The Harbour by Scott Bevan
14.99 AUD
35.00 (57% off)
Category: Australian History
In the bestselling tradition of Peter Ackroyd's The Thames, a celebration of one of the world's great waterwaysEveryone knows Sydney Harbour. At least, we think we do.Everyone can see the harbour, whether we have ever been to Sydney or not. By as little as a word or two, the harbour floats into our mind ...Show more
The Harbour by Scott Bevan
14.99 AUD
49.99 (70% off)
Category: Australian History
In the bestselling tradition of Peter Ackroyd's The Thames, a celebration of one of the world's great waterwaysEveryone knows Sydney Harbour. At least, we think we do.Everyone can see the harbour, whether we have ever been to Sydney or not. By as little as a word or two, the harbour floats into our mind ...Show more
The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddies of the Aboriginal art world. He would stay for almost a decade, working alongside a group of senior Gija artists, including acclaimed figures Paddy Bedfor ...Show more
Closing Hell's Gates - Death of a convict station by MAXWELL-STEWART Hami
24.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of unimaginable cruelty at the hands of the system opted for "state-assisted" escape. Five terrified witnesses--their hands and feet bound--were forced to watch as the chained convicts seized Constable George Rex and drowned him in the tannin-staine ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more
The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills by Sarah Murgatroyd
24.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
The harrowing true story of the Burke and Willis expedition team who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost. They departed Melbourne's Royal Park in the summer of 1860, a misfit party of eighteen amateur explorers cheered on by thousands of well-wishers. Their mission: to chart a course ac ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more
Black Snake: The Real Story of Ned Kelly by Leo Kennedy
9.99 AUD
35.00 (71% off)
Category: Australian History
Leo Kennedy is the great grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy and was raised in the shadow of his great grandfather's murder. Leo is a member of the Blue Ribbon Foundation, which supports police families and honours the memory of police killed in the line of duty. He lives with his family in Melbourne, ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
39.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphori ...Show more
The Last Convict by Anthony Hill
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
'It's a good story, Samuel. You're a piece of living history.' Oxford 1863 - Young Samuel Speed sets a barley stack alight in the hope it will earn him a bed in prison for the night. He wants nothing more than a morsel of food in his belly and a warm place to sleep off the streets. What he receives is ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more