First Footprints: The epic story of the First Australians by Scott Cane
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the plains and enormous crocodiles, giant snakes and goannas nestled in the estuaries and savannahs. First Fo ...Show more
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Eureka Stockade - The Unfinished Revolution In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic ...Show more
Warrior A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier by Libby Connors
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our warriors were Anzacs. Not all our wars were just.' - John Birmingham, author and columnist In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of deadly ...Show more
The Pacific: in the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill (PB) by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of peop ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: POTATO FACTORY
Ikey Solomon's favourite saying is also his way of doing business. And in the business of thieving, he's very successful indeed. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from thriving nineteen ...Show more
The Bush - Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke ...Show more
Cook's Endeavour Journal : the Inside Story by James Cook
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Cook's Endeavour Journal : the Inside Story brings to life the record of one of the world's most famous expeditions, the circumnavigation of the globe by Lieutenant James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour. It is a timeless story of courageous exploration - the charting of New Zealand and Australia's eastern sea ...Show more
The Water Dreamers: The remarkable history of our dry continent by Michael Cathcart
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew. From the moment the First ...Show more
Douglas Mawson : The Life of an Explorer by Lincoln Hall
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Douglas Mawson is the best known of Australia's Antarctic explorers. After an apprenticeship on an expedition with Ernest Shackleton, which saw Mawson lead a small team to the South Magnetic Pole for the first time, his own expedition of 1911-14 captured the imagination of Australians, at a time when kn ...Show more
Aviation: The World's Aircraft A - Z by Fia O Caoimh
$33.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A visual encyclopaedia of aircraft, with emphasis on obscure or forgotten planes. It features illustrations of planes and helicopters, accompanied by detailed technical specifications, that re-create the progression of aircraft, beginning with the early days of flight.