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
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
Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science by Jane Carey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
If asked to name an Australian woman scientist from the past, very few could. Let’s change that.Histories of Australian science largely overlook women. Their absence gives the impression that, until recently, there were no Australian women scientists. But this is far from true: women formed a much large ...Show more
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent ...Show more
Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3 by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Libera ...Show more
The Colony: a History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian 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
Flashy, Fun and Functional - How Things Helped to Invent Melbourne's Gold Rush Mayor by Sarah Hayes
$40.00 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
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
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
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