Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia by David Day
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian
David Day's much-lauded history of Australia Claiming a Continent won the prestigious Non-Fiction Prize at the 1998 South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. Now in its fourth edition this study of Australian history is sure to draw new readers. Provocative and daring Day has established him ...Show more
Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the Archaeological and Historical Records by Val Attenbrow
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This edition of Sydney's Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical, archaeological, geological, environmental and linguistic research, as well as oral evidence of present-day Aboriginal people, to reveal the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region before, during and for the first 30 years ...Show more
Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia; An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
Shearer's Motel by Roger McDonald
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
An account of life as a sheep-shearer.
The Explorers by Tim Flannery (ed.)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest. This bestselling anthology, brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us beyond the frontier into a world of danger, compassion, humour ...Show more
The Men Who Came Out of the Ground by Paul Cleary
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
By February 1942 the Japanese had invaded the Dutch East Indies as part of their push south. All that stood in the way of their moving significant resources to take part in the main fighting in Papua New Guinea was a force of 700 Australian commandos and a few hundred Dutch soldiers. After months of ski ...Show more
The Architect of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle - The Man Who Made the Kokoda Track by Robyn Kienzle
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
If one person 'made' the Kokoda Track, that man was Bert Kienzle. Part Samoan and German/English, born in Fiji and raised in Germany and Australia, he was managing a rubber plantation and gold mine in Papua New Guinea at the outbreak of World War II. He surveyed and established the Track, and spent more ...Show more
The Bushrangers: Australia's Greatest Self-made Heroes by Evan McHugh
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Australian Book of Disasters by Larry Writer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The recent floods that ravaged Queensland saw three-quarters of the state declared a disaster zone - from the capital city on the Brisbane River to remote rural communities - and caused billions of dollars worth of damage, forcing thousands to abandon their homes. This latest assault by nature reminds u ...Show more