Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales by Graham Seal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are r ...Show more
Eighties: the Decade That Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, th ...Show more
Zealandia - Our Continent Revealed by Nick Mortimer; Hamish Campbell
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
The definitive book on Earth's seventh geological continent - and a spellbinding revision of the natural environment in which New Zealand and the western Pacific exist. Continents are some of Planet Earth's most striking geographic and geological features. To have a continental identity is to be importa ...Show more
Burke & Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: near fine
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.' MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first ...Show more
Tobruk by Peter FitzSimons
$37.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold 'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the Battle ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People - Volume 2 by Geoffrey Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An accomplishment of both great sweep and impressive detail, Geoffrey Blainey's ambitious account of this country, The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia, takes us from the gold rush to the present day. It marks the culmination of a lifelong study by one of Australia's mos ...Show more
Captain James Cook by Rob Mundle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world history. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surround ...Show more
Invisible Country: Southwest Australia: Understanding a Landscape by Bill Bunbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Europeans first settled in Australia, the land withheld many of its secrets from these new arrivals. There were broad rivers, wide plains and tall forests, all of which, to European eyes, suggested promising sites for settlement. To many of the new settlers, the First Australians were a puzzle. The ...Show more
Those Wild Rabbits: How They Shaped Australia by Bruce Munday
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A century ago Australia was home to 10 billion rabbits, thriving in their adopted home. Storyteller Bruce Munday finds the rabbit saga irresistible - the naive hopes of the early settlers, the frustration, environmental damage, cost to agriculture, dreams shattered, and the lessons learned and ignored. ...Show more
Best We Forget - The War for White Australia, 1914-18 by Peter Cochrane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The preparation for a coming war and ultimately the commitment to that war was driven by White Australia's sense of vulnerability in the Pacific, by various nightmare scenarios in which Australia could be left to fend for itself, unaided by Britain, and by the determination to have racial purity at almo ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cel ...Show more
Jack's Journey : An Anzac's Descent into Death, Disaster and Controversy at Gallipoli by Kit Cullen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: General Adult
Jack's Journey is the moving and extraordinary story of an unknown Anzac action at Gallipoli during the period of the Landing on 1 and 2 May, 1915. Kit Cullen began tracing Jack Collyer's story using his three diaries and his service record. The diaries cover the voyage from Australia to training in Egy ...Show more