Crocodile Attack in Australia by Hugh Edwards
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
When the time comes to attack, the crocodile explodes from below the surface in a whirl of teeth and spray, yellow eyes ablaze moving faster than the human eye can follow. He is rapid enough to catch a bird on the wing, striking quick and deadly as those other reptilian hunters the snakes. The crocodile ...Show more
The Fierce Country : True stories from Australia's unsettled heart, 1830 to today by Stephen Orr
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The Fierce Country holds no malice, but neither pity. It just sits, and bakes, and waits. We do the rest. We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers. Weaken it, and ourselves, when we leave mountains of asbestos to blow away in the wind. Misunderstand it when we see it as nothing more than a resource ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
Great Australian Bush Funeral Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin We're nearing the end of the service and so I step closer in to do the last 'ashes to ashes and dust to dust' bit. Just as I get to the edge of the grave, the soil gives away and in I go. Well, they reckon I was like a kangaroo. I hardly missed a bea ...Show more
Aussie Aussie Aussie by Ben Pobjie
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
If you think you know all about Australia's heroes (and villains), think again. In Aussie Aussie Aussie, Ben Pobjie burrows beneath the mythology to provide an intimate look at the Australians who helped make our nation great - as well as the ones who stopped us from being as great as we could have been ...Show more
Outback Adventures: Tales from the Top End and Beyond by Matt Wright
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Raised in the wilds of Far North Queensland, Papua New Guinea and outback Australia, as a child Matt Wright would catch deadly snakes for fun or lizards and turtles for show and tell at school.Now the star of National Geographic's worldwide smash TV show, Outback Wrangler,is taking us on a wild adventur ...Show more
Through Ice & Fire by Sarah Laverick
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The wild and desolate expanses of Antarctica have been the setting for many famous exploits and misadventures: a place where every decision has life-or-death consequences. The legendary tales of tragedy and triumph experienced by explorers such as Shackleton, Mawson and Scott continue to inspire to thi ...Show more
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia by David Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The thrilling race of Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their g ...Show more
H.M. Bark Endeavour Updated Edition by Ray Parkin
$100.00 AUD
Category: History
Here, in one accessible volume, is Ray Parkin's highly acclaimed and multi-award winning study of Captain James Cook's Endeavour. This incomparable book is a unique account of a great journey-Endeavour's voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770-and a remarkable re-creation of the experience of bein ...Show more
Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger. Born into a privileged life in famine-wracked Ireland, Scott's family loses its fortune and is forced to flee to New Zealand. There, Scott joins the local militia and fights as a soldier against the Maori in the brutal N ...Show more