Keuzelijst
Australië
Hieronder
een keuze uit mijn collectie boeken over Australie. De beschrijvingen
zijn vooral afkomstig van amazon.com.
Triumph
of the nomads: A
history of ancient Australia
Blainey, Geoffrey
Een belangrijk
boek over de vraag waarom de inheemse bevolking van Australie
het zolang volgehouden heeft in barre omstandigheden.
Jack
Maggs
Carey, Peter
Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal,
has returned from Australia in secret and at great risk. What
does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested
in the comings and goings at a plush town-house in Great Queen
Street?
Oscar
and Lucinda
Carey, Peter
Set
on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this
novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that
relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford
seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination
for glass. (zie ook recensie)
The
Tax Inspector
The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department
of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that
Tax Inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of
the family business.
True
History of the Kelly Gang
In this book Peter Carey returns to the harsh, brutal world of
Australian history, so brilliantly evoked in earlier novels such
as Illywhacker and Oscar and Lucinda. Set in
the desolate settler communities north of Melbourne in the late
19th century, the novel is told in the form of a journal, written
by the famous outlaw and "bushranger" Ned Kelly, to
a daughter he will never see.
Songlines
Chatwin, Bruce
Chatwin
explores the area around Alice Springs, in central Australia,
where he ponders the source and meaning of nomadism, the origins
of human violence and the emergence of mankind amid arid conditions.
Searching for "Songlines"the invisible pathways along
which aboriginal Australians travel to perform their central cultural
activitiesChatwin is accompanied by Arkady Volchok, a native Australian
and tireless bushwalker who is helping the aboriginals.
Sean
& David's Long Drive
Condon, Sean
Sean and David are young Australians who have rarely strayed beyond
the city limits. One day they set out to discover their homeland
and end up driving across half the continent. Highlights include
the weekly Hair Wax Report and a memorable Croc Spotting with
Stew adventure. Condon has written a hilarious, offbeat road book
that mixes sharp insights with deadpan humor and outright lies.
Dreamings
Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art from the Western Desert
(Art and Design)
Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie
Tracks
Davidson, Robyn
The account of Robyn Davidson's epic journey across 1,700 miles
of Australian desert and bush with four camels and a dog.
Gould's
Book of Fish
Flanagan, Richard
With a title such as Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan's
Commonwealth Prize-winning third novel, expect something wonderfully
slippery and self-conscious from one of the finest talents to
have emerged from Australia since Peter Carey. Flanagan has written
a history of a lost colonial voice--that of William Buelow Gould,
a "pathetick forger, this drunkard trying his best to be
on the make" who in the 1820s was sentenced to hard labour
on the brutal penal colony of Sarah Island, (zie
recensie)
The
Birth of Sydney
Flannery, Tim
A narrative history of one of the world's great cities traces
the development of Sydney, Australia, from its eighteenth-century
origins as a remote penal colony of the British Empire to its
role as the host of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, documenting
the colorful personalities, events.
The Explorers
The
conquest and settlement of Australia proves just as exciting as
the conquest and settlement of North America, as readers will
behold in this engrossing anthology prepared by Flannery, the
director of the South Australia Museum. He has gathered 67 excerpts
from a variety of accounts of Australian exploration, each one
offering "the experience of being a fly on the wall at exemplary
moments in Australian history" and each one, with a single
exception, written by an eyewitness.
The
fringe dwellers
Gare, N.
Persoonlijk en aangrijpend verhaal van een Aboriginal vrouw.
The
Sooterkin
Gilling, Tom
On July 14, 1821, on a small island off the coast of Australia,
Sarah Dyer gives birth to a "thing the size of a weasel,
wet and slippery and covered in fur." Rumor spreads that
the creature is a sooterkin--"a monstrous animal, with a
hooked snout, fiery, sparkling eyes, a long neck and the stump
of a tail"--but closer inspection reveals the newborn as
none other than a seal pup, whom Sarah names Arthur.
Rites
of Passage
Golding, William
Verslag
van een avontuurlijke overtocht naar Australie in de 19e eeuw.
De droomtijd
Gulpilil
Aboriginal
verhalen.
We of the Never Never
Gunn, Jeannie
Het verhaal van een koloniste, begin 20e eeuw.
The
Last Magician
Hospital, Janette Turner
Four people, scattered by time and geography, are pulled back
into close proximity in midlife, unable to escape the childhood
trauma that binds them. This is a visionary novel about the private
terrors and luminous hopes within the secrets we collude in keeping.
The Fatal Shore
Hughes, Robert
This book reveals the full extent of Australia's role as the concentration
camp of Georgian England, and in doing so has set new standards
in the writing of narrative history
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Keneally, Thomas
When
Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman the backlash from both
Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic
events. As Jimmie tries to survive between two cultures, tensions
build reaching a head when the Newbys, Jimmie's white employers,
try to break up his marriage. The Newby women are murdered and
Jimmie flees, pursued by police and vigilantes.
