Old Australia by Barrie Sheppard
29.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
The pioneering spirit of the last 150 years is celebrated in the pages of this book. The stunning architecture of marvellous Melbourne, built on the bountiful riches of the goldfields, The toil of a working life on the land, where transport is by horse, and bicycle and boat and your bush hut has a floor ...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
Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers by Garry Linnell
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A gay bushranger with a love of poetry and guns. A grotesque hangman with a passion for flowers and gardening.A broken young man desperate for love and respect. These men - two of them lovers - are about to bring the era ofAustralia's outlaws to a torrid and bloody climax. Moonlite is the true and epic ...Show more
Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market by Scott Hamilton, Stuart Kells
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 ...Show more
Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories by Bill Marsh
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
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The Cowra Breakout by Mat McLachlan
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, Japanese prisoners of war were held in an internment camp. By August 1944 over a thousand were interned and on the icy night of August 5th they staged the largest prison breakout in history, launching the only battle of World War II t ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues (2nd Edition) by Thomas Mayo
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak to explain why the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to all Australians. Australia is set to vote on a refer ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...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
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe. Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the w ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians: a History Since.. by Richard Broome
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for powe ...Show more
Seafaring: Canoeing Ancient Songlines by Victor Briggs
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle’s do not need modern scientific proof to have validity — the role of story in Indigenous community is key to all aspects of our Culture.'A long time ...Show more