, the cr'me de la phlegm of memoirs Cr'me de la Phlegm is a landmark collection of famous and infamous Australian reviews of literature, theatre, music, film, architecture and the visual arts. In her eloquent essay Angela Bennie surveys some of Australian criticism's most |
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Great Philanthropists on Trial |
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Fran'ois P'ron An Impetuous Life |
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A Public Life These are his absorbing memoirs. They are a personal recollection of an outstanding career, as well as a reflection of twentieth-century history both Australian and international as seen through the eyes of a man at the forefront of Australian public life for more than fifty years. |
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2.72 | Remembered Gardens Holly Kerr Forsyth Remembered Gardens is the story of Elizabeth, Edna and six other women whose passions for their gardens and for garden making have shaped our relationship with the Australian landscape. Through personal records and public archives, Holly Kerr Forsyth brings to life these women's experiences. Their challenging and sometimes tragic stories are set against the backdrop of their gardens, which provided them with sanctuary and a way to express themselves in this often hostile environment. For later women like Edna Walling and Kath Carr, gardens also allowed them to carve out a significant career and reputation. |
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2.71 | Voyage and Landfall Patrick McCaughey Ten-year-old Jan Senbergs landed with his family in Melbourne in 1950, driven by tragic and violent events in the closing months of World War II from his native Latvia. His story is a remarkable voyage from a refugee arriving at Port Melbourne, unable to speak English, to a major Australian painter with a powerful and searching vision of his country. |
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2.70 | On Looking at Looking Ann Stephen Ann Stephen traces the complex life and intellect of Ian Burn and explores the unique contribution he made to Australian art as artist, writer and curator. |
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2.68 | Plastered Murray Walding with Nick Vukovic Plastered leads us on a chronological journey through popular music poster art the jazz, rock and roll, pop and punk scenes in Australia. More than five hundred posters from the past five decades are reproduced, most from the collection of avid archivist Nick Vukovic, and featuring the work of renowned poster artists such as Ian McCausland and Reg Mombassa. Roger Butler from the National Gallery of Australia tells us where poster art sits in the world of fine art and Murray Walding evokes the stories of the artists, promoters and performers that surround these posters.
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2.64 | Dearest Munx Edited by Margaret Harris From the time Christina Stead, a shy Australian girl in London, met William J. Blake, a cosmopolitan American, theirs was one of the great love stories. |
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2.55 | The Art of War Betty Churcher The Art of War focuses on the wars that have been an unrelenting feature of the past hundred years, showing how war changed art in the twentieth century and how art has changed attitudes to war. |
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2.69 | The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton (eds) An expanded edition of The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer, with a new introduction by John Morton. |
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2.67 | One Brief Interval Sir Edward Woodward The former Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sir Edward Woodward, looks back on his life--both public and private--from a childhood during World War II to the present day. |
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2.66 | The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize Peter Doherty Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty offers readers an insider's guide into just what scientists do all day. |
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2.65 | The Pursuit of Wonder Julia Horne The Pursuit of Wonder follows colonial tourists such as Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie, Eugen von Gu'rard and Louisa Atkinson as they rolled up their sleeves or loosened their corsets in pursuit of nature. Imagining herself in their dusty shoes, historian Julia Horne explores the beginnings of environmental tourism, and the influence of European ideas of travel, nature and art on the Australian landscape. |
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2.63 | Per l'Australia Julia Church One migrant's mixed emotions evoke the story of all migrants and refugees throughout history - a story of hope, grief and wilful determination to succeed in a strange new land. For thousands of Italians this new land was Australia.
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2.62 | Mythform Paul Carter Mythform is the story of how Nearamnew, the massive public artwork integrated into the fabric of Federation Square in Melbourne. was conceived, developed and installed. |
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2.61 | A Merciful Journey Marsden Hordern A Merciful Journey is a delightful memoir of a young man's coming of age in wartime. |
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2.60 | Degenerates and Perverts Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller with Judith Pugh The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art was the most momentous art exhibition ever held in Australia. More than 200 works by modern masters, including C'zanne, Dal', Picasso and Modigliani, arrived in Australia on the eve of World War II and remained in the country until the end of the war.
