Collection: Biography

For the first time in one volume, here are four of the most influential works of Charles Darwin, reprinted in their entirety, each illuminated by commentary from eminent scientist James D. Watson. Included are On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important scientific work of the nineteenth...

Subject: An air of mystery surrounded Marcel Caux - one of the nation's last surviving veterans of WWI - prior to his death in 2004. He was unknown to most Australians until four years ago, when he suddenly emerged as a veteran of WWI. Silver sorts through official records, photos, and interviews...

Lively and entertaining, From Gulf the Gulf to God Knows Where - Living in Australia's Outback tells the life stories of fourteen men and women who have lived and worked in some of the harshest country in Australia's north. Noted oral historian Marion Houldsworth, who spent much of her own life i...

the true story of the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history As a barely literate youth of thirteen, Sidney Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history, acquiring a le...

"Childhood memories of growing up on a cane farm in the 1960's in Far North Queensland"--Provided by publisher.