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
Captain James Cook by Rob Mundle
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world history. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surround ...Show more
God Before Gugeri Luggers, Trucks & Water Bores & Other Kimberley Stories by GUGERI MICHAEL
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The Gugeri family have been landmarks in the Kimberley for nearly a century. This book follows four generations of life in the north, from pearling, carrying, Anna Plains station, water boring, Cockatoo Island, oil drilling, wool carting, the Underworld, rockets, fishing, and many incidents and characte ...Show more
The Last Anzacs by Tony Stephens and Stephen Siewert
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
More than 75,000 Australians and New Zealanders went to war on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. They shared a horror, but their courge and deeds on a balltlefield of tragic errors and unimaginable suffering helped a legend, the legend of the Anzacs. The Anzacs lost more men on the Western Front that the ...Show more
Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather - The Era of the Australian Airline Hostess by Prudence Black
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Air hostesses took to the skies in the 1930s, proud and excited to have the most glamorous job in the world. This was a job like no other-filled with adventure, shiny new technology, and work that was thrilling, demanding and exhausting. Young women flocked in droves to be measured, weighed, and squeeze ...Show more
Monash and Chauvel by Roland Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Monash and Chauvel is a gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most crit ...Show more
Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders by Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath, John West-Sooby
$42.00 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.
Mariners Are Warned! : John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843 by Marsden Hordern
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
" John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office in 1837 to survey and chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline. He was the last Royal Navy surveyor to hold such a roving commission as had Matthew Flinders and Phillip Parker King before him. The voyage lasted six years and h ...Show more
Island Nurses by Leonie Howie
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson live and work on remote Great Barrier Island-so called because it faces the full brunt of the wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 kilometres away. With a population of about 1000, no reticulated electricity, no ATM machine, no street lig ...Show more
Wreck of the Barque Stefano off the North West Cape of Australia in 1875
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A grandson recounts the story of his grandfather's experiences as a shipwrecked sailor on a barren cape of Australia, where he and another survivor almost starved to death before being rescued by Aborigines.