Convict-era Port Arthur : Misery of the Deepest Dye by David W. Cameron
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthurfocuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a signif ...Show more
Kosciuszko by Nick Brodie
14.99 AUD
29.99 (50% off)
Category: Australian History
Australia's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, is a dangerous place. Evan Hayes was an ordinary Australian battler. Hardworking, likable. Laurie Seaman was a world-wise American. Adventurous, affluent. When this athletic pair of cross-country skiers disappeared into the wilds of Kosciuszko they left a ...Show more
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can be Saved by Peter Andrews; John Williams (Foreword by); Gerry Harvey (Foreword by)
9.99 AUD
29.95 (66% off)
Category: Australian History
Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He ...Show more
The True Story of Ned Kelly's Last Stand by Paul Terry
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Using science, history and family lore to unearth a new understanding of how a legend was made this is the full story of the most famous siege in Australian history - the man and the myth; the people great and small.
Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women w ...Show more
The Bible in Australia - A Cultural History by Meredith Lake
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, a ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
The Long Paddock (HB) by Andrew Chapman
14.99 AUD
39.95 (62% off)
Category: Australian History
Drovers lead lives governed by the pace of their herds, the rhythm of the seasons and by the travelling stock routes on which they move. These pathways are known to most Australians as The Long Paddock. Acclaimed documentary photographer Andrew Chapman and award-winning journalist and author Tim Lee hav ...Show more
The Flying Kangaroo (HB) by Qantas
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
No symbol better conveys the intrepid spirit of Australia than the flying kangaroo. Whether it's glimpsed on a red-eye flight to an interstate business meeting, before leaving for adventure or holidays, or when longing to return home, that sweep of red defines air travel in Australia. Qantas has always ...Show more
Struggletown - Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965 by Janet McCalman
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
'The old Struggletowners, if they could see it now, would not believe their eyes.'In Struggletown, Janet McCalman takes us into the inner-city industrial working-class suburb of Richmond, in Melbourne, before the gentrification of the 1970s. This is a narrative richly informed by the voices and memories ...Show more
Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial Australia by Matt Murphy
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australia and its formation - through the distorted view of a rum bottle. Could the Rum Rebellion have been averted if Major Johnston wasn't too hungover to meet Governor Bligh? Would the Eureka Stockade have played out differently if the rebels weren't pissed? How were prisoners to get drunk if Macqua ...Show more
Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
45.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two ...Show more