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2.54 | Clearings Paul Fox A collection of beautifully illustrated stories of six colonial gardeners and their making of the Australian landscape. |
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2.59 | An Eye for Photography Alan Davies Tracing the development of photography in Australia from daguerreotypes to digital imagery; both a reflection and an intriguing record of technological, social and artistic change over 150 years. |
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2.58 | Papunya: A Place Made After the Story Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon The extensive and stunning publication of Geoffrey Bardon's first-hand records of the beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement. |
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2.57 | Horse And Rider in Australian Legend Nanette Mantle An engrossing exploration of the myth of the stockworker, the bushranger and other heroic horseback figures through Australian literature and art. |
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2.56 | Gardenesque Richard Aitken A visual tour of stunning images of more than 200 years of gardening and garden making, from the State Library of Victoria's extensive collections. |
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2.53 | Beach Crossings Greg Dening Beach Crossings is a book of extraordinary richness that crosses genres as well as beaches, blending memoir and social history, ethnography and elegy, cultural studies and testament. |
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2.52 | Through Artists' Eyes: Australian Suburbs and Their Cities 1919-1945 John Slater Foreword by Bernard Smith This beautifully illustrated book shows how artists recorded the coming of Modernity, the tearing down and rebuilding of city centres and the lives of ordinary people at work and at leisure. |
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2.51 | Harold Desbrowe-Annear: A Life in Architecture Harriet Edquist An excellent biography of the well-known Melbourne architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear, much admired by Robin Boyd who recognised him as one of the most important pioneers of modernist architecture in Australia. |
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2.50 | Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land Donald Thomson, compiled and edited by Nicholas Peterson Anthropologist Donald Thomson sought a government commission to investigate the grievances of Yolngu men gaoled for killing Japanese pearl fishermen who had raped several Yolngu women in 1932. |
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2.49 | Lionel Lindsay in Spain: An Antipodean Abroad Colin Holden This book presents a selection of the dramatic etchings and brilliant water colours of the Mediterranean countries produced by Lindsay in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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2.48 | Mr Felton's Bequests John Poynter When Alfred Felton died in 1904 he left 378,033 in trust to the people of Victoria, the income to be split between approved charities and the acquisition of art. |
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2.47 | A New City: Photographs of Melbourne's Land Boom Edited by Ian Morrison A New City explores a collection of photography by Charles B. Walker of Melbourne and its suburbs in the 1880s. |
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2.46 | The Global Reach of Empire: Britain's Maritime Expansion in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, 1764-1815 Alan Frost A study of British maritime and imperial expansion in the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the second half of the eighteenth century. |
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2.45 | Treasures: Highlights of the Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne Edited by Chris McAuliffe and Peter Yule One of the most significant collections in Australia, comprising some 25,000 items and ranging over all artistic media, reflects the development of cultural taste over 150 years. |
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2.44 | Lina Bryans: Rare Modern 1909-2000 Gillian Forwood Lina Bryans 'beautiful, generous and unconventional' was a significant and influential artist of the modernist movement in Australia. |
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2.43 | Citizen Labillardi're: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834) Edward Duyker The first comprehensive study of eighteenth-century naturalist, Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardi're-a story of science, survival and a grand adventure. |
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2.42 | Owen Dixon Philip Ayres The first biography ever written of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972). |
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2.41 | Patrick White, Painter Manqu: Paintings, Painters and their Influence on his Writing Helen Verity Hewitt It is a little-known fact that a vital source of inspiration for Patrick White was the art of painting. This brilliantly original and revealing book is the first study of this potent source in White's life. |
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2.40 | Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian Ann Galbally Now available in paperback A fascinating biography of one of the youngest, most original and most talented members of the Heidelberg School of impressionist painters. Beautifully illustrated. |
