Bold and Lucky Australias Colonial Navy 1824 - 1831
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
A prequel to his 'World's end' British military outposts in the 'ring fence' around Australia 1824-1849, this book by prize-winning historian and keen sailor Alan Powell celebrates the small ships of Australia's colonial navy. Brigs, cutters, schooners and sloops were pressed into service in a rag-tag a ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans ...Show more
Pathfinders by Michael Bennett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history.From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover's wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles. A rare exception is the redoubtable tracker. With skills passed down over millennia, trackers could ...Show more
Lessons From History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges by Edited by: Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In Lessons from History leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present.Does history repeat itself in meaningful ways, or is each problem unique? Does a knowledge of Australian histor ...Show more
Reflections: Australia Wide: Panoramic Images by Ken Duncan with Inspiring Quotes by Ken Duncan; Peter Morley (Designed by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Panoramic images by Ken Duncan with Inspirational Quotes
The House: The Dramatic Story of the Sydney Opera House and the People Who Made It by Helen Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse. Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera H ...Show more
Not Just Black and White by Lesley Williams
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Lesley Williams is forced to leave Cherbourg Aboriginal reserve and her family at fifteen to work as a domestic servant. Apart from a bit of pocket money, Lesley never sees her wages - they are kept 'safe' for her and for countless others just like her. She is taught not to question her life, until desp ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
The Forgotten Islands: One Man's Voyage into a Truly Gothic Australia by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Michael Veitch has long been fascinated by the islands of Bass Strait, between mainland Australia and Tasmania - a multitude of cold, dark isles, regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited, but rich in atypical Australian history. This is the story of his personal odyssey among them (plag ...Show more
Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
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Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes by Steve Morton
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent – the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how Australian desert ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more