People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migratin

This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.

"I used to begin a course on Australian economic history in the accepted manner with the European explorations of the eighteenth century until one day the archa

Britain formally colonised Van Diemen’s Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to th

The haunting story of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman. Winner of the National Biography Award 2021 Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Non-fiction