Australian Farming Families by Deb Hunt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'This is a book about the human aspects of life on the land - the stories of success and failure, life and love, of hardship and celebration - and the passion and gritty determination that characterised every family I interviewed.'Author Deb Hunt sets out to discover what makes what makes Australian far ...Show more
The Reith Papers by Peter K. Reith
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Peter Reith was a senior federal Cabinet minister from 1996 to 2001. He was the face of the Coalition government's tough waterfront reforms, a major contributor to the Fightback! policy, a potential leader of the Liberal Party, the architect of sweeping industrial laws and defence minister during the ti ...Show more
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney Rn by Suzanne Rickard; Peter Cochrane (Foreword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1 ...Show more
Australian History in 7 Questions by John Hirst
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable - and dull.' From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past an ...Show more
Fifteen Young Men: Australia's Untold Football Tragedy by Paul Kennedy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Fifteen Young Menis the true story of a doomed adventure.It was a maritime tragedy that unfolded one sad, dark hour at a time. A cold, cruelly blustery night revealing - with agonising slowness - that fifteen young men of the Mornington Football Club would never make it home. As dawn broke and families ...Show more
Great Australian Journeys by Graham Seal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM..Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endur ...Show more
From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must w ...Show more
The Honest History Book by Alison Broinowski (Editor); David Stephens (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia - mostly for its impact on our citizens a ...Show more
The Pacific - In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, ...Show more
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England ...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
Frederick Whirlpool VC by Alan Leek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The true story of the first soldier in Australian uniform to be presented with the Victoria Cross.