Under the Colony's Eye: Gentlemen and Convicts on Cockatoo Island 1839-1869 by CASTRIQUE SUE
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans ...Show more
Bearing Witness the Remarkable Life of Charles Bean and the Legend He Created by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. ...Show more
Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales by A. W. Reed
$17.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
How did snakes become poisonous? Why are there black swans only in Australia? Learn a bout the powerful Rainbow Snake, red and black flying foxes, the Eagle-hawk and the Medicine-man in these incredible tales of the Dramtime. So much of traditional Aboriginal storytelling teaches us about the animal wor ...Show more
Aboriginal Legends - Animal Tales by Reed A W
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
A.W. Reed. Why are there black swans only in Australia? How did snakes become poisonous? Learn about the powerful Rainbow Snake, red and black flying foxes, the Eagle-hawk and the Medicine Man in these incredible tales of the Dreamtime. A unique collection of stories for those interested in learning mor ...Show more
Tasmania's Convicts by Alison Alexander
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of do ...Show more
Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac 'legend'. But it was also a war fought by the families at home. Their resilience in the face of hardship, their stoic acceptanc ...Show more
Don't Go Back to Where You Came from: Why Multiculturalism Works by Tim Soutphommasane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Tim Soutphommasane boldly stakes a claim for the overwhelming success of multiculturalism in Australia. European governments are declaring multiculturalism a failure, with many conservatives in Australia hastening to agree. But is a multicultural approach to integration and diversity really as destructi ...Show more
Australian Moment by George Megalogenis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012 The book of the TV series Making Australia Great There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use our brains in ...Show more
Mayday: The inside Story of the fall of Qantas by Matt O'Sullivan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Power-plays, public spats, strategic blunders, betrayal and revenge: the fall of Qantas has more intrigue and drama than any in-flight movie. How did a national icon become a national liability? Founded in 1920 by two WWI pilots and a grazier, the 'Flying Kangaroo' is one of the oldest and most respecte ...Show more
Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars by Sam Vincent
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It's loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels' engines and the hiss of ten water cannons ... Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces - afraid, excited, a ...Show more