WELL MAY WE SAY: THE SPEECHES by WARHAFT, SALLY
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
From Robert Menzies' famous speech on The Forgotten People' to former Hawthorn coach John Kennedy's rousing three-quarter time address to his players on Grand Final Day, "Well May We Say" shows that the mood, character and history of Australia and its people can be defined by its words. In a time when l ...Show more
A Kind of Victory: Captain Charles Cox and His Australian Cavalrymen by Craig Wilcox
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In 1899, on the eve of the Boer War, Captain Charles Cox from Parramatta took 100 Australian cavalrymen to train with the British army in England. These military apprentices became British soldiers as well as Australian ones. But everything went wrong. Publicity got in the way of cavalry drill which, in ...Show more
True Story of the Great Escape: A Young Australian POW in the Most Audacious Breakout of WWII by Louise Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Shot down in 1942, young Australian fighter pilot John Williams DFC became a POW in the notorious Stalag Luft III camp in Germany. John had joined the air force shortly before the outbreak of war and, in the larrikin tradition, led his squadron into air combat over the deserts of Libya and Egypt dressed ...Show more
Key Guide to Australian Mammals by Leonard Cronin
$30.75 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Key Guides
Tarra - The Story of a Small Ship by Jack Peel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Tarra describes the 25 years of service provided to the nation by a 125-foot Wooden Cargo Vessel, operated by the Australian Army from her launch in 1945 to her abandonment in huge seas off the north coast of New South Wales in 1965. During the war in the South Pacific, the only mode of transport availa ...Show more
Waves: For Those Who Come Across The Sea (PB) by Donna Rawlins, Mark Jackson, Heather Potter
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia. Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine or war or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends and all they know. Children have travelled ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My Family Stronger, Happier ... and Less American by Damien Cave
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
When Damien Cave brought his young family to Sydney to set up the New York Times' Australian Bureau, they encountered the local pursuits of Nippers and surfing - and a completely different approach to risk that changed the way they lived their lives.Damien Cave has always been fascinated by risk. Having ...Show more
Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin: A Contested History by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s food bowl, is in crisis. For more than a century, the Basin has faced a series of environmental catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recognised wet ...Show more
Lawson by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent ...Show more
Ten Rogues: The unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile by Peter Grose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, ...Show more