Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Truth of the Palace Letters, The: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 by Paul Kelly; Troy Bramston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous tenure as Governor-General of Australia. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of ...Show more
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forest River Massacre by Kate Auty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence ...Show more
Girt by China: Power Play in the Pacific: Australian Foreign Affairs 17 by Jonathan Pearlman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What challenges does Australia face as the world's great powers battle for a foothold in the Pacific?The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the growing rivalry and increasing tension in the Pacific as it becomes a stage for a great-power contest to gain influence and a strategic positio ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
Cook's Endeavour Journal : the Inside Story by James Cook
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Cook's Endeavour Journal : the Inside Story brings to life the record of one of the world's most famous expeditions, the circumnavigation of the globe by Lieutenant James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour. It is a timeless story of courageous exploration - the charting of New Zealand and Australia's eastern sea ...Show more
The Water Dreamers: The remarkable history of our dry continent by Michael Cathcart
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew. From the moment the First ...Show more
Douglas Mawson : The Life of an Explorer by Lincoln Hall
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Douglas Mawson is the best known of Australia's Antarctic explorers. After an apprenticeship on an expedition with Ernest Shackleton, which saw Mawson lead a small team to the South Magnetic Pole for the first time, his own expedition of 1911-14 captured the imagination of Australians, at a time when kn ...Show more
Aviation: The World's Aircraft A - Z by Fia O Caoimh
$33.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A visual encyclopaedia of aircraft, with emphasis on obscure or forgotten planes. It features illustrations of planes and helicopters, accompanied by detailed technical specifications, that re-create the progression of aircraft, beginning with the early days of flight.
CONCISE HISTORY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by EARLS DAVIS, RUSSELL
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian