The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe - Or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped by James D. Bulloch; Philip Van Doren Stern (Introduction by)
$46.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Modern Library War Ser.
The author shares his personal experiences working for Confederate President Jefferson Davis overseas in an effort to acquire arms and ships from London for the Confederate navy.
Europe: A Natural History by Tim Flannery
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Battles Map by Map by DK
$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
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe' Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year This is the scarcely believable - and wholly tru ...Show more
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier by Mark Dunn
$32.95 AUD
Category: HISTORY
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginals and convicts in the second settlement in ...Show more
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe, Vicky Shukuroglou
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Loving Country is a book that inspires ultimate respect for Mother Earth and the role of her custodians. While readers are encouraged to discover the sacred country of Australia in an open-minded and sensitive manner, the intention of this book is to foster communication and understanding between all pe ...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
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-veteran journalist and son of an A ...Show more
Up Against the Night by Justin Cartwright
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
A gratifyingly unsound psychological odyssey . . . Cartwright destabilizes the novel's placid surface with aftershocks of historical tragedies. - The New York Times Book Review Frank McAllister has long since dropped Retief as his middle name, but the legacy of his family's history proves harder to shak ...Show more
One Wild Song by Paul Heiney
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
When Countrywise presenter Paul Heiney's son Nicholas committed suicide aged 23, Paul and his wife, Times columnist Libby Purves, were rocked to the core. Nicholas had been a highly gifted promising young man, albeit he had struggled to keep his head above water at times as severe depression slowly drag ...Show more