Ever Open Door: History Of The Roya by Gregory,Alan
$54.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Ghost Towns Of The Mountain Goldfie by Steenhuis, Luke
$21.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Justus Jorgensen: Conversations & a by Teichman, Jenny
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Edwardian Melbourne in Picture Postcards by Angus Trumble; Alexandra Bertram
$43.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser.
This is a view of Melbourne through the 'eyes' of postcards. It's a highly innovative concept and probably the best visual on the topic. The content ranges from love letters to travel diaries.
Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth by Jeff Maynard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced h ...Show more
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
$26.95 AUD
Category: General History
Now in paperback, this is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the brightest young stars of mainstream history writing. Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glitt ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Byron - Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England by Emily Brand
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: near fine
THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Delectable ... a ravishing family saga' Sunday Times 'Brings to life the colourful characters of the Georgian era's most notorious families with all the verve and skil ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their he ...Show more
A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are by Johannes Krause; Thomas Trappe
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future.Marshalling unique in ...Show more
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano Da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller working at the frontiers of human knowledge, and the epochal shift from script to print that defined the Renaissance The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city' ...Show more