Bearing Witness the Remarkable Life of Charles Bean and the Legend He Created by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. ...Show more
Admiral Hornblower: "Flying Colours"; The "Commodore"; "Lord Hornblower"; "Hornblower In the West Indies" by C.S. Forester
$26.95 AUD
Category: General History | Series: A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
Combines seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower, namely: "Flying Colours", "The Commodore", "Lord Hornblower" and "Hornblower in the West Indies".
A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
$44.95 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
'While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to "The Fate of the Empire", set the tone and agenda for the final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain, her people and her past. Spanning two centuries, crossing the breadth of the empire and cover ...Show more
Oceania by Peter Brunt, Noelle Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Sean Mallon, Michael Mel, Anne Salmond, & Nicholas Thomas
$110.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
250 years after Cook's voyage to the South Pacific, the dazzling and diverse art of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary. From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on th ...Show more
Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth.Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they d ...Show more
Seamanship in the Age of Sail by John Harland
$120.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
320 pages Illustrated by Mark Myers. "The most comprehensive historical work on the sailing ship ever published...any sailor worth his salt must have it on his shelf ashore." - The Daily Telegraph. Based on contemporary sources, this work describes for the first time the full historical development o ...Show more
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary by Darwin, Charles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
On 27th December 1831, HMS Beagle set out from Plymouth under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy on a voyage that lasted nearly 5 years. The purpose of the trip was to complete a survey of the southern coasts of South America, and afterwards to circumnavigate the globe. The ship's geologist and natur ...Show more
HISTORY OF PORTUGAL AND THE PORTUGUESEEMPIRE 2 VOLUME SET by A. R. Disney
$87.95 AUD
Category: General History
The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d' tre and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth c ...Show more
History Of Portugal Volume 1 by Disney, A. R.
$43.95 AUD
Category: General History
The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d' tre and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth c ...Show more
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
$49.95 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
Takes an original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them.