Heroes by Stephen Fry
$35.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: good
Mortals and Monsters Quests and Adventures Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fl ...Show more
Don'ts for Wives by EBBUTT, BLANCHE
$9.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Don'ts Ser.
Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives are facsimile editions of the original books published by A&C Black in 1913. Each pocket-sized book contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining advice for a happy marriage, which rings true almost 100 years after it was written.The reissued titles are ideal ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler, Kari Gislason
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who se ...Show more
The Silk Roads - A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$27.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Battles That Changed History (HB) by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive 5,000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most famous battles in history, including a foreword from TV presenter and historian Tony Robinson.This military history book takes you on a journey through the battlefields o ...Show more
Battles Map by Map
$59.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Experience the world's most significant battles through bold, easy-to-grasp maps. Includes a foreword by Peter Snow, broadcaster and historian. Covering everything from the battlefields of the ancient world to the bomb-scarred landscapes of World War II and beyond, this book is packed with engrossing ma ...Show more
Don'ts for Husbands by EBBUTT, BLANCHE
$9.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Don'ts Ser.
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Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists by Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark, Philip A. Clarke
$69.95 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator-prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal c ...Show more
Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY
An enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years. In 1835, as he walked the sacred grounds of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations, John Batman wrote in his d ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect ...Show more
The Colony: a History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: General Adult
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blu ...Show more