This is a tiger town, a place at the bottom of the world where God turns a blind eye to pillage and plunder.' Van Diemen's Land was an island of stark contrasts; a harsh penal colony, an English idyll for its landed gentry,...
Tasmania
- Auteur:Nunn, JudySommaire:
- Auteur:Perry, KyleSommaire:
If you encounter the Black Wind while out there at sea, all you can do is race back to shore. There's no predicting it, no sailing it, no living with it. And if you're a Dempsey, it can play tricks on your mind... On the Tasman...
- Auteur:Pirk, WendySommaire:
What comes from the land down under? mania, that's Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania! There are so many unique species of animals, insects and plants on these islands! You will be amazed!
- Auteur:Freeman, KimberleySommaire:
Un rendez-vous inoubliable avec deux femmes inspirantes! En 1929, Beattie Blaxland a de grands rêves: elle régnera sur un empire de mode, d’étoffes et de richesses et pourra enfin oublier ses origines misérables. Une grossesse inopinée...
- Auteur:Flanagan, RichardSommaire:
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning....
- Auteur:Ford, Catt, Kennedy, SeanSommaire:
Stodgy British archivist Henry Percival-Smythe slaves away in the dusty basement of Ealing College in 1934, the only bright spot in his life is his obsession with a strange Australian mammal, the thylacine. It has been hunted to the...
- Auteur:Silverthorne, JudithSommaire:
It’s 1842. 14-year-old Jennie Lawrence has been found guilty of stealing, and finds herself aboard one of the few women-only convict ships destined for Australia.
Jennie had been desperate – and, as she gets to know the other...