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Geronimo by Robert M. Utley
$39.95 AUD
Category: American | Series: Lamar Series in Western History
Secondhand. A fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time, with new material to reveal the man behind the legend Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo c ...Show more
History Mysteries: Diamond Jack by Mark Greenwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: History Mysteries Ser.
In March 1942, an aircraft prepares for a desperate midnight escape, taking refugees to safety in Australia. Just before take-off, the pilot is entrusted with a mysterious, wax-sealed package. But when the plane is shot down by the enemy and crash lands on the Kimberley coast, the package is forgotten-- ...Show more
History Mysteries: Lasseter's Gold by Mark Greenwood
$13.00 AUD
Category: Information Books | Series: History Mysteries Ser.
It?s 1930, and a man named Harold Lasseter claims to have discovered a massive gold reef in Central Australia. As he journeys across the desert to find it again, he buries maps and secret messages beneath the ashes of his campfires - before taking the location of the treasure to his grave...
History Mysteries: The Last Tiger by Mark Greenwood
$13.00 AUD
Category: Information Books | Series: History Mysteries Ser.
In 1936, hunted and trapped by European farmers, the last few Tasmanian Tigers take refuge in the forests of Tasmania. But even after the last-known Tiger dies alone and neglected in a zoo, people claim to have sighted this amazing creature. No one can prove it still exists, until a determined searcher ...Show more
History Mysteries: The Lost Explorer by Mark Greenwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: History Mysteries Ser.
In 1848 the famous explorer Ludwig Leichhardt sets out on an epic journey. His aim is to cross Australia from east to west, but he never reaches his destination and no one from his expedition is ever seen again. Countless search parties set out to look for the expedition but no trace is ever found. Unti ...Show more
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
Following the enormous success of "Hitler: Hubris" this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning ...Show more
I Wonder: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis by Peter Browne (Editor); Seumas Spark (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Australian History Ser.
Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach -- summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' -- won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about re ...Show more
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn
$50.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology Ser.
Who were the ancient Phoenicians--and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the P ...Show more
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
$27.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: The\History of England Ser.
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentInnovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaught ...Show more
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leopold Damrosch
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-century Culture & History
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a nat ...Show more
Lakota America: New History of Indigen.. by Pekka Hämäläinen
$65.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Lamar Series in Western History Ser.
The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka H m l inen explores the Lakotas' ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more