The Squatters: The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers by Barry Stone
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For the early settlers who came from crowded cities and long established villages, it must have been extraordinary to find you could pack your belongings onto a bullock dray and head off to rural grasslands out of the reach of meddlesome authorities. They could just mark out a parcel of land, bring in s ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
BLACKPOOL HIGHFLYER-TRADE by Andrew Martin
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Jim Stringer Ser.
It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farther down the tracks; it lies directly in their path. Ful ...Show more
The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor by Ali Gripper
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary the story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world's medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest and most isolated people.
Birth of Melbourne by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery of gold, the city was transformed almost overnight into 'marvellous Melbourne'. And yet, as Tim ...Show more
Barney Greatrex: From Bomber Command to the French Resistance by Michael Veitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter. A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. Bomb ...Show more
Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
Molecular Red - Theory for the Anthropocene by McKenzie Wark
$22.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other. Wark explores the implication ...Show more
A World on Fire: The Epic of the British in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
$35.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY
'Amanda Foreman's magnificent book provides a completely fresh perspective on the first great modern conflict. Weaving together a vast panoply of people and events, it dramatically brings alive this extraordinary period.'ANTONY BEEVOR A World on Firetells, with extraordinary sweep, one of the least know ...Show more
Great Bush Stories - Colourful Yarns and True Tales from Life on the Land by Graham Seal
$36.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colorful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through Australian history and folklore, entertaining and appalling in equal measure. Graham Seal has gathered classic and little-known stories from the time when mos ...Show more
Alas, for the Pelicans!: Flinders, Baudin and beyond
$34.95 AUD
Category: HISTORY
In 1802 a Frenchman and an Englishman famously encountered each other off the southern shores of 'Terra Australis'. The voyages of discovery of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders opened the way for the increasingly rapid invasion and colonisation of the Australian continent. This collection of essays, ...Show more
True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia by Paul van Reyk
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Foods and Nations Ser.
Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities. It describes how food produ ...Show more