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2.39 | The Boyds: A Family Biography Brenda Niall Also available in paperback The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. This 'family biography' by award-winning writer Brenda Niall traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition. |
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2.38 | The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his Art Gary Catalano This book focuses on the works of Melbourne artist Rick Amor. It traces the development of Amor's art from his earliest years as an artist, to the present. |
| 2.37 | Colonial Consorts: Wives of Victoria's Governors: 1839-1900 Marguerite Hancock Victoria had ten British governors during the nineteenth century, and all were accompanied by their wives. Marguerite Hancock draws on archival material to reveal the private feelings of eleven very different women. |
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2.36 | Voyage to Australia and the Pacific: 1791-1793: Bruni d'Entrecasteaux Edited and translated by Edward & Maryse Duyker First English translation of de Rossel's transcription of d'Entrecasteaux's journal, with introductory essay and explanatory notes. |
| 2.35 | Australian Gothic: The Gothic Revival in Australian Architecture from the 1840s to the 1950s Brian Andrews Explores the nature, scope and sources of the Gothic Revival, from the grand buildings, the great architects and their patrons, to the not-so-good, the humorous, the pretentious, the copy-cats and their works. |
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2.34 | The Colonial Earth Tim Bonyhady Winner of the 2001 NSW Premier's History Prize Winner of the 2001 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2001 Victorian Premier's Literary Prize Shortlisted for the 2001 The Age Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Harper Collins Publishing Best Designed Fiction and Non-fiction book in the 2001 APA Book Design Awards Also available in paperback Taking art as his starting point, Bonyhady explores how issues such as the preservation of endangered species, the protection of forests, the maintenance of public rights over the foreshore and even the likelihood of climate change already loomed large in colonial Australia. |
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2.33 | David Collins: A Colonial Life John Currey The life of David Collins judge, historian and governor who was one of the founders of Sydney in 1788, began the first European settlement in Victoria in 1803, and founded Hobart Town the following year. |
| 2.32 | Rolf Boldrewood: A Life Paul de Serville As 'Rolf Boldrewood', Thomas Alexander Browne wrote the evergreen Robbery under Arms. He was also a squatter and civil servant. |
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| 2.31 | The Art Movement in Australia: Design, Taste and Society 1875-1900 Andrew Montana Stunningly illustrated, this is a ground-breaking study of a fascinating key period in Australia's aesthetic and social history. |
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2.30 | Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Art John Pigot Hilda Rix Nicholas was an accomplished artist who set out to carve a place for herself alongside the most important male painters in Australia between the wars. |
| 2.29 | William Frater: A Life with Colour Dick Wittman This first monograph on Frater's life and work presents original biographical research and includes 32 colour plates with appreciations. |
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| 2.28 | The Orchids of Tasmania David Jones, Hans Wapstra, Peter Tonelli and Stephen Harris A fully illustrated guide to the Tasmanian orchid flora with descriptions, keys, habitat information and distribution maps. |
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2.27 | Mawson: A Life Philip Ayres Also available in paperback A biography covering the full range of Sir Doulgas Mawson's life and work, his character and attainments, his virtues and faults, his place in the past and his significance for the present. |
| 2.26 | The Governor's Noble Guest: Hyacinthe de Bougainville's Account of Port Jackson, 1825 Introduced and edited by Marc Serge Rivi're A translation of the private diaries kept by Baron Hyacinthe de Bougainville, son of the famous French Pacific navigator Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, during his stay in New South Wales. Available October 1999 |
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2.25 | The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, New South Wales 1798-1800 Transcribed and edited with an introduction by Pamela Jeanne Fulton The journal of John Washington Price, the surgeon of the transport Minerva which sailed from Cork for Sydney in 1799 carrying 200 convicts. |
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2.24 | Maritime Paintings of Early Australia 1788-1900 Martin Terry The first major study of an often neglected aspect of Australian painting. Published in a large, illustrated format, it surveys the genre from the beginning of European settlement to the year 1900. Martin Terry demonstrates how the major themes of early maritime painting were often influenced by economic and historical factors. |
| 2.23 | Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape K. S. Inglis Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize for 1999 Joint winner of the 1998 FAW Literature Award War memorials, large and small, stand everywhere in the Australian landscape. They embody what Australians have wanted to say about the service and death of their compatriots in overseas wars and express pride, grief, perceptions of God, empire and nation. The story of their making is composed of both harmony and conflict. Ken Inglis argues that they are the shrines of a civil religion. |
