australia

Takes readers on a tour of Australia, describing its landscape, climate, peoples, wildlife, and major cities and sights. Also includes teaching ideas and activities.

James and his family visit Broome, Australia, a remote coastal town where they go fishing, discover dinosaur footprints, and visit a pearling museum.

Presents region-by-region information for travelers to Australia, including details on its history, landscape, sites to see, lodging, and restaurants, and provides color photos, maps, and cutaways throughout.

Explores the story of Australia from the earliest times, through at least 50,000 years of diverse Aboriginal societies to its exploration by Asian and European travelers, and right up to the present day.

Text originally published in "National Geographic" discusses the geography, history, and people of the continent of Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Surveys the geography, history, natural resources, peoples and cultures, economy and government of the sixth-biggest country in the world.

The lives of three Australian children are cruelly affected when a bushfire known as the February Dragon sweeps across the countryside.

A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the north.

Seventeen-year-old Mannie Clarkeson, a girl living in small-town Australia, leaves home in the middle of the night adorned in her mother's red silk evening gown and on a bicycle aimed toward Melbourne, but while she is looking to start a new life there are questions that need to be answered.

In her final year of high school in 1989, Australian teenager Rachel has her world turned upside down when the most popular--and disturbed--boy in school comes to live with her family for a semester.