Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more
Bedlam at Botany Bay by James Dunk
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politicians ...Show more
Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe, Vicky Shukuroglou
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Loving Country is a book that inspires ultimate respect for Mother Earth and the role of her custodians. While readers are encouraged to discover the sacred country of Australia in an open-minded and sensitive manner, the intention of this book is to foster communication and understanding between all pe ...Show more
Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3 by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Libera ...Show more
Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and Empire by John Mcaleer; Nigel Rigby
$49.99 AUD
$72.99 (31% off)
Category: History | Series: Britain`s Soldiers (BOYD) Ser.
British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geographic questions, and inspired some of the most influen ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People - Volume 1 by Geoffrey Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to ter ...Show more
Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders by Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath, John West-Sooby
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Encountering Terra Australis traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin, as they travelled to Australia and explored the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Then. Now. Always: Royal Australian Air Force Illustrated History 1921-2021 (HB) by Air Force History Branch
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Royal Australian Air Force has come a long way since its early beginnings in the Australian Flying Corps, an element of the Australian Army. From its birth as a fledgling little brother of the other two services, the RAAF has developed over the years in its elements of raising, training, and sustaining ...Show more
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits: Australia's Most Amazing True Life Stories by Jim Haynes
$25.99 AUD
$29.99 (13% off)
Category: History
From an eccentric musical genius to an escaped convict who ended up Japan, Jim Haynes reveals some of Australia's most amazing, and sometimes unbelievable, true life stories
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more