Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach?uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation?renders his books devastating and unforgettable. Now, for the first time, Lindqvist's most beloved wo…
"The Dead Do Not Die includes the full unabridged text of 'Exterminate All the Brutes', called 'a book of stunning range and near genius' by David Levering Lewis. In this work, Lindqvist uses Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a point of departure for a haunting tour through t…
The author writes on race, colonialism, and genocide, uniting travelogues with acts of historical excavation. This book includes the full unabridged text of "Exterminate All the Brutes," as well as Terra Nullius.
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, t…
Provides a thorough overview of Australian languages including language endangerment, language contact and language loss. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other English varieties are also discussed.
Provides a thorough overview of Australian languages including language endangerment, language contact and language loss. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other English varieties are also discussed.
Based on the major ABC TV series of the same name, First Footprints tells the extraordinary story of the Aboriginal people of Australia. How they made their way out of Africa 60,000 years ago, and how they survived across this vast continent, from the harsh deserts of the inland…
Based on the major ABC TV series of the same name, First Footprints tells the extraordinary story of the Aboriginal people of Australia. How they made their way out of Africa 60,000 years ago, and how they survived across this vast continent, from the harsh deserts of the inland…
First Footprints tells the extraordinary story of the Aboriginal people of Australia. How they made their way out of Africa 60,000 years ago, and how they survived across this vast continent, from the harsh deserts of the inland to the glaciers of southern Tasmania. With photos …
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the plains and enormous crocodiles, giant snakes and goannas nestled in the estuarie…
It is 1860 in Australia. An Aboriginal laborer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman A.S. Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man's skul…
In 1860 an aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is hanged in New South Wales, Australia. In the aftermath of the execution a Scotsman, A .S. Hamilton, will take bizarre steps to exhume the young man's skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phren…
By 1888, after 100 years of colonisation, it is estimated that 95% of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander population had ‘disappeared’. Along with starvation, disease, dispossession and grief, a further contributing factor to this decline was murder. Massacres o…
By 1888, after 100 years of colonisation, it is estimated that 95% of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander population had ‘disappeared’. Along with starvation, disease, dispossession and grief, a further contributing factor to this decline was murder. Massacres o…
My late twenties have felt like a series of slow-motion epiphanies, each one sneaking up before slapping me in my newly acquired jowls. Everything I said I'd do 'by the time I'm thirty' as a glassy-eyed graduate is now in the 'by the time I'm forty' box.Much has been made of del…
