Appealing and accessible nonfiction perfect for school projects.
Includes large-format photographs and dramatic stories, maps, fact
boxes, timelines, authentic photographs and other primary source
materials to bring history to life.
Outlaw Son
The
most famous, or infamous, of Australia s bushrangers was Ned Kelly. But
what was Australia like when Ned was growing up? How did the events of
young Ned's life, his family and his friends, shape the man who was to
become an Australian icon?
Life on the Goldfields
People
travelled from all over the world to seek their fortune on the
Australian goldfields. But when they got to Australia, they found life
was tough. How did these early emigrants make a life for themselves in
this harsh new place? Focusing on the Victorian diggings, Life on the Goldfields shows how these improvised communities became town and cities.
Child Convicts
At
the age of seven, children in eighteenth-century Britain were tried in
court like adults. Some as young as nine were transported to the
colonies. Their names may not be familiar, but one of these child
convicts would become the first person hanged in Australia, another
would be celebrated on our twenty-dollar note and a third would count a
future prime minister as a descendant. Their story is one of survival.
Their story is one of nation-building. Their story is the story of
Australia.