The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Tobruk (75th Anniversary Edition) by Peter Fitzsimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Battle of Tobruk, in which more than 15,000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in excruciating desert heat through eight long months, again ...Show more
Greek Cafes and Milk Bars of Australia by Effy & Janiszewski Alexakis (Leonard)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Photographs and cultural history
Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans by Clare Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's fi ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
$52.99 AUD
Category: European
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness wit ...Show more
The Chicken Encyclopedia: An Illustrated Reference by Gail Damerow
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From addled to wind egg, crossed beak to zygote, the terminology of everything chicken is demystified in "The Chicken Encyclopedia", a comprehensive A-to-Z reference volume presented in a friendly, highly illustrated format. Whether it's the difference between wry tail, split tail, and gamy tail; the me ...Show more
Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world by Peter Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand p ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
The Bible in Australia - A Cultural History by Meredith Lake
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, a ...Show more
The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
How has Greece shaped the world we live in today, and what can we learn from its history?The story of Greece is our story. Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers - our world has been shaped by the products of Greek civilisation. Yet most of us know little about a people and a place that ha ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more