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• Australian literature

• Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by G. Robertson and Co., ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Changing the Victorian Subject (c2014), ed. by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Says, and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Francis Adams (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #24; 1996), by Meg Tasker (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation from "The Bulletin" (1880-1901) (Sydney: Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1902) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 (15th anniversity edition; Canberra: ANU E Press, c2004), by Adam Shoemaker (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU Press)

• Tilting at Windmills: The Literary Magazine in Australia, 1968-2012 (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), by Phillip Edmonds (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Gegenschein, by Eric Lindsay (partial serial archives)

• Poetry in Australia, 1923 (Sidney: Vision Press, 1923), contrib. by Norman Lindsay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Songs of a Sunlit Land (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1908), by James Alexander Kenneth Mackay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Navigating the Kingdom of Night (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2013), by Amy T. Matthews (multiple formats with commentary at Adelaide)

• Tilting at Windmills: The Literary Magazine in Australia, 1968-2012 (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), by Phillip Edmonds (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 (15th anniversity edition; Canberra: ANU E Press, c2004), by Adam Shoemaker (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU Press)

• Literature in New South Wales (Sydney: T. Richards, 1866), by G. B. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adelaide: A Literary City (c2013), ed. by Philip Butterss (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Bibliography of South Australia (Adelaide: E. Spiller, government printer, 1886), by Thomas Gill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Fiction Fields of Australia (original magazine version, 1856), by Frederick Sinnett (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• The Lone Hand (full serial archives)
• The Bulletin (Australian periodical founded 1880) (partial serial archives)

• The Lone Hand (full serial archives)

• The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by Louis de Rougemont (Gutenberg text)

• Old Tales of a Young Country (1871), by Marcus Clarke (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• The Mentor (Australian science fiction fanzine, and Watt's Out review supplement; 1991-2006), ed. by Ron Clarke (partial serial archives)

• An Anthology of Australian Verse, ed. by Bertram Stevens (Gutenberg text)
• The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), ed. by Walter Murdoch
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Bay and Padie Book: Kiddie Songs (1917), by Furnley Maurice, illust. by Vera Hamilton and Cyril Dobbs (page images at National Library of Australia)
• The Animals Noah Forgot, by A. B. Paterson (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• Night Fall in the Ti-Tree (Melbourne: Sign of the Rabbit, 1905), by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague (page images at childrenslibrary.org)

• Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets, by John E. Tranter (PDF at johntranter.com)

• A Chant of Doom and Other Verses, by Christopher John Brennan (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• Oz (satirical, countercultural Australian magazine published in the 1960s) (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Australia: Our Neighbor "Down Under" (1944), by Herbert Heaton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pocket Guide to Australia (ca. 1942), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • black and white scan: PDF in Australia
• Australia Unlimited (Melbourne: G. Robertson and Co., ca. 1918), by E. J. Brady (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oztralia, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)
• The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields (London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1852), by Samuel Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields (second edition; London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1853), by Samuel Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oceania: A Supplementary Geography (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by James Franklin Chamberlain and Arthur Henry Chamberlain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Glimpses of the Australian Colonies and New Zealand (Auckland: Brett Printing and Pub. Co., 1903), by W. J. Barry (page images in New Zealand)

• The Australian Achievement: From Bondage to Freedom (1996), by L. J. M. Cooray (HTML at ourcivilisation.com)

• In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia Through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855 (2011), by Jessie Mitchell (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Australia's Economy in its International Context: The Joseph Fisher Lectures (the first 53 in 2 volumes; 2009), ed. by Kym Anderson (PDF files with commentary at Adelaide)

• Potential Benefits of an Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement: Key Issues and Options (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2018), ed. by Jane Drake-Brockman and Patrick A. Messerlin (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• ANZUS and the Early Cold War: Strategy and Diplomacy Between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945-1956 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Andrew Kelly (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788; published 1978), by George B. Worgan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Reaching for the Top in the Land Down Under (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2001), ed. by Marc Maurer (illustrated HTML at nfb.org)
• The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury, 1875 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Anthony Trollope, ed. by Bradford Allen Booth (HTML at UC Press)
• Account of a Voyage Around the World (in English and Welsh; Caernarvon, Wales: H. Humphreys, 1856), by J. Roberts, trans. by John Bear (HTML in Australia)
• Australian Sketches (Second Series), by Thomas McCombie (page images in Germany)
• Fought and Won (Adelaide: W. K. Thomas and Co., 1922), by John Lewis, contrib. by Ernest Whitington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a Distance of Upwards of 3000 Miles, During the Years 1844-1845 (London: T. amp; W. Boone, 1847), by Ludwig Leichhardt
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images in Germany
• Lonely Lands: Through the Heart of Australia (Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1909), by Francis Birtles
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Experiences in Australia: Being Recollections of a Visit to the Australian Colonies in 1856-7, by a Lady (London: J. F. Hope, 1860), by Emma Macpherson (page images at Google)
• On the Wallaby: or, Through the East and Across Australia (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894), by Guy Boothby, illust. by Ben Boothby
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands: Being the Adventures of James F. O'Connell, Edited From His Verbal Narration (Boston: B. B. Mussey, 1836), by James F. O'Connell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the Colonies: or, The Adventures of an Emigrant, by Charles Rowcroft (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1921), by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• What We Saw in Australia (1875), by Rosamond Davenport Hill and Florence Davenport Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Boy's Voyage Round the World (London: J. Murray, 1905), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Explorations in Australia (1875), by John Forrest (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hard Life in the Colonies, and Other Experiences by Sea and Land, Now First Printed, Compiled From Private Letters (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), ed. by Catherine Carlyon Jenkyns, contrib. by Arthur Cardew Jenkins, Gilbert Chilcott Jenkins, and Haln Killegrew Dunbar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53, Written on the Spot, by Mrs. Charles Clacy (Gutenberg text)
• Land-Travel and Sea-Faring (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891), by Morley Roberts, illust. by A. D. McCormick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Australian Cousins (London: Macmillan, 1880), by James Inglis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Physical Configuration of the Australian Continent (Sydney and Brisbane: W. Brooks and Co., 1905), by Ernest Favenc (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.