Dont
take your love to town
Langford, Ruby
Autobiografie
van een aboriginal vrouw.
top
Harland's
Half-acre
Malouf, David
Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life
is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for
his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through
a patch of land, his family's past.
Remembering
Babylon
Lardil:
Keepers of the Dreamtime
McKnight,
David
A simple, yet substantive introduction to the unique heritage
and wisdom of the Aborigines of Australia. This exquisitely illustrated
volume describes the subtle and complex culture, beliefs and customs
of the Lardil, hunter-gatherers of the Wellesley Islands off the
northern coast of Queensland.
Cooper's Creek
Moorehead, Alan
The classic account of the Burke and Wills expedition across Australia
and the fated drama that took place on Cooper's Creek in the remote
interior of the continent in 1861.
My Place
Morgan, Sally
Growing up in Perth, Australia, in an impoverished, but lively
and chaotic household dominated by her mother and grandmother,
Morgan was 15 before she realized that she and her four siblings
were of mixed Aboriginal descent. In this autobiography, she describes
her efforts to identify with and record her family heritage.
(zie
ook mijn recensie)
Wanamurraganya:
The story of Jack McPhee
Yorro
Yorro
Mowaljarlai, David
The
Indigenous Literature of Australia: Milli Milli Wangka
Narogin, Mudrooroo
Survey of Australian literature.
Karijini
Mirlimirli: Aboriginal Histories from the Pilbara
Olive Noel (ed)
Thirty-nine separate narratives by and about the Karijini Aborigines
of Australia cover the period from the 1920's to the present day
and describe the culture before the coming of the white man. They
speak of the arrival of the invaders, the following clash and
intermingling, and the pressing issues
Pobby and Dingan
Rice, Ben
The year's most impressive debut' The Times '...undeniably rich:
a tale woven around the importance of faith, whether in imaginary
friends or undiscovered treasures, and the strength of family'
De rode Kangoeroe
Rijn, Frank van
Reisverhaal van bekende fietsende Nederlander.
Benang: From the Heart
Scott, Kim
Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult
point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently
successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts
to isolate and breed the 'first whiteman born', he wants to be
a failure.(zie ook mijn recensie)
Lonely
Planet Aboriginal Australia & the Torres Strait
Islands
Singh, Sarina
Indigenous cultures are rich and varied and non-indigenous people
often have a skewed impression of Australia's First Nations. "Aboriginal
Australia & the Torres Strait Islands" is dedicated to
setting straight the cliches, by truly taking a close look at
the dialect, cultures and traditions of this ancient society.
Zuiderkruis
Slot,Pauline
Niet echt geslaagde roman over de vriendschap tussen 2 vrouwen.
Land
van de Wilde Honing
Tropenmuseum
Prachtig geillustreerd jeugdboek.
A
Fringe of Leaves
White, Patrick
Returning to England in 1840, the "Bristol Maid" is
shipwrecked on the Queensland Coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken
prisoner by a tribe of Aborigines. In the course of her escape,
she is torn by loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer,
to her own and to her adoptive class.
The Vivisector
Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he
paints. The people who court him are, above all, the victims of
his art, and he dissects their weaknesses with cruel precision.
The Australian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
Voss
Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret
passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they
have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming,
obsessive feelings for each other. (zie ook mijn recensie)
Cloudstreet
Winton, Tim
From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city
and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint
called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch.
For twenty years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until
the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.
Tim Winton's funny, sprawling saga is an epic novel of love and
acceptance. Winner of the Miles Franklin and NBC Awards in Australia,
Cloudstreet is a celebration of people, places and rhythms which
has fuelled imaginations world-wide.(zie ook mijn recensie)
Shallows
Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town
on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing
defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town
depends on their carcasses. This is the story of the people in
a small town who's lives always depended on the arrival of the
wales. But things change, and with it people change..
Dirt
Music
(zie mijn
recensie)
Tim
Winton is een van mijn favoriete schrijvers!
Karan
Wongar, B.
Het blijkt dat deze schrijver zelf geen Aboriginal is (bron: Cambridge
companion to Australian literature) maar een immigrant is
van Bulgaarse afkomst. Hij heeft zichzelf dus een identiteit aangemeten.
Gezegd moet dat dit zeer controversieel is binnen Aboriginal schrijverskringen.
Denk aan Marlo Morgan die rijk is geworden met haar boek Australië
op blote voeten en zo over de rug van de inheemse bevolking daar
flink profijt van heeft getrokken. Op zijn minst afkeurenswaardig
en respectloos. Wongar's boeken gaan wel over belangrijke onderwerpen
zoals de uraniummijnen en de ellende die deze opleveren voor de
bevolking.
The Track to Bralgu
Walg: A Novel of Australia
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