This is the first of many books we will be putting online over the next few weeks and months. Please check back often to see what we have added.
A Source Book of Australian History
Provides general knowledge of the subject, and illustrates those vivid details which arrest the attention and enable the researcher to visualize past events.
Australian Legendary Tales
Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies
Convicts to New South Wales, 1787
Lists name, Where, Convicted, Date and Years, about 800 names
The Euahlayi Tribe, A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
A contribution to the study of the manners, customs, beliefs, and legends of the Aborigines of Australia.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, 1840
Upon the close of the Expeditions, and when contemplating an immediate return to England, he was invited by the Governor of the Colony to remain, and undertake the task of re-establishing peace and amicable relations with the numerous native tribes of the Murray River, and its neighbourhood
Early Australian Voyages
The discoveries of Australia date only from the beginning of the seventeenth. The discoveries of the Dutch were little known in England before the time of Dampier's voyage, at the close of the seventeenth century, with which this volume ends.
The Present Picture of New South Wales, 1811
The discovery of the eastern coast of New Holland was the result of that laudable and beneficial spirit of enterprise and investigation, which conferred on the name of Captain Cook so just a claim to posthumous gratitude and immortal renown.
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