NORTHERN TERRITORY BOOKS

What is a Disaster? Addresses the most basic question in the field: that of defining the phenomenon of study. For theoretical advancement, it is im...

This publication is part of a broader research project that continues to throw light principally on the migration, settlement and adaptation of Gre...

Why do Aboriginal people die up to twenty years younger than their white counterparts? What will it take to 'close the gap'? Tess Lea takes a fresh...

The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day - courage, mates...

Between 1870 and 1920, as many as 2,000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Ca...

The main purpose of this book is to give Australian and other readers an unflinching sense of the geo-strategic significance of Darwin and what it ...

Bush nurse and wife at Batchelor, living area for Rum Jungle Mine By Janie Mason, RN Msc University Fellow & Nursing Museum Curator Charles Dar...

In 1870 a colonial government, on the brink of collapse, made an audacious move. South Australia's squabbling politicians briefly put aside their d...

 Tennant Creek and Australia's Unresolved PastThe tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a...

 When many voices are joined together, with courage, change can happen. In 1966, more than two hundred courageous Aboriginal people walked off the ...

Rescuing endangered species, piloting choppers and coming nose-to-snout with some of Australia's deadliest creatures is all in a day's work for Mat...

Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land manage...

You have to wait 75 years to see Halley's Comet again. And ten years to see (and smell) the giant corpse flower bloom. But for the second time in l...

This is the story of the birth of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory.

Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the govern...

We used to sit by the river and watch the sun setting behind the mountains, sometimes, and say what a marvellous place it would be to come for a ho...