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Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers
Author: Meg Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes...
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture
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Survival in Singapore: The triumph and tragedy of Australia's greatest
SURVIVAL IN SINGAPORE is a gripping account of an untold story of Japanese-occupied Singapore, and a testament of courage, sacrifice and the resilience of the human spirit. 'Wonderfully evocative writing,...
Whispering Death: Australian airmen in the Pacific War
In Whispering Death , Mark Johnston, one of Australia's leading experts on World War II, explains vividly how more than 130,000 Australian airmen fought Japan from the Pacific War's first...
Australia: A history by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott with a
How an ancient land became a great democracy. 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative ' Geoffrey Blainey, historian Australia is one of...
I Heart Koalas
Author: Lizzie Preston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Fall in love with colouring koalas in this new addition to our I Heart Colouring series. Packed full of...
The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the...
An Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert Island
A South Seas classic since 1966, this is the story of one New Zealander brave enough to do what we have all now and then dreamed of doing - live...
A Bastard of a Place
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Terra Australis
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim...
Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance - The Bathurst War, 18221824
Author: Stephen Gapps Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ** Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, NSW Regional and Community History Prize ** ** Shortlisted, Les Carlyon Literary Prize 2022...
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution
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Mau Moko: The World of Maori Tattoo
Award-winning and best-sellling, Mau Moko is the closest there has ever been to a 'complete' book on moko. 'Very likely to become the definitive work on the subject . ....
Convict Colony: The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds
The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations...
1788
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The Palace Letters: The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam
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The Bible in Australia: A cultural history
Author: Meredith Lake Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 *Winner of the Nonfiction Award 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature* *Winner of the 2019 NSW Premier's History Award: Australian History...
Devil Been Walkabout Tonight: The Death Of Burke & Wills At Cooper's
This book focuses on the last three months of Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills, and John King on Cooper's Creek. The original expedition which set out in August 1860...
The Fatal Shore
'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...
Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious
A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until...
True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture
Author: Terri Janke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 *Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: Indigenous Writers' Prize, presented biennially* Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius - nobody's...
The Strength of a Nation: Six Years of Australians Fighting for the Nation and Defending the Homefront in World War II
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The Dig Tree: the Story of Burke and Wills: The Extraordinary Story of the Burke and Wills Expedition
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Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell
In the Trenches of Hell. The story of the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers -...
The Battle of the Generals: MacArthur, Blamey and the defence of Australia in World War II
'Roland Perry shows the true picture . . . enjoyable, clearly argued, comprehensive, and highly readable.' - Michael McKernan, Australian Book Review 11 March 1942: The Japanese have stormed the...
The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1976 - 1989
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions...
Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man In The World
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Gough Whitlam: His Time
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The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New
The much-anticipated second instalment of Geoffrey Blainey's history of Australia's people - his most ambitious work to date - that completes Australia's story from the Gold Rush to the present...
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...
Max Dupain: A portrait of the new landmark biography of Australia's
From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic...
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia
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The Commonwealth Of Thieves
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Life and Adventures - 1776-1801: John Nicol, Mariner
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Don't Take Your Love to Town
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The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills
Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he...
The Making of Australia: From the author of 1788, The Gold Rush and
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build...
Great South Land: How Dutch Sailors found Australia and an English Pirate almost beat Captain Cook ...
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The Oxford Companion to Australian History
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Illustrated History of Australia
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Australians at War
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Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the
'Impostor ', 'greedy' and 'incompetent' - Edmund Hammond Hargraves was beloved by few and reviled by many more. Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward...
Australians Volume 3: Flappers to Vietnam
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On the Home Front
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The Spirit of the Digger
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Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.' Sydney Morning Herald On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between...
Australians at War: A Pictorial History: 2008
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The Lost World of the Kimberley: Extraordinary Glimpses of Australia's Ice Age Ancestors
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