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2.22 | The Griffins in Australia and India: The Complete Works and Projects of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin Edited by Peter Y. Navaretti and Jeffrey Turnbull The first comprehensive study of every major work undertaken in Australia and India by these two pioneer architects of the early twentieth century. Profusely illustrated with photographs and plans, it examines more than 260 projects and explores the question of why the Griffins chose to practise in Australia. |
| 2.21 | Distracted Settlement: New South Wales after Bligh from the Journal of Lieutenant James Finucane 1808-1810 Anne-Maree Whitaker The fascinating journal of James Finucane, published here for the first time, provides new insights into the life in the colony of New South Wales between the deposition of Governor William Bligh and the arrival of his successor, Lachlan Macquarie. |
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| 2.20 | Clunies Ross: Australian Visionary L. R. Humphreys Ian Clunies Ross was a remarkable Australian scientist who promoted a broad and generous vision for Australia. He was Chairman of CSIRO until his death in 1959 and Deputy Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. This fine and accessible biography reveals Clunies Ross as a gifted communicator who believed wholeheartedly that science could transform society for good ends. |
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2.19 | A Life on the Ocean Wave: The Journals of Captain Bayly 1824-1844 Edited by Pamela Statham and Rica Erickson Encounters with cannibals, convicts and pirates were just some of the highlights of eleven long journeys around the world (some to Australia) made by Captain George Bayly in the early nineteenth century. His stories of typhoons, floods, heroic rescues, shipboard quarrels and deaths give the book appeal to a wide audience. |
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2.18 | The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of C'leste de Chabrillan in Gold-rush Australia Edited and translated by Patricia Clancy and Jeanne Allen Also available in paperback A former Parisian courtesan, bare-back-rider and polka dancer, C'leste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne when she arrived in 1854 as the French Consul's wife. Her vivid first-hand memories of years spent in the diplomatic and government house circles and on the goldfields reveal her as a woman of great energy and will. |
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2.17 | Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782 Edward Duyker This is the first full biography of an important eighteenth-century naturalist, a colleague of Banks on the Endeavour. Aside from the historic Endeavour voyage, Solander's Arctic travels, his involvement in industrial espionage in England on behalf of Sweden, his thwarted love for Linnaeus' daughter and his friendships with such men as Samuel Johnson, Matthew Boulton and Benjamin Franklin make Solander an exciting biographical subject. |
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2.16 | King of the Australian Coast: The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822 Marsden Hordern Winner of the N.S.W. Premier's General History Prize, 1998. Short-listed for the Colin Roderick Award, 1997 Also available in paperback Many books have been written about Cook and Flinders but few know much about Australia's third great hydrographer, Phillip Parker King (1791-1856). Marsden Hordern, author of the award-winning Mariners are Warned! has now written an absorbing and masterly account of King's life and his five hazardous hydrographic voyages. |
| 2.15 | The Wentworths: Father and Son John Ritchie The Wentworths spans two generations. Against a backdrop which ranges from the mansions of Georgian England to the hovels of New South Wales, John Ritchie tells how D'Arcy Wentworth endeavoured to re-establish himself and to further the career of the son for whom he cherished great expectations. |
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| 2.14 | John Gould in Australia: Letters and Drawings Ann Datta The Australian correspondence of the nineteenth-century ornithologist John Gould is of immense importance for the light it throws on Gould's working methods. This splendid volume presents a selection of his letters, together with detailed summaries of a further 3000 items. Some of Gould's original drawings of Australian birds and animals are published for the first time. |
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2.13 | H.M. Bark Endeavour Ray Parkin Book of the Year and Douglas Stewart Prize (non-fiction), 1998 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Also available in a new single volume edition This is the most thorough study yet undertaken of James Cook's Endeavour and her voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770. The text comes with a box of large-format plans depicting the ship's construction and equipment, and a composite log of the voyage includes an interpretative commentary and explanatory charts. |
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| 2.12 | Glimpses of Life in Victoria: by 'A Resident' Edited by Marguerite Hancock John Hunter Kerr emigrated to Port Phillip from Scotland in 1839. He took up land, became a successful pastoralist and a prominent citizen of Melbourne. The story of the Kerrs' life on the land and their fluctuating fortunes was long thought to have been written by Kerr. Recent research, however, suggests that much of the book was written by his wife. |
