Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr
39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Round the Bend: The Creation, Destruction by Fire and Recovery of Tambreet Gardens by Esther Leahy
29.99 AUD
66.99 (55% off)
Category: Local History
On Black Saturday, 7 February 2009, uncontrollable bushfires in the state of Victoria, Australia burnt hundreds of thousands of hectares. Over a hundred and fifty lives were lost, more than 1,500 houses were destroyed, entire towns were left unrecognisable. As Tambreet hosts and avid gardeners Sean and ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
The Anderson Mines - Includes Stockholm Tar, Waterloo, the Pride, Knapping's Mines and Kitty Cane- Book 3 by Paoletti's Maps and Videos Pty Ltd (Produced by); Rudi Paoletti (Editor, Illustrator); Andrew Giles (Illustrator, Editor); Jeanette Paoletti (Illustrator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Local History
This publication is primarily based on my finds rather than a detailed historical paper. Decades of research and ground work goes into finding all these sites, and this publication is for those who wish not to pursue such a task, but rather use this as their guide to re-visit and explore the rich histor ...Show more
Australia's Ultimate Bucket List 2nd edition: The Top 101 Places You Should See In Your Lifetime by Jennifer Adams, Clint Bizzell, Emma De Fry
34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This updated and newly designed edition of Australia's Ultimate Bucket List remains the best gift book to inspire your next Australian travel adventure! Authors and Channel Ten Places We Go presenters Jennifer Adams and Clint Bizzell, along with avid traveller Emma De Fry, have once again scoured the c ...Show more
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men by Peter FitzSimons
34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer. In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he ...Show more
The Landy's Dream Group of Mines of Walhalla - Includes Wealth of Nations, Perseverance and Kitty Hawk Plane Crash- Book 4 by Paoletti's Maps and Videos Pty Ltd (Produced by); Rudi Paoletti (Editor, Illustrator); Andrew Giles (Illustrator, Editor); Jeanette Paoletti (Illustrator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Local History
This publication is primarily based on my finds rather than a detailed historical paper. Decades of research and ground work goes into finding all these sites, and this publication is for those who wish not to pursue such a task, but rather use this as their guide to re-visit and explore the rich histor ...Show more
Tiddalick the Frog Who Caused a Flood by Robert Roennfeldt
15.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Picture Puffins Ser. | Reading Level: From 5 To 99
Tiddalick was so thirsty that he drank up all the rivers and billabongs in the land. And the other animals had to find a way to get the water back.
The Story of Australia: First People-1805 by Australian Geographic
27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: The\Story of Australia Ser.
Come with Australian Geographic on a story through time as we explore the early history of our nation, including the First Peoples of Australia and their culture, the arrival of the Europeans and the First Fleet, the development of the penal colony and the spread of European settlement and their documen ...Show more
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza
45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery - to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land ...Show more
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more