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Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
The vivid, ground-breaking history of early Tasmania. Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. In this definitive history, James Boyce shows how they were changed by the natural world they encountered. Behind the official attempt to create a Little England was anothe ...Show more
Melbourne : Updated Edition by Sophie Cunningham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
A year in Melbourne's city life told in diary form, this contemporary and personal portrait depicts major events from the Australian heat wave, which culminated in more than 400 bushfires, to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. While walking through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, ex ...Show more
Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Seen as the last 'hot' frontline of the Cold War, the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation and visited terrible harm on civilians and soldiers. Yet the Australian forces applied tactics that were very differe ...Show more
Darwin : Updated Edition by Tess Lea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
Razed to the ground four times in its short history, the city of Darwin, Australia, has picked itself up out of the debris to not only rebuild but grow. Darwin has known catastrophes and resurrections; it has endured misconceived projects and birthed visionaries. To write about her home town, Tess Lea w ...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
Macquarie (HB) by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming the harsh, foreboding penal colony of New Holland into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society. He also help ...Show more
Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians by National Museum of Australia
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation's origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by Indigenous Australians. Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of C ...Show more
Perth : Updated Edition by David Whish-Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
Dispelling some of the more unflattering stereotypes of Perth, acclaimed author and Perth native David Whish-Wilson describes how the city strikes a perfect harmony with its own eccentricities and contradictions, presenting a place of surprising beauty—of brilliant light and sand-swept peace—where deepe ...Show more
The Shackled Continent : Africa's past, present and future by Robert Guest
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the last three decades. Why?The Shackled Continent, Robert Guest's fascinating first book, seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Using reportage, first-hand experience and economic insight, Robert Guest takes ...Show more
Cook and the Pacific by John Maynard; Susannah Helman; Martin Woods
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Cook led a scientific expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Tahiti, circumnavigated New Zealand and established that it was two separate islands, and nearly perished when the Endeavour ran aground on the worlds largest coral reef. In 1779, on his third Pacific voyage, he was killed in Hawaii. Co ...Show more
Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, The by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
The Wreck of the "Batavia" and "Prosper" by Simon Leys
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
In 1629, the Bataviawas wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board surtvived, only to become victims of a visionary psychopath who, with the help of a dozen followers, organised a methodical massacre of the hapless community. Following the wreak ...Show more