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2.11 | A History of the Port Phillip District: Victoria before Separation A. G. L. Shaw Also available in paperback This first general history of pre-goldrush Victoria in more than ninety years incorporates the advances in documentation and scholarship which have taken place since that time. The book is illustrated in colour with contemporary paintings, many of which will be unfamiliar to most readers. |
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2.10 | The Henty Journals: A Record of Farming, Whaling and Shipping in Portland Bay, 1834-1839 Edited by Lynnette Peel Winner of the 1996 Australian Society of Indexers Medal The Henty family emigrated from Sussex to Launceston in Van Diemen's Land in the early 1830s. Three of the brothers became pioneer settlers at Portland Bay on Australia's southern coast. Their journals, some of the most valuable items in the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria, have never before been published. |
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2.9 | Robin Boyd: A Life Geoffrey Serle Winner of the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, 1996 Also available in paperback Robin Boyd, gifted architect, writer, teacher and social commentator, was the leading Australian propagandist for the International Modern Movement in architecture and one of Australia's liveliest social critics. In this highly acclaimed and beautifully-illustrated book Geoffrey Serle writes predominantly about Boyd's work and public activities, allowing key selections from Boyd's writings to reveal the inner man. |
| 2.8 | Edwardian Melbourne in Picture Postcards Alexandra Bertram and Angus Trumble With a foreword by Barry Humphries No more striking pictorial legacy of Edwardian Melbourne can be found than in the beautifully coloured photographs reproduced on the picture postcards which were so popular at the turn of the century. This selection has been drawn from the rich collections of rare postcards preserved in the State Library of Victoria. The authors have added a vivid evocation of Edwardian life in Melbourne and its suburbs, and detailed descriptive commentaries on the locations depicted on the cards. |
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2.7 | Looking for La P'rouse: D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793 Frank Horner A persistent concern of the French nation from mid-1789 was the fate of one of its heroes, the Comte de La P'rouse, who had been overdue from the Pacific since 1788. A party led by Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux was sent out in 1791 to find him and to continue his scientific work. This is the fascinating a moving account of the voyage. |
| 2.6 | The Precarious Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook, American Loyalist, Servant of Empire Alan Frost With the assistance of Isabel Moutinho In August 1768 James Mario Matra, the son of an American loyalist, sailed with Cook to unknown parts of the world. The voyage, fraught with danger and uncertainty, marked the beginning of what was to be a precarious life. Alan Frost blends Matra's colourful correspondence with a biographical narrative to reveal the life and influence of this mysterious figure. |
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| 2.5 | E. Phillips Fox: His Life and Art Ruth Zubans This, the first full-scale study of the life and work of Emmanuel Phillips Fox, one of Australia's most gifted colourists and figure painters. It contains more than 70 reproductions in colour and 250 monochrome illustrations, including selections from his previously unpublished sketchbooks, selected letters by Fox and an extensive catalogue. |
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| 2.4 | The Orchids of Victoria Gary Backhouse and Jeffrey Jeanes Foreword by J. H. Willis The first comprehensive, up-to-date identification guide to Victoria's diverse and beautiful orchid flora. Includes information on distribution, habitat, taxonomy and conservation. High-quality colour photographs of all species are a major feature. |
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| 2.3 | The Voyage of HMS Herald: to Australia and the South-west Pacific 1852-1861 under the command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham Andrew David The authoritative account of one of the longest and most important surveying cruises of the golden age of world hydrography - the voyage of HMS Herald form 1852 to 1861 under the command of Henry Mangles Denham. |
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2.2 | Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1733-1782 Edited and translated by Edward Duyker and Per Tingbrand Foreword by Alan Frost Daniel Solander, Swedish naturalist, traveller, pioneer of the scientific study of natural history and Banks's colleague, was one of the first collectors in New Holland. Some 180 letters written either by or to him are reproduced here. |
| 2.1 | Henry Kendall: The Man and the Myths Michael Ackland First full-scale biography of this enigmatic Australian poet. Michael Ackland's sensitive and penetrating study reveals the a fascinatingly complex portrait of a robust, enigmatic and many-sided character whose life registered the full impact of family tragedies, religious crises, drunkenness and poverty. |
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