The Story of Australia's People: Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more
Women to the Front by Heather Sheard; Ruth Lee
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undau ...Show more
Lawson by Grantlee Kieza
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent ...Show more
The Archipelago of Us: A Search for Our Identity in Australia’s Most Remote Territories by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australia's complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.Five years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Renee Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories o ...Show more
The Last Daughter by Brenda Matthews
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Last Daughter is a story of heartbreak and healing that offers a path forward for all AustraliansWhen Brenda Matthews was two years old, she and her siblings were taken from their parents. For the next five y ...Show more
Sons of War: Astonishing stories of under-age Australian soldiers who fought in the Second World War by Paul Byrnes
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Category: Australian History
In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never have imagined. Like many of their fathers in the Great War, they went with their eyes wide shut: under-trained, under-equipped and under-age. Some were as young as th ...Show more
Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3 by David Hunt
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Libera ...Show more
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Da ...Show more
100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places by Ben Pobjie
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
From the ghostly black horse of Sutton Forest to the butcher of Adelaide Street, a haunted Brisbane lift to the chilling experiments carried out by Doctor Blood of the North Kapunda Hotel, Australia abounds in spooky stories that are all unnervingly based in fact and tied to real places to visit or avoi ...Show more
Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Shauna Bostock
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history. The phone rang unexpectedly late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of generations of slave traders!' With this startling revelation, Shauna wanted to ...Show more
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more
Culture is Life: A Photographic Exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Modern Australia by Wayne Quilliam
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Culture is Life is a modern, photographic celebration of the diversity of Indigenous Australians. In the same way that Humans of New York offered interesting life stories to give context to images of everyday New Yorkers, pre-eminent photographer Wayne Quilliam has collected over 500 images and intervie ...Show more