We like to think that we live in an age of reason and rationality, that uncertainty and the unkno...

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 17...

A historical detective story for lovers of Colonial Australian history. With deftness and superb ...

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an imp...

This book is an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mytholog...

A powerful account of how coerced migration built the British Empire In the early seventeenth cen...

This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by pr...

This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by pr...

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an imp...

A comprehensive collection of Australian rhyming slang, in all its fascinating (and bawdy) glory....