Australia: Literature And History

by Adam Gordon, Henry Lawson

This CD ROM contains the full text of 27 books about Australia and/or by Australians (14 history and 13 literature).

Literature

An Anthology of Australian Verse Edited by Bertram Stevens

Adam Lindsay Gordon -- Poems (including: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift, Bush Ballads & Galloping Rhymes, Miscellaneous Poems, Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric,

Henry Kendall -- Poems,

Henry Lawson -- In the Days When the World Was Wide (poems), Joe Wilson and His Mates (poems), On the Track (poems), Over the Slip Rails, stories (including:

The Shanty-Keeper's Wife, A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper, An Incident at Stiffner's, The Hero of Redclay,

The Darling River, A Case for the Oracle, A Daughter of Maoriland, New Year's Night, Black Joe, They Wait on the Wharf in Black, Seeing the Last of You, Two Boys at Grinder Brothers', The Selector's Daughter, Mitchell on the "Sex" and Other "Problems", The Master's Mistake, The Story of the Oracle)

Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson -- The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses, Saltbush Bill and Other Verses, Three Elephant Power and Other Stories,

Henry Richardson -- Australia Felix,

Steel Rudd (pseudonym for Arthur Hoey Davis)-- On Our Selection (story of Australian pioneers)

History

An Address to the Inhabitants Of The Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island in 1792 by Richard Johnson (short)

The Art of Living in Australia by P.E. Muskett

Australia Twice Traversed. The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia from 1872 to 1876 by

Ernest Giles,

Australian Legendary Tales, Folk Lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies, collected by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker,

Australian Search Party by Charles Henry Eden,

Early Australian Voyages by John Pinkerton,

The Euahlayi Tribe--A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker,

The Expedition to Botany Bay by Watkin Tench,

Journal of an Overland Expdition in Australia 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt,

A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53, by Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacy,

Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine by Frederick Byerley,

The Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench,

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia During the Years 1828-1831 by Charles Sturt (two volumes)