Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3 by David Hunt
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Libera ...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
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian History | 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
Great Furphies of Australian History: What you really need to know - the truth behind the myths by Jim Haynes
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Au ...Show more
Horseman of the Outback: Their Spurs and Spurmakers by Don John Edward Corcoran
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
This is an extremely well researched work which will be treasured by all horse riders. It is a very thorough account of Australian spurs and the bush blacksmiths like Fred Gutte who designed his on Wave Hill Station, but is is much more that that. If offers a romantic folklore of the horsemaen who used ...Show more
Lasseter's Reef: One Man's Journey Uncovers The Truth by Bill DeCarli
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
Fact or myth? Harold Bell Lasseter and his claim of finding a vast gold-bearing reef in Central Australia has continually been surrounded in mystery. Yet his ill-fated death in the Australian outback, where the land is unforgiving to the careless and the foolhardy, is relatively undisputed.
Mutiny on the Bounty: A Saga of Sex, Sedition, Mayhem and Mutiny (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
47.50 AUD
49.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plant ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
23.99 AUD
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Category: Australian History | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...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.
A Democratic Nation: Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925 by David Kemp
57.00 AUD
59.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
A Democratic Nation- Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925 tells the story of the political battle after Federation to achieve unprecedented levels of social and economic equality, while preserving both national independence and individual freedom.As the third book in a landmark five-vol ...Show more
Angels of Mercy by Lynette Ramsay Silver
19.99 AUD
39.99 (50% off)
Category: Australian History
Angels of Mercy: Far West & Far East follows the gripping stories of two different Australiannursing sisters, who overcame the challenging adversities of two very different circumstances.In the 1930s, Marjorie Silver was employed by The Far West Childrens Health Scheme andbecame their first permanen ...Show more