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
Griffith Wars TPB by Tom Gilling; Terry Jones
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder. Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - wh ...Show more
Barney Greatrex by Michael Veitch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter. A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. Bombi ...Show more
Sydney Harbour (1 Volumes Set) by Ian Hoskins
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A sweeping history of one of the world's most recognised landscapes, Sydney Harbour explores the story of the waterway from the time of the Gameragal and Gadigal to the highly charged contemporary debates about the future of the harbour. The story moves seamlessly as the harbour is taken from its tradit ...Show more
Caroline Chisholm: An Irresistible Force by Sarah Goldman
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A fresh, spirited and engaging biography of a fascinating and influential woman who was absolutely instrumental in shaping modern Australia - but whose influence and importance has largely been forgotten. Caroline Chisholm was a take-no-prisoners game-changer of colonial Australia - as well as a charmi ...Show more
Game Of Mates by Cameron K Murray
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
James is our most mundane villain. His victim is Bruce, our typical Aussie, who bleeds from the hip pocket because of James' actions. Game of Mates tells a tale of economic theft across major sectors of Australia's economy, showing how James and his group of well-connected Mates siphon off billions from ...Show more