Beersheba Centenary Edition: Travels through a forgotten Australian victory by Paul Daley
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A hundred years ago in October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade participated in what is now regarded as the last great successful cavalry charge. Waving bayonets overhead in the dying light, they raced across six kilometres of exposed ground in Palestine, surprising the well-entren ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the Hangmen and the Underbelly of Colonial Australia by Michael Adams
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A fresh, unique take on Ned Kelly - a fascinating, entertaining and kaleidoscopic look at the society that shaped him in life and death When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to shit-shoveller-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kel ...Show more
The Dogs That Made Australia by Guy Hull
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Hunter. Worker. Legend. The untold story of the dog's role in building a nation. The Dogs That Made Australia pays tribute to the dogs that gave their all for our prosperity: the fearless hounds that saved fledgling colonies from famine; the courageous heelers and tireless collies that powered the rise ...Show more
Arctic Ambitions - Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage by James K. Barnett (Editor); David L. Nicandri (Editor); Robin Inglis (Preface by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Captain James Cook is justly famous for his explorations of the southern Pacific Ocean, but his contributions to the exploration of the northern Pacific and the Arctic are arguably equally significant. On his third and final great voyage, Cook surveyed the northwest American coast in the hopes of findin ...Show more
Snowy River Story by Claire Miller
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
This stirring David and Goliath story tells of the townspeople of Dalgety on the Snowy River, whose grassroots campaign took on the massive power of the Snowy Hydro in an attempt to save their homes, communities and the Snowy River itself from a slow death.
History of 1 Field Squadron Group, Royal Australian Engineers, Svn, 1965-1972 by Brian Florence
$64.99 AUD
Category: History
Past Vietnam War histories have tended to record the sappers' work as peripheral. This book attempts to highlight the skill, ingenuity, and courage they displayed throughout the entire war. It chronicles their experiences-both good and bad-that are based around their operations, with an emphasis on the ...Show more
Australian Voices by Ariana Klepac
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Australian Voices presents a broad social history of colonial, predominantly European, Australian life, focusing on the ordinary and the everyday, through the words of Australians of the time and a handful of visitors. This atmospheric anthology comprises letters and diary entries, memoirs and reminisce ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack - SIGNED by Brenda Niall
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
The Race for the South Pole : In Their Own Words by Roland Huntford
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. 2010, marks the centenary of the l ...Show more
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent ...Show more