Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a tiny coral island less than half a mile long. A b ...Show more
Australia Under Attack: The Bombing of Darwin 1942 by Douglas Lockwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The morning of 19 February 1942 saw the grim face of war on Australian shores for the first time as a Japanese task force attacked Darwin. A correspondent for the Melbourne Herald at the time of the bombings, author Douglas Lockwood witnessed the event with his own eyes.
Great Australian Journeys by Graham Seal
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating collection of some of Australia's most dramatic journeys from the 19th and early 20th century: epics of exploration, survival and tragedy, stories of mystery and romance, and of discovery and loss.
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre by Lyndall (EDT) Jane (EDT); Ryan Lydon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Marking its 180t ...Show more
The Last Bushrangers by Mike Munro
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges a police constable and station manager are slain then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Ken ...Show more
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking - The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically-important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
Fortunate Voyager: The Worlds of Ninian Stephen by Philip Ayres
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
One life, many roles: soldier, brilliant barrister, High Court judge, Governor-General, Australian diplomat, mediator in Northern Ireland, member of the first war crimes tribunal since Nuremburg and Tokyo, head of UN and Commonwealth missions to crisis zones from Cambodia to Burma to Bangladesh, Sir Nin ...Show more
Great Expectations Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia by Patricia Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Many Maps: Charting Two Cultures: First Nations Australians and European Settlers in Western Australia by Bill Bunbury; Jenny Bunbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart ...Show more