Terra Australis: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia by TIM FLANNERY (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and comm ...Show more
Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
Jewish Anzacs Jews in the Australian Military by Mark Dapin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Acclaimed journalist, novelist and military historian Mark Dapin tells the personal, often extraordinary stories of Australia's Jewish servicemen and women. Over 7000 Jews from Australia - and overseas - have fought in the nation's military conflicts. Sir John Monash may be the best known, but Dapin als ...Show more
Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather - The Era of the Australian Airline Hostess by Prudence Black
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Air hostesses took to the skies in the 1930s, proud and excited to have the most glamorous job in the world. This was a job like no other-filled with adventure, shiny new technology, and work that was thrilling, demanding and exhausting. Young women flocked in droves to be measured, weighed, and squeeze ...Show more
EVENTS THAT SHAPED AUSTRALIA by Wendy Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The events featured in this book changed Australia and have the nation what it is today. Events that Shaped Australia sets out the detail, the people, the images and the after effects of the most important turning points in our nation's history. Starting with the formation of Gondwanaland and the arriva ...Show more
The Petrov Affair by Robert Manne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In the highly charged atmosphere of the Cold War, the 1954 defection of Soviet diplomats Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov detonated under Australian politics like a nuclear explosion. From the moment the famous photo of Soviet thugs manhandling Evdokia Petrova across the Mascot tarmac hit the newstands, the ...Show more
Denny Day: The Life and Times of Australia's Greatest Lawman - the Forgotten Hero of the Myall Creek Massacre by Terry Smyth
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Captain Edward Denny Day u the only law 'from the Big River to the sea' u was Australia's greatest lawman, yet few have heard of him. This is his story. Once there was a wilderness: Australia's frontier, a dangerous and unforgiving place where outlaws ruled the roads and killers were hailed as heroes. I ...Show more
Dreaming Too Loud by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Christopher Hitchens described Geoffrey Robertson as 'the greatest living Australian' and the satirical magazine Private Eye calls him 'an Australian who has had a vowel transplant'. Just before he was to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London Times complained that he was 'anti-establishment, republic ...Show more
ANZAC Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial by Peter Pedersen
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This landmark publication commemorates the centenary of the Great War's Gallipoli campaign, 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916. ANZAC Treasures approaches the subject of Gallipoli not only from a military perspective but also in terms of its social impact and its role in commemoration and nation building. ...Show more
When War Came to Fremantle by Deborah Gare and Madison Lloyd-Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
As Australia's largest wartime port, Fremantle played a unique role in the nation's story. Featuring extraordinary photographs, this volume is a fascinating account of our homefront during the Boer War, World War I, World War II and more. It records our history of departure and reunion, victory and cele ...Show more
Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy by Sophie Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in the cracking air when there is an electrical storm and as the thunder rolls around the sky...When Cyclone Tracy swept down on Darwin at Christmas 1974, the weather became not just a living thing but a killer. Tra ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more