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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...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
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...
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...
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...
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 Passion of Private White
From the bestselling author of The Bush , the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land - a...
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...
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet
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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 . ....
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its ways of life. 'Marvellous Melbourne' symbolises the achievements of Australian urbanisation...
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...
1788
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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...
Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
Winner of the Prize for Australian History in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2012; The History Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards 2012; the Victorian Prize for Literature 2012;...
Australia's Greatest Stories: True Tales, Legends and Larrikins
Some of the world's oldest stories are told beneath Australian skies. Master storyteller Graham Seal takes us on a journey through time, from ancient narratives recounted across generations to the...
Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man In The World
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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...
Manning Clark's History Of Australia
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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...
Gough Whitlam: His Time
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Best Australian Ghost Stories: Spine-chilling tales of hauntings,
Have you ever seen, heard or felt something that cannot be rationally explained? Australia is troubled by the departed spirits of convicts, bushrangers, drovers, nurses and miners. People have seen...
Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli
The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War...
Start Digging, You Bastards!: Australian and New Zealand forces'
'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back,...
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963
Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner...
Aboriginal Australians: A history since 1788
'The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in Richard Broome's typical lucid and imaginative style. This is an important work of great scholarship, passion and imagination.'...
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...
Illustrated History of Australia
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A New Voyage Round the World
A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero
Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements uncover the extraordinary story of one of Australia's greatest military leaders. Tongerlongeter is an epic story of resistance, sorrow and survival. Leader of the Oyster...
Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 69
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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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Drought Country: The Dry Times That Have Shaped Australia
Droughts have lurked behind Australia's major nation-shaping moments from European settlement at Port Jackson to Federation. They have caused catastrophic damage to Aboriginal, colonial and modern societies and, of course,...
Front Pages That Shaped Australia (Lifetime)
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Sydney Cove, 1788: In the Words of Australia's First Settlers - The True Story of a Nation's Birth
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New City
In the summer of 1888-89, professional photographer Charles Bristow Walker ventured outside his studio into the streets, and captured the splendour of Melbourne at its peak. For over a century...
Australians at War: A Pictorial History: 2008
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Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River
Yarra Birrarung- Artists, Writers and the River is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Yarra Birrarung- Artists, Writers and the River is an illustrated history of life on...
The Lost World of the Kimberley: Extraordinary Glimpses of Australia's Ice Age Ancestors
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A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon's Australia
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The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Sydney Experiment
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First to Damascus: The Story of the Australian Light Horse and Lawrence of Arabia
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The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent
This is what a history of Australia looks like when it has Indigenous perspectives at its heart. For over 65,000 years, people have made this continent their own through language,...
She and Her Pretty Friend: The hidden history of Australian women who
'another a piece of the puzzle that is unearthing women's stories from the past ... a beautifully told history' - Books+Publishing A joyous look at the history of lesbian and...
Design in Australia: 1880-1970
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Exploring a wide range of design experience, this publication is an investigation of design issues spanning almost 100 years of Australian history. The author draws on poets, painters, educators, critics,...
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on The Aboriginals
A striking and compelling book reclaiming history by a renowned Indigenous visual artist. In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences,...
Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli
The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War...