Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and Wartime Legend by David Dufty
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.
Killing for Country: A Family Story Indie Book of the Year 2024 by David Marr
34.99 AUD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: Australian History
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
45.00 (22% off)
Category: Australian History
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery - to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
Hudson Fysh: The extraordinary life of the WWI hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings by Grantlee Kieza
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings By the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biographies of John Monash, Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and Henry Lawson, this is a fascinating, lively and th ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
49.99 AUD
55.00 (9% off)
Category: Australian History
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the Hangmen and the Underbelly of Colonial Australia by Michael Adams
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
A fresh, unique take on Ned Kelly - a fascinating, entertaining and kaleidoscopic look at the society that shaped him in life and death When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to shit-shoveller-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kel ...Show more
A Wild History - Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier by Darrell Lewis
26.80 AUD
27.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Northern Territory's Victoria River District. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal peoples who had lived there for thousand ...Show more
Under the Banyan Tree: In Search of the Lost History of Australia's North Coast by Graeme Dobson
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
Its a story of great, forgotten empires on Australias doorstep and rich Sultans who claimed that Australias north as their own long before Cook laid eyes on it. Its a story very few Australians know about.
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have m ...Show more
Right Man, Right Place, Worst Time Commander Eric Feldt His Life and His Coastwatchers by Betty Lee
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
In May 1939, Australia’s Naval Intelligence had the foresight to set up a network of men located on various islands north of Australia to report on suspicious shipping movements near their coast. Only one man was considered ideal for commanding this top secret mission — Eric Feldt. Feldt was given the t ...Show more