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Tracing the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and after, its publication: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils from 1896, Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of pared-back bush realism, as he struggled to forge a career writing for newspapers.

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This book tells a once secret and little known story of how the Australian government accepted the advice of a zoologist and seconded the country's leading artists and designers to deploy optical tricks and illusions to protect the nation.

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Take the passage through the cellar door, as the pages of this anthology lead you down dark steps into a room lit up with ideas, words and wonder. Skip across continents, see colour anew, dress in the costumes of loved ones or fall through the Earth into a world below...

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Tells stories about the unsafe, damp and cramped living conditions at sea endured by emigrants and sailors alike. It highlights the need to improve the desperate conditions and the need for a faster route for ships to travel. There is also a whaling story that paints a vivid picture of a whale chase in the hazardous waters south of Hobart.

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This volume contains stories on the experiences of convicts. Beginning with court processes and sentencing in Britain, the stories provide an insight into the conditions of prisoners on board ships to Australia and in prisons, and the range of treatments received by convicts until their conditional or final pardon.

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Contains stories of the triumphs and failures associated with opening up new country in the Australian bush. There are descriptions of cattle drives, bullock wagons, and poignant stories of lost settlers and children so often found through the uncanny abilities of Aboriginal trackers.

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The stories in this volume examine important questions faced by prospective immigrants: how to prepare; what to take to Australia; how to recognise a suitable vessel to sail on; who and where to go for advice before embarking on this life-changing adventure.

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Cleanliness is Next to Godliness is the first scholarly work that presents the archaeology of Victorian social conventions as evidence of something more than respectability manifested as socio-economic status, manners and etiquette.

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Drawing on examples of worldwide best practice urban planning, Leslie A. Stein uses an evidence-based approach and a consideration of underlying ideologies to find the universal patterns, solutions and responses to common urban planning problems.

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Ecologies of Invention is the first collection of essays that brings together writers and scholars of international standing from the University of Sydney and beyond to examine assumptions underlying notions of inventiveness.

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19th-century menageries reflected a human capacity for fighting, aggression and dominance over nature, and echoed a cultural fascination with war and colonial expansion. Their legacy embedded in society a belief in the human right to exploit other animal species a belief yet to be defeated.

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The fifth edition Flora of the Sydney Region is the definitive technical guide to the identification of wild plants in one of the world's botanical heartlands. The Flora covers an area of coastal NSW.

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These ten essaysexamine the role of gardens and gardening in the settlement of New South Wales and in growing a colony and a state. They explore the significance of gardens for the health of the colony, for its economy, for the construction of social order and moral worth.

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Drilling down through layers of theory, policy and politics, Amanda Walsh surveys how globalisation has played out in regional Australia.