Canberra : Updated Edition by Paul Daley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
An exploration of the city Australians love to hate, this book shows that there is more to the capital of Australia than politics, geometrically designed roads, and mid-century architecture. Canberra is a city of orphans: people arrive temporarily for work, but stay when they discover the unanticipated ...Show more
Sydney by Delia Falconer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
Part memoir, part guide to Sydney, Australia, this melancholic, moving, and funny exploration intertwines novelist Delia Falconer's own stories with the city's historical and literary past, showing how the city has evolved from the 1970s through today. From mad clergymen and amateur astronomers to Indig ...Show more
THE MELBOURNE DREAMING A GUIDE TO THE AB by EIDELSON MEYER
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Hobart : Updated Edition by Peter Timms
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
A journey through Hobart--Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital--this updated edition reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the post-modern world. From Hobart's convict legacy, its sp ...Show more
Perth : Updated Edition by David Whish-Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
Dispelling some of the more unflattering stereotypes of Perth, acclaimed author and Perth native David Whish-Wilson describes how the city strikes a perfect harmony with its own eccentricities and contradictions, presenting a place of surprising beauty—of brilliant light and sand-swept peace—where deepe ...Show more
Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians by National Museum of Australia
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation's origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by Indigenous Australians. Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of C ...Show more
Then. Now. Always: Royal Australian Air Force Illustrated History 1921-2021 (HB) by Air Force History Branch
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Royal Australian Air Force has come a long way since its early beginnings in the Australian Flying Corps, an element of the Australian Army. From its birth as a fledgling little brother of the other two services, the RAAF has developed over the years in its elements of raising, training, and sustaining ...Show more
War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941 by Peter Harmsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly internati ...Show more
MUP: A Centenary History by Stuart Kells
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
"Into Store Date 5/02/2023 Australia’s oldest university press is also one of our best known and most trusted publishers. Founded in 1921 as a bookshop for students at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne University Press was soon publishing important works that contained the best of national scholars ...Show more
Apres la Guerre: Anzac Stories 1919 - 1939 by John Ramsland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
What really happened to the ex-servicemen in Australia when they returned to civil life?The truth of their stories in peacetime is as shocking as the war they faced. In fact, the line separating the living from the dead was, at times, not clear at all.Many soldiers returned to celebrations, such as the ...Show more
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of food restrictions and unfair punishments. Bligh's remarkable journey back to safety is well documented, but the fates of the mutinous men remain ...Show more
Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man in the World by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
He's all but been lost from history but once upon a time, Bert Hinkler, a small, unprepossessing man from Bundaberg, was feted as one of the most daring aviators in the world. Mussolini's favourite pilot, Hinkler was an adventurer who along with early pioneers flew single-handed across countries, contin ...Show more