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
Ever Open Door: History Of The Roya by Gregory,Alan
$54.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Ghost Towns Of The Mountain Goldfie by Steenhuis, Luke
$21.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Justus Jorgensen: Conversations & a by Teichman, Jenny
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Edwardian Melbourne in Picture Postcards by Angus Trumble; Alexandra Bertram
$43.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser.
This is a view of Melbourne through the 'eyes' of postcards. It's a highly innovative concept and probably the best visual on the topic. The content ranges from love letters to travel diaries.
Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth by Jeff Maynard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced h ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
$26.95 AUD
Category: General History
Now in paperback, this is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the brightest young stars of mainstream history writing. Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glitt ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Byron - Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England by Emily Brand
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: near fine
THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Delectable ... a ravishing family saga' Sunday Times 'Brings to life the colourful characters of the Georgian era's most notorious families with all the verve and skil ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their he ...Show more