Making of Australia by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and acce ...Show more
The Birth of Sydney by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's brilliant anthology reveals Sydney's strange and secret life from its unruly beginnings as a dump for convicts to its arrival as the 'queen of the south' a century later. In this compelling narrativ ...Show more
Dark Paradise by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Aren't remote South Pacific islands supposed to be paradise? Perhaps, from a distance, Norfolk Island looks a peaceful place lush with tall pines. But look closer and that idyllic facade is shattered. For all of the 220 years we have known it, Norfolk's story has been one of darkness, pain, rage and hor ...Show more
Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as ‘guide’s’, ‘native aides’, or ‘intermediaries’ have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: ...Show more
The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit by Larry Writer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of The Dunbar. At the top of The Gap, the haunted cliffs that front the coast of Sydney's Watsons Bay, sits a massive, battered anchor. It belonged to the Dunbar, an 1186-tonne three-masted clipped en route to Sydney from Plymou ...Show more
Cook: From Sailor to Legend (Captain James Cook) by Rob Mundle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From Sailor to Legend - the story of Captain James Cook Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Written with colour, sweep and the authority of Robert Mundle's five decades as a competitive sailor, maritime journalist and broadcaster, this extensively researched new bio ...Show more
Eyre: The Forgotten Explorer by Ivan Rudolph
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Edward John Eyre was one of the most intrepid explorers to tackle the unforgiving Australian outback - and one of the youngest. Lake Eyre, the Eyre Highway between Adelaide and Perth, and many other landmarks are named after him, yet so little is known of his time here. Author Ivan Rudolph shows how thi ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia's Beginnings by Nick Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For over 200 years Australia's official history has focused on English colonisation and 'discovery', with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the h ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
Monash and Chauvel by Roland Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Monash and Chauvel is a gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most crit ...Show more
Beersheba Centenary Edition: Travels through a forgotten Australian victory by Paul Daley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A hundred years ago in October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade participated in what is now regarded as the last great successful cavalry charge. Waving bayonets overhead in the dying light, they raced across six kilometres of exposed ground in Palestine, surprising the well-entren ...Show more