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Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years by Jackie French; Peter Sheehan (Illustrator)
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Category: History | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world. Then along came the Du ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #4: Gold, Graves and Glory by Jackie French
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Category: Middle Readers | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels... Australia would never be th ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #6: Weevils, War and Wallabies by Jackie French
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: QANTAS founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Grim Crims & Convicts (Fair Dinkum Histories #2) by Jackie French
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Category: History | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen. Eleven ships with nearly 15,000 people travelled 25,000 kilometers to the other side of the world. But what did they find when they arrived?
Rotters and Squatters (Fair Dinkum Histories #3) by Jackie French
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Category: Middle Readers | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
Rotters and Squatters continues the warts-and-all story of Australia from 1820 to 1850. This period saw new colonies founded and squatters spreading into new areas and taking the best land. Clashes with the Indigenous population were inevitable and often brutal. As the supply of convict labour dried up, ...Show more
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