Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor anyone eager to uncover the stories buried in their bloodline, Ancestors for Australians: How to...

Edition: 28th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped djFrom the primordial caves of prehistoric man to the gilded halls of modern civilization,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionAt a time when the world desperately seeks alternatives to violence, Thomas Weber's Conflict Resolution and Gandhian Ethics presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the annals of solo seafaring, few voyages have captured the world's imagination quite like that of Sir Francis Chichester, who in 1966–67 single-handedly...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom the sun-scorched plains of early colonial settlement to the blood-soaked battlefields of Gallipoli and beyond, An Eyewitness History of Australia presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its origins as a fledgling colonial institution to a titan of Australian academia, A Place of Light & Learning: The University of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the golden age of flight, a handful of daring men and women took to the skies above Australia and forever changed the course of history...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the sun-drenched shores of a newly federated nation to the tumultuous decades that shaped a modern identity, This Fabulous...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of Melbourne's grand Victorian edifices lies a dynasty of builders whose ambition and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWithout Fear or Favour is a meticulous institutional chronicle that documents fifty years of professional evolution, tracing...

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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: This copy of W. L. White’s They Were Expendable (Harcourt, Brace, 1942) belonged to...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the tradition of great Victorian-era biographical portraits, The Young Man from Home chronicles the remarkable life of James Balfour (1830–1913), a...

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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of the most astonishing true stories of survival and defiance ever committed to the page, Papillon chronicles the harrowing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBefore Arthur Phillip ever set sail for Botany Bay, his formative years were shaped by a lesser-known chapter of maritime history —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFrom the goldfields of colonial Victoria to the gleaming towers of modern finance, The House of Were: 1839–1954 chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the dying months of the Second World War, as Allied forces closed in from both east and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn into a traditional Papua New Guinean village at the dawn of the twentieth century, Alice Wedega's life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before Canberra became Australia's capital, the rugged Limestone Plains were home to pioneers, troopers, and the untamed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the fourteenth century, Sir John Mandeville penned one of the most extraordinary travel accounts ever written —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Protective covering over dust jacket (removable)For over a century, the rolling fields and ancient farmsteads of Sussex were alive with the sound of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the handshakes, the club memberships, and the shared school ties lies a invisible architecture of power that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodBehind the notorious epithet lies a woman of extraordinary complexity — and Carolly Erickson's Bloody Mary presents the definitive biographical portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the golden age of Pacific trade, few figures cut as bold a path through the islands of the South Seas as...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA privileged childhood becomes a vivid window into the grandeur and peculiarities of colonial governance in Adelaide Lubbock's People in Glass Houses:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFor a century, Janet Clarke Hall has stood as one of Australia's most distinguished residential colleges, shaping the lives of generations of women at...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War carry the raw, anguished power of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBorn in poverty as Amy Lyon, the daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, Emma Hamilton rose through scandal, patronage, and sheer force of personality to...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerLong before the age of satellites and GPS, brave men charted the unknown...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and controversial figures of the British Empire, General Charles George Gordon — Gordon...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden age of aviation, one man dared to fly where no one had flown before —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the first human who looked up at the stars and dared to ask why, to the brilliant minds who mapped continents,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the darkest years of the Second World War, one Australian airman found a way to bridge the...