Middle KingdomThe Colonial History of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by James Sinclair
$89.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This is an account of the 'discovery', exploration, pacification and development of the Eastern, Western and Southern Highlands, Simbu and Enga Provinces of Papua New Guinea, from their beginnings to independence in September 1975 - the colonial era. New Guinea was the last of the great land masses of ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--thro ...Show more
The Fierce Country : True stories from Australia's unsettled heart, 1830 to today by Stephen Orr
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Fierce Country holds no malice, but neither pity. It just sits, and bakes, and waits. We do the rest. We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers. Weaken it, and ourselves, when we leave mountains of asbestos to blow away in the wind. Misunderstand it when we see it as nothing more than a resource ...Show more
What Will Be Worn - A Mcwhirters' Story by Melissa Fagan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Sometimes it seems the most invaluable stories can be found in the unlikeliest of corners. For all who know Brisbane, McWhirters, a once celebrated department store in Fortitude Valley, is an icon. For Melissa Fagan it is also the starting point for this remarkable exploration of her mother and grandmot ...Show more
Where History Happened: The Hidden Past of Australia's Towns and Places by Peter Spearritt
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Where History Happened' reveals the hidden past of some of Australia's most intriguing towns and places, from mining settlements and whaling stations to monuments and historic houses in our capital cities. The stories that emerge, of remote religious communities, isolated penal colonies, places of Indig ...Show more
The Mighty Krait by Ian McPhedran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: WWII
Over many years, thousands of people have walked past a modest black timber fishing boat bobbing in the waters of Sydney's Darling Harbour, paying it little attention. But appearances can be deceptive.The humble little Japanese-built trawler called the Krait played a crucial role in one of World War II' ...Show more
Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp by David Sornig
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In Blue Lake,David Sornig examines how the 8km-square zone to the west of central Melbourne became the city's blind spot. Once a fertile wetland with a large blue saltwater lagoon, it passed through various incarnations- from boneyards and rubbish tips; through the Depression-era Dudley Flats shanty tow ...Show more
Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook to Charles Darwin by Nigel Rigby; Pieter van der Merwe; Glyn Williams
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. Despite his ordinary roots, he rose through the ranks to become a remarkable officer. On May 27, 1768, Cook, then just a Royal Naval lieutenant, took command of HM bark Endeavour. Its voyage of exploration to the Pac ...Show more
Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians by Royce Kurmelovs
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is still talked about with a sense of awe. This once-in-a-lifetime event capped off 25 straight years of economic growth. Thanks to mining we sidestepped the worst of the Global Financial ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
Napoleon's Australia by Terry Smyth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A fascinating insight into French ambition and amity in Australia, bursting with joie de vivre' - David Hunt, bestselling author of GirtIn the northern winter of 1814, a French armada set sail for New South Wales. The armada's mission was the invasion of Sydney, and its inspiration and its fate were int ...Show more