Titres dans Australie et Océanie

"THIS WEEK'S HOTTEST NEW RELEASES: Murder befouls the outback... [A] gripping work of true crime." —USA TODAY Return to Uluru explores a cold case that strikes at the heart of white supremacy—the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and...

For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of the Australian continent. Between 1606 and 1688, while the British had their hands full with the Gunpowder Plot and the English Civil War, it was highly skilled Dutch seafarers who discovered and mapped the majority of the vast, unknown waters and land masses in the Indian and Southern Oceans.

'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the...

Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies and relentless rain, Captain Musgrave inspires his men to take action.

絶海の孤島に残された巨大なモアイ像は、単なる神秘的な遺物ではなく、環境変動や社会の激動という過酷な試練を生き抜いた人々の壮大な歴史ドラマそのものです。知的な刺激を求める通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックス...

何万年もの間、広大な大地と結びついてきた世界最古の先住民文化と、海を越えて押し寄せた近代ヨーロッパ文明はいかにして衝突し、共生への道を切り拓いたのか、壮大なオーストラリアの歴史を約二時間で体感できま...

古代マオリの壮大な航海から西洋文明との激しい交錯、そして現代の多文化社会へと至る、太平洋の結節点として紡がれた歴史を解き明かす、知的好奇心を刺激する物語です。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスしたい休日に、...

Erlebe im historischen Sachbuch den epischen Konflikt zwischen uralter indigener Kultur und europäischer Kolonialmacht. Diese nachdenklich stimmende und bildgewaltige Erzählung ist ideal, um beim täglichen Pendeln oder auf Reisen tief in die bewegte Historie des fünften Kontinents...

Erlebe eine archäologische Zeitreise und lüfte das historische Geheimnis der monumentalen Moai-Statuen. Perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln oder entspannte Abende, entführt dich dieses fesselnde Sachbuch an den isoliertesten Ort der Welt. Genieße die geheimnisvolle Atmosphäre Polynesiens...

Plongez dans une épopée historique fascinante et découvrez comment les premiers marins du Pacifique ont dompté l'océan. Parfait pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif retrace avec une grande rigueur scientifique l'évolution des techniques nautiques face à l'immensité de...

Plongez dans l'histoire archéologique des statues de Rapa Nui pour décrypter les secrets d'une civilisation insulaire. Lors de vos trajets quotidiens, laissez-vous transporter par cette exploration captivante qui retrace l'épopée d'une société polynésienne face aux défis extrêmes de son...

Erlebe in diesem packenden Geschichts-Hörbuch, wie meisterhafte Seefahrer den riesigen Pazifik ohne Kompass bezwangen. Perfekt für den täglichen Arbeitsweg oder entspannte Abende, entführt dich diese abenteuerliche Erzählung in die grenzenlose Weite des Ozeans. Tauche tief in eine epische...

One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the prosecutor who conducted it. In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in northern New South Wales...

A remarkable new account of Australia's colonial beginnings This fascinating book sets aside the cliches of Australian history and asks us to look again. What really happened when exiled criminals made a home in an occupied and defended country? How were they changed by this new world? What can...

'If you want to bet on numbers, go to a casino. If you want theatre, go to the races.' - Les Carlyon All his life, Andrew Rule has watched racing's heroes and villains, dreamers and schemers. In Chance, he distils the daring, the desperation and danger of the track, peeling back some of racing's...

Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the 20th century and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia.

The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in remote New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world, and even Michael's powerful, influential family, guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story.

This book invites you to step into the magical world of Aboriginal Dreamtime and to share in the world's oldest living culture - its ancient knowledge and spiritual wisdom. Inside are Dreamtime concepts that everyone can understand. Come on a journey with Aboriginal elder Aunty Munya as she guides you in discovering your purpose in life and how to walk in the footsteps of our ancestors. Learn what it means to truly belong and be family to everyone and everything.

This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to...

A few years ago Anna Clark saw a series of paintings on a sandstone cliff face in the Northern Territory. There were characteristic crosshatched images of fat barramundi and turtles, as well as sprayed handprints and several human figures with spears. Next to them was a long gun, painted with white ochre, an unmistakable image of the colonisers. Was this an Indigenous rendering of contact? A work of history?