Australia: Literature and History

Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), our Australian CD contains the full text of 136 books about Australia and/or by Australians. It also includes the CIA World Factbook (an enormous collection of interlinked html files).

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Table of Contents:

Context of the contemporary world

The 2008 CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

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Australian Literature

An Anthology of Australian Verse Edited by Bertram Stevens

Old Bush Songs edited by A.B. Paterson

Louis Becke

• The Adventure of  Elizabeth Morey of New York
• The Americans in the South Seas (story)
• The Beginning of the Sea Story of Australia (story)
• The Brothers-in-Law (story)
• By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore
• The Call of the South
• Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories
• Concerning Bully Hayes
• The Ebbing of the Tide
• The Flemmings and Flash Harry of Savait (story)
• Foster's Letter of Marque (story)
• Gallant (story)
• In the Far North (story)
• John Frewen, South Sea Whaler
• Officer and Man (story)
• Pakaia (story)
• Pig-Headed Sailor Men
• Ridan the Devil and Other Stories
• Sarreo (story)
• Suani (story)
• The South Seaman
• The Strange Adventure of James Shevinton
• The Tapu of Banderah (story)
• Tessa
• The Trader's Wife

Guy Boothby

• A Bid for Fortune

Mary Grant Bruce

• Back to Billabong
• A Little Bush Maid

Edward Dyson

• The Missing Link

E.L. Haverfield

• Queensland Cousins

G.A. Henty

• A Final Reckoning: a Tale of Bush Life in Australia

Edith Howes

• Wonderwings and Other Fairy Stories

John Conroy Hutcheson

• The Wreck of the Nancy Bell

Adam Lindsay Gordon poems, including:

• Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
• Bush Ballads & Galloping Rhymes
• Miscellaneous Poems
• Ashtaroth:  A Dramatic Lyric

Henry Kendall

• Poems

W.H.G. Kingston

• Adventures in Australia
• The Gilpins

Henry Lawson

• Children of the Bush
• In the Days When the World Was Wide (poems)
• Joe Wilson and His Mates (poems)
• On the Track (poems)
• Over the Slip Rails, stories including:
• The Shanty-Keeper's Wife
• A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper
• An Incident at Stiffner's
• The Hero of Redclay
• The Darling River
• A Case for the Oracle
• A Daughter of Maoriland
• New Year's Night
• Black Joe
• They Wait on the Wharf in Black
• Seeing the Last of You
• Two Boys at Grinder Brothers'
• The Selector's Daughter
• Mitchell on the "Sex" and Other "Problems"
• The Master's Mistake
• The Story of the Oracle
• The Rising of the Court
• While the Billy Boils

Katharine Mansfield

• The Garden Party
• In a German Pension: a Story of Early Days in Australia

John Miller

• The Workingman's Paradise

Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson

• The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses
• An Outback Marriage
• Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses
• Saltbush Bill and Other Verses
• Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

Henry Richardson

• Australia Felix
• The Getting of Wisdom
• Maurice Guest

Steel Rudd (pseudonum for Arthur Hoey Davis)

• On Our Selection (story of Australian pioneers)

Lilian Turner

• An Australian Lassie

J.M. Walsh

• The Lost Valley

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Australian History

• An Address to the Inhabitants Of The Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island in 1792 by Richard Johnson (short)
• An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by David Collins
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Art of Living in Australia by P.E. Muskett
• Australia Twice Traversed. The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia from 1872 to 1876 by

Ernest Giles
• An Australian in china by George Ernest Morrison
• Australian Legendary Tales, Folk Lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies, collected by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker
• Australian Search Party by Charles Henry Eden
• The Book of the Bush by George Dunderdale
• The Bushman: Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor
• Discoveries in Australia 1837-1843 [voyage of the Beagle, ship made famous by Darwin] by J. Jort Stokes
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Early Australian Voyages by John Pinkerton
• The Euahlayi Tribe--A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker
• The Expedition to Botany Bay by Watkin Tench
• Exploration in Australia by John Forrest, 1875
• Exporations in Australia 1858-1862 by John McDouall Stuart
• Explorers of Australia by Ernest Favenc, 1908
• The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea by George Collingudge de Tourey
• A General History and Collection of Voyages, volume 15, by Robert Kerr
• The Gundungurra Language by R.H. Mathews
• Gurre Kamilaroi or Kamilaroi Sayings by William Ridley
• An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jacson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter, 1793
• History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenac
• Journal of Landsborough's Expedition
• Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 1848 by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855)
• Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
• Journals of Australian Exportaion by Augustus Charles Gregory
• Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia 1840-41 by John Edward Eyre
• Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 1817-18
• Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia 1837, 1838, 1839 by George Grey
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Kinship Organisation and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Thomas
• A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53, by Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacy
• The Land of the Kangaroo by Thomas Knox
• Letters from France by E.W. Bean
• McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
• Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine by Frederick Byerley
• Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical Coasts of Australia 1818-1822 by Captain Phillip King
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery, 1899
• Over the Top with the Third Australian Division by G.P. Curtiss
• Over There with the Australians by Captain R. Hugh Knyvett
• The Part Borne by the Dutch int eh Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by J.E. Heeres
• Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth
• The Present Picture of New South Wales by D.D. Mann, 1811
• The Romance of a Pro-Consul by James Milne
• The Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench
• A Source Book of Austalian History, compiled by Gwendolen Swinburne, 1919
• Successful Exploration Thropugh the Interior of Australia by Willliam John Wills
• Tales About America and Australia by Peter Paley
• Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia by Major T.L. Mitchell
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Tropic Days (1918) by E.J. Banfield
• Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia During the Years 1828-1831 by Charles Stuart

Volume 1

Volume 2

• A Voyage to Terra Australis 1801-1803 by Matthew Flinders
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• A Voyage to New Holland in the Year 1699 by Captain William Dampier
• A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland in the Year 1699
• The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, 1789, by Captain Hunter et al.
• Wheat Growing in Australia, 1915
• The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R.H. Mathews

New Zealand

• Five Years in New Zealand 1859-1864
• Hinemoa (in Maori and English) by H. J. Fletcher
• Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster, 1981
• John Rutherford: the White Chief, a story of adventure in New Zealand edited by James Drummond
• Mental Defectives and Serial Offenders
• A Narrative of Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 [from the Beagle, ship made famous by Darwin] by Augustus Earle
• Piccaninnies by Isabel Maud Peacocke
• Station Life in New Zealand by Lady Banks
• Venereal Diseases in New Zealand