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I See No End To Travelling: Fascinating Accounts From The Personal Journals Of The Early Australian Explorers And Pioneers
$30.00 AUD
Author: Ann MillarBinding: HardbackPublished: Bay Books, Sydney, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsI See No End To Travelling: Fascinating Accounts From The Personal Journals Of The Early Australian...
Matthew Flinders: On The Victorian Coast April-May 1802
$20.00 AUD
Author: K. A. AustinBinding: HardbackPublished: Cypress Books Melbourne, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the meticulous observations and...
Father San Vitores: His Life, Times, And Martyrdom
$25.00 AUD
Author: Emilie G. JohnstonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical biography chronicles...
The Young Lincoln
$30.00 AUD
Author: Esther MeynellBinding: HardbackPublished: Dymocks Book Arcade & Chapman & Hall, 1944Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Unusual boards (crocodile skin?), gilt lettering with light wear. Sturdy...
A Knockabout Priest: The Story Of Father John Brosnan (SIGNED)
$50.00 AUD
Author: Tom PriorBinding: HardbackPublished: Hargreen Publishing Company, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Inscribed by the subject. Boards in good condition. Minor rubbing on edges. Sturdy...
No Words for This
An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes. From the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist like her father. He...
Gone Bush
The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond...
Louis Pasteur and the Power of Observation
Louis Pasteur's passion for laboratory experiments led to major, life-saving changes in medicine. His research targeted unusual problems from the spoiling of wine to disease in French silkworms. His wide-ranging...
The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival
THE CHART-TOPPING MEMOIR ______________________________________________________________________________________ 'This memoir is one of the smartest, funniest books I've read about love in a long, long time' - RED 'illuminating' METRO Haley McGee is in...
With Our Toes in the Dust
$10.00 AUD
These are the escapades of a little lost white tribe of South Africa.Idealistic visionary hippie alternatives who search for justice, truth, freedom and spiritual enlightenment in a country at the...
Waddling to War on LST 834
Waddling to War is the story of a skylarking sailor"s two years in the "Navy during World War 11. The focus is on the experiences aboard LST (Landing Ship Tank)...
Part-Time Working Mummy: A Patchwork Life
Hundreds of thousands of fans flock to the Part-Time Working Mummy page for its heartfelt posts, honest accounts of complicated family life and its appeal to 'bring parents together to...
Seams Unlikely: The Inspiring True Life Story of Nancy Zieman
$12.00 AUD
Millions of women learned to sew while watching the inimitable Nancy Zieman on public television's, Sewing with Nancy. Many of them have Googled phrases like "stroke Nancy Zieman" in an...
It's Always Possible: Transforming One of the Largest Prisons in the
$100.00 AUD
Motivation, persistence and perseverance are the distinct traits of determined and dedicated individuals who can make things happen. It's always possible, even when the task is awesome -- transforming the...
Shirley, Goodness and mercy
$12.00 AUD
Heartwarming, honest and very funny - the story of a young boy growing up in a close and quirky 'coloured' community under apartheid. In 1962, at the age of five,...
Matisse: Father & Son
The relationship between Henri Matisse and his son, the influential art dealer Pierre Matisse (1900-1989), is at the heart of this biography. Closely involved with great art from an early...
Field Notes from Death's Door: A journey of horror, hope and healing,
This Is Going to Hurt meets Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) - a rollicking, smart and self-aware memoir about the extremes of the human experience, the limits to compassion,...
The Treasures of Leonardo Da Vinci
$30.00 AUD
Born in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is probably one of the world's best-known artists. This beautifully illustrated project looks at the major events in his life. Packed with information about...
You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, America
A searing and hilarious commentary on woke culture in America from the legendary comedian, actor, and Emmy-nominated SNL writer. Rob Schneider's childhood in the San Francisco Bay area with parents...
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi
The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**...
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The Times The entire...
Hazard Spectrum: To The Limit - And Beyond With Britain's Top Test
' Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL 'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITE On 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable'...
Just Yannis
The massacres of the Sierra Leone Civil War, the bloody struggle for liberation during the Arab Spring, the plight of the Kurdish refugees in the Gulf War and the ongoing...
My Name is Mahtob: The Story that Began in the Global Phenomenon Not
Two decades ago, Not Without My Daughter (a global phenomenon made into a film starring Sally Field) told of the daring escape of an American mother and her six-year-old child...
Einstein in Love
At its height, Einstein's marriage to Mileva was an extraordinary one - a colleague and often fierce adversary, Mileva was brilliantly matched with the scientific genius. Dennis Overbye seeks to...
SAS Sniper: The Rob Maylor story
Royal Marine...SAS marksman...Elite soldier... Rob Maylor has seen action in the world's most dangerous combat zones. From East Timor and Iraq to Afghanistan, he has been places where no-one else...
Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The Story of Tom Kruse
This is a truly classic Australian story that captures part of our history that is vanishing. Tom was the mailman on one of the best known and loneliest tracks in...
Driven: A Diplomat's Auto-biography
The memoir of Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski DRIVEN is a memoir by distinguished Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski, with a particular focus on the cars he has loved and...
The Von: Stories & Suggestions from Australian Golf's Little Master -
If he were alive this year, Australian golfing legend Norman von Nida would have celebrated his 100th birthday on St Valentine's Day. Sadly, Queensland lost one of its favourite sporting...
PossAbilities: A Creative Life
PossAbilities is about finding the magic in whatever you do. Encompassing fourteen creative career incarnations, this grounded memoir includes bittersweet ruminations on uncertainty and trust. You'll find heartfelt inspiration to...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of...
Admiral Arleigh Burke
$20.00 AUD
Told by a historian who was chairman of naval history at Annapolis for twenty years, here is the first full chronicle of World War II's last living naval hero--Thirty-one Knot...
The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s:
Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the red wine still flowed, the cafes...
Keeping on Keeping on
$25.00 AUD
A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On , follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful...
Selected Essays
'Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' - John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the...
Strange Country: Travels in a Very Different Australia
As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes...
Rex: My Life
"Rex" is the BLOCKBUSTER autobiography of one of Australia's best-loved and most colourful personalities Rex Hunt. First published in 2002, it has established itself as one of Australia's biggest-selling memoirs....
For the Love of a Child
But the story is not hers alone. Betty describes her many encounters with others who have tried to escape similar situations, telling their dramatic stories.
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
$12.00 AUD
One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review , New York 's "Vulture", The Week , Bustle, BookRiot An NPR Best Book of...