Peter Monteath Peter Monteath i(A1869 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon An Indigenous South : German Writers on Colonial South Australia Peter Monteath (editor), Matthew P. Fitzpatrick (editor), Adelaide : Wakefield Press , 2024 27929760 2024 anthology criticism

'From its earliest years, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies.

'As they contributed to the founding and consolidation of a British colony, Germans observed the processes of dispossession and subjugation that changed the lives of First Nations peoples around them forever. More than that, they participated in those profound and tragic changes. Importantly, German settlers and visitors left behind records of the events they witnessed.

'This volume collects those precious records and makes them available - most for the first time in English - to a modern Australian readership. It charts the course of German-Australian encounters from first contacts, through the ruptures and violence of a relentlessly expanding European presence and into the twentieth century. As it documents the astounding cultural wealth and complexity of Indigenous peoples under siege, it also lays bare the grim logic of the forces driving their world towards destruction.' (Publication summary)

1 2 y separately published work icon Four Years in a Red Coat : The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike Miyakatsu Koike , Peter Monteath (editor), Yuriko Nagata (editor), Hiroko Cockerill (translator), Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2022 23683948 2022 single work diary

'This publication of an internee's personal diaries will expand our understanding of the civilian internment experience in Australia during World War II, through the words of a Japanese internee who spent four years behind the barbed wire at Loveday.

'The title of this book refers to the dyed red coats that were provided to Japanese and other internees in Australia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 1 y separately published work icon Flight to Fame : Victory in the 1919 Great Air Race, England to Australia Ross Smith , Peter Monteath (editor), Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2019 16790224 2019 single work autobiography 'Flight to Fame, a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words of the pilot, (Sir) Ross Smith.

'In March 1919, Australia's prime minister announced a prize of GBP10,000 for the first successful flight from Great Britain to Australia in under 30 days. Late that same year, the victorious pilots, Ross and Keith Smith, landed in Darwin to international acclaim. The New York Times gushed: 'Captain Ross Smith has done a wonderful thing for the prestige of the British Empire. He must be hailed as the foremost living aviator.' Their achievement was the forerunner to the age of international air travel.

'During the race, Ross and his brother Keith (his co-pilot and navigator) wrote in their diaries daily, recording the journey of their four-man crew in their Vickers Vimy G-EAOU twin-engine plane, its open cockpit exposing them to snow, sleet, hail and unbearable heat. Originally published as 14,000 Miles Through the Air (1922), Ross Smith's book recounts their danger-ridden, record-breaking journey - a mere 16 years after the Wright brothers first defied gravity for just a few seconds.' (Publication summary)

This richly illustrated edition, published to coincide with the flight's centenary, is introduced and edited by historian Peter Monteath.
1 2 y separately published work icon Escape Artist : The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck Peter Monteath , Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2017 11624182 2017 single work biography

'The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break - an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes. An infantryman in the 2/7 Battalion, Johnny Peck was first thrown into battle against Italian forces in the Western Desert. Campaigns against Hitler's Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe in Greece and Crete followed. When Crete fell to the Germans at the end of May 1941, Peck was trapped on the island with hundreds of other men. 

'On the run, they depended on their wits, the kindness of strangers, and sheer good luck. When Peck's luck ran out, he was taken captive by the Germans, then the Italians. Later, after his release from a Piedmontese jail following the Italian Armistice of 1943, and at immense risk to his own life, Peck devoted himself to helping POWs cross the Alps to safety. Captured once more, Peck was sentenced to death and detained in Milan's notorious, Gestapo-run San Vittore prison - until escaping again, this time into Switzerland.
'Historian Peter Monteath reveals the action-packed tale of one young Australian soldier and his remarkable war.' (Publication summary)

2 5 y separately published work icon Reisen : Vierter Band : Australien Australien Friedrich Gerstaecker , Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2016 9612146 1854 single work prose travel

'Friedrich Gerstäcker, the most illustrious and prolific of German travel writers, set foot in Australia in March 1851, having walked across the Andes, traipsed the goldfields of California, and sailed over the Pacific in search of new adventures.

'Gerstäcker found adventures aplenty in Australia. He rowed and trekked down the Murray, absorbed the excitement triggered by the discovery of gold, visited his countrymen in South Australia, and trained his outsider's eyes on a colonial society gripped by profound change.

'In this translated edition of Gerstäcker's book Australien, his lively travelogue is made available for the first time in English. Rarely has Australia's colonial past been presented with such insight, humour and entertainment.' (Publication summary : Australia : A German Traveller in the Age of Gold)

1 A Jewish Refugee in Wartime Melbourne 'Diary of a Hawker' : Robert Ellis Peter Monteath , Gretel Dunstan , 2015 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , November vol. 23 no. 3 2015; (p. 512-533)
1 9 y separately published work icon Red Professor : The Cold War Life of Fred Rose Peter Monteath , Valerie Munt , Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2015 8831385 2015 single work biography

'Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors.

'More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party in 1942. His move to academic life in what he insisted on calling the German Democratic Republic made him a dissident against anthropological orthodoxies in the Soviet Bloc as he had been in Australia. Those final three decades also see his informing on his children to his Stasi handlers.

'Out of relentless research, Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt present an engrossing portrait of the short twentieth century from Rose's birth during the Great War to his death in Berlin shortly after the Wall comes down. The result is unputdownable for its sweep of events while causing us to reflect on how someone can be heroic and horrendous, appalling and admirable.' (Publication summary)

1 2 y separately published work icon Germans Travellers Settlers and Their Descendants in South Australia Peter Monteath (editor), Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2011 6888158 2011 anthology non-fiction

'A collection of essays that "explore the multiple origins, experiences and contributions of Germans in South Australia over some 175 years. Part celebration and part sober assessment, this book helps make sense of South Australia today.' (Source: Back cover)

1 1 y separately published work icon Dear Dr. Janzow : Australia' Lutheran Churches and Refugees from Hitler's Germany Peter Monteath , Unley : Australian Humanities Press , 2005 Z1274016 2005 selected work correspondence
2 6 y separately published work icon The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe : Explorer Emily Caroline Creaghe , North Adelaide : Corkwood Press , 2004 Z1339313 1883 single work diary Describes her journey from Sydney in the ship Corea with calls at Queensland ports, reaching Thursday Island 9 Jan. 1883, arrival at Flinders telegraph station 14 Jan. 1883, and the journey from Normanton to Port Darwin, sailing from Port Darwin for Sydney 22 Aug. 1883 on the steamer Feilung. Gives details of i.a., meetings with Aborigines, hardships of the exploring party and the movements of its several members, the countryside and the towns and stations visited. The account ends 5 Sept. 1883 before the Feilung reached Brisbane, and includes lists of baby clothes, recipes, etc. The collection also includes part of a letter from the author at Katherine telegraph station to her father, Major G. C. Robinson, 12 July 1883, and a processed transcript of most of the diary, with excerpts from newspaper articles and maps of the exploring party's route. (Libraries Australia)
1 2 y separately published work icon Sailing with Flinders : The Journal of Seaman Samuel Smith Samuel Smith , Peter Monteath (editor), North Adelaide : Corkwood Press , 2002 Z1040101 2002 single work diary travel
1 The Kisch Visit Revisited Peter Monteath , 1992 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September no. 34 1992; (p. 69-81)
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