What do kangaroos, movie special effects, an opera house, and electric refrigerators have in common? They all have histories in Australia, one of Earth's seven continents. Discover the great minds and finds of ancient and modern Australia in this learning adventure--Amazon.

Mongolia. Acclaimed anthropologist and explorer Wade Davis travels to the Central Asian steppes of Mongolia to meet descendants of Genghis Khan. These people are remnants of an ancient nomadic horse culture that thrived in the region's harsh conditions for more than 2,000 years. -- Australia. National Geographic joins Wade Davis on a journey deep into the Australian outback to document the disappearing cultures of Australia's Aborigines, thought to...

"On a Barbarous Coast is an alternative retelling of Captain James Cook's story co-written by Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick in the tradition of imagined histories.We were becoming the wild things we most feared, but could not see it at the time.On a night of raging winds and rain, Captain Cook's Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of far north Australia. A small disparate band of survivors, fracturing already, huddle on the...