Settlers Under Sail by Donald Ernest Charlwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Commissioned by the Victorian (Australia) Government's History Advisory Council to commemorate, in 1978, the centenary of the wreck of the Loch Ard, this book celebrates the era of sailing ship immigration to Australia and tells the story of the famous Loch Ard. It contains many fascinating photos and s ...Show more
The Wreck of the Sailing Ship 'Netherby'A Miracle of Survival by Donald Ernest Charlwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The Wreck of the Sailing Ship Netherby is the story of an 1866 shipwreck on the western coast of King Island, in southern Australia. It tells of a near miracle, vividly related by three different participants. Here was a ship with 413 emigrant passengers and a crew of 38, impaled by night on serrated re ...Show more
The Vanished Land: Disappearing dynasties of Victoria's Western District by Richard Zachariah
$34.95 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons.This melancholy exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by di ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Victorian Railways: The Spirit of Blue & Gold by NICK ANCHEN
$99.95 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Victorian Railways The Spirit of Blue & Gold explores a bygone era, from the days when the Victorian Railways was considered crucial to the fortunes of the state and when the railways was far more than just a transport business it was a great railway family, where employees were treated as valued me ...Show more
Abalone Pioneers: The Untold Stories of the Victorian Western Zone Divers by Rhonda Whitton; Liz Doran; Harry Peeters
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Abalone Pioneers is the Australian story of the divers, deckhands, researchers and processors who established and developed the zone's abalone industry, from the amateur fishermen of the 1950s and the hazy crazy tribe of 'scruffy longhairs', who were attracted by the hedonistic lifestyle and fantastic p ...Show more