The Hawkesbury River: A Social and Natural History by Paul Boon
$120.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales. A vital source of water and food, it has a long Aboriginal history and was critical for the survival of the early British colony at Sydney. The Hawkesbury's weathered shores, cliffs, and fertile plains have inspired generations of art ...Show more
Evil Life : the Calabrian Mafia in Australia by Clive Small; Tom Gilling
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest, and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been resp ...Show more
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con by Beau Donelly; Nick Toscano
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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Cold War Games by Harry Blutstein
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Cold War Games shows vividly how the USSR and US exploited the Melbourne Olympic Games for propaganda, turning athletic fields, swimming pools and other sporting venues into battlefields in which each fought for supremacy.The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the 'friendly games', but Ea ...Show more
SCANDAL IN THE COLONIES by MCKENZIE KIRSTEN
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1830s Sydney, a visiting aristocrat, Viscount Lascelles, is exposed as a former convict. In Cape Town, during the same decade, veiled accusations of incest and murmurs about a concealed pregnancy surround the family of the Chief Justice, Sir John Wylde. In these British colonies, the divide between t ...Show more
Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia by Diana Preston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3, ...Show more
No Front Line: Australia's special forces at war in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australian Defen ...Show more
The Harbour by Scott Bevan
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and Empire by John Mcaleer; Nigel Rigby
$80.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Britain`s Soldiers (BOYD) Ser.
British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geographic questions, and inspired some of the most influen ...Show more
Living in the 1960s by Noeline Brown
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The sixties was a decade of safari suits, shift dresses, capri pants, and droopy moustaches. Of multi-purpose French onion soup, junket, tripe, and Bloody Marys. Of success on the world's sporting stage and social and political stirrings at home, as Baby Boomers and their parents began to see the world ...Show more
Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History by Mandy Sayer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present. Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots of R ...Show more
Dampier, the Dutch and the Great South Land by Rob Mundle
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's bestselling maritime historian explores the story of how the Dutch discovered Australia. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance w ...Show more