St Andrews: A Village Built On Gold by St Andrews P.S.
$22.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Botany Bay and the First Fleet: The Real Story by Alan Frost
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British aut ...Show more
The Last Bushrangers by Mike Munro
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges a police constable and station manager are slain then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Ken ...Show more
Salamaua 1943 by Phillip Bradley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
Between the end of the Kokoda campaign in January 1943 and the start of the New Guinea offensives at Lae in early September 1943, the Australian Army was engaged in some of the most intense and challenging fighting of the war for the ridges around Salamaua. Following the defeat of the Japanese offensive ...Show more
Hell Ship (Audio CD; unabridged; 7 CDs) by Michael Veitch (read by the author)
$27.48 AUD
Category: Australian History
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay: The 1942 Bombing of Broome, and its Tragic Aftermath by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Japanese attack on Broome is the second most deadly air raid on Australia soil in our history and yet it's almost entirely overlooked. On 3 March 1942, nine Japanese Zero planes strafed the small town planning to destroy the aerodrome and American planes. With no notice, the townsfolk could only put ...Show more
World Heritage Sites of Australia by Peter Valentine
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Visitors to Australia marvel when they see the places recognised by the United Nations as World Heritage. From the ancient, pristine temperate rainforests in the south to the massive escarpments and tropical wetlands in the north, they are dazzling in their ecological complexity and the record they offe ...Show more
Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of colonisation by Claire G. Coleman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
'This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts.' In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. ...Show more
Darwin : Updated Edition by Tess Lea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
Razed to the ground four times in its short history, the city of Darwin, Australia, has picked itself up out of the debris to not only rebuild but grow. Darwin has known catastrophes and resurrections; it has endured misconceived projects and birthed visionaries. To write about her home town, Tess Lea w ...Show more