Australasian & Pacific History

The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover entitled Darkest Hour, which chron...

When Captain Samuel Wallis became the first European to land at Tahiti in June 1767, he left not only a British flag on shore but also three guinea...

In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect ar...

The Victoria Cross is the highest award given to members of the Commonwealth military forces for acts of extreme bravery in battle. There is no gre...

William Cooper''s passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights, and his heroic fight for them ...

Mata Austronesia is a collection of illustrated stories told by Austronesians past and presentan (ethno)graphic novel. Mata, the word for eye in nu...

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal,...