Macquarie (HB) by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming the harsh, foreboding penal colony of New Holland into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society. He also help ...Show more
Flashy, Fun and Functional - How Things Helped to Invent Melbourne's Gold Rush Mayor by Sarah Hayes
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Shackled Continent : Africa's past, present and future by Robert Guest
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the last three decades. Why?The Shackled Continent, Robert Guest's fascinating first book, seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Using reportage, first-hand experience and economic insight, Robert Guest takes ...Show more
Beauty Spots- Secret Places Of The by Steenhuis, Luke
$14.20 AUD
Category: Australian History
Cook and the Pacific by John Maynard; Susannah Helman; Martin Woods
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Cook led a scientific expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Tahiti, circumnavigated New Zealand and established that it was two separate islands, and nearly perished when the Endeavour ran aground on the worlds largest coral reef. In 1779, on his third Pacific voyage, he was killed in Hawaii. Co ...Show more
Captain James Cook by Rob Mundle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: very good
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world history. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surround ...Show more
A Shot of History: Attack on Sydney Harbour by Doctor Tom Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal Australian Navy was torpedoed, and 21 sailors died. The midget submarines were hunted down, and two sunk. War had already come to northern Australia, and now ...Show more
The Wreck of the "Batavia" and "Prosper" by Simon Leys
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
In 1629, the Bataviawas wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board surtvived, only to become victims of a visionary psychopath who, with the help of a dozen followers, organised a methodical massacre of the hapless community. Following the wreak ...Show more
The Murder Squad: How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression by Michael Adams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
How the New South Wales Police Force's finest solved murders in one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian history As Australia sank into the darkest days of the Great Depression, a succession of bloody mysteries grabbed headlines and gripped the country. The Hammer Horror, The Bungendore Bones, T ...Show more