Banks (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Lust, science, adventure -- Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped b ...Show more
Auld Duncans' Kangaroo Ground Tales by Mcclusky, Sandy
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more
Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man in the World by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
He's all but been lost from history but once upon a time, Bert Hinkler, a small, unprepossessing man from Bundaberg, was feted as one of the most daring aviators in the world. Mussolini's favourite pilot, Hinkler was an adventurer who along with early pioneers flew single-handed across countries, contin ...Show more
By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
Sons Of The Southern Cross: rebels, revolutions, Anzacs and the spirit of Australia's fighting flag by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Ever since the Southern Cross flag was 'born' in the minefields of Victoria it's been a symbol for a rebellious Australian spirit - from the battles of Eureka to those of Ned Kelly, from the birth of the Labor Party to the Anzacs at Galliopoli. The men and women involved took the flag as their symbol. B ...Show more
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point fo ...Show more
The Cambridge History of Australia 2 Volume Set by Stuart Macintyre & Alison Bashford
$325.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the nation's social, political and cultural story. Volume 1 examines Australia's indigenous and colonial history thr ...Show more
Wanderers and Dreamers - History of the David Herman Theatre in Melbourne by Arnold Zable; Moshe Ajzenbud
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Many Jews came from Europe to Australia in the early part of the century, a place as far away from home in their imaginations as it was in miles. Tracing the history of their theatrical movement from its inception through its heyday, this bilingual book, in Yiddish and English, is a lively and entertain ...Show more
'Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe': Nicolas Baudin's voyage to Australia and the pursuit of science by Jean Fornasiero (Editor); John West-Sooby (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Age of Exploration not only paved the way for European conquest and trade, it also widened the horizons of science. By the second half of the eighteenth century, the link between travel and science was so widely acknowledged that it had become routine practice to include naturalists in all major voy ...Show more
Retaking Kokoda: The Battles for Templeton's Crossing, Eora Creek and the Oivi-Gorari positions by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and ’30s, Tongerlongeter and his allies led the most effective frontier resistance ever mounted on Australian soil. They killed or wounded some 354 — or 4 per cent — of the ...Show more