Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories by National Library National Library of Australia
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA Publications
Stories of migration are very much part of the Australian experience. In most homes in Australia, you will find a bookcase, mantelpiece or shelf with a display of family photos. Intimate galleries chronical the individuals, both young and old, who populate the family tree. Sometimes the images reach bac ...Show more
The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and a complex and controversial legacy debated to this day. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the ...Show more
Australians (Volume 3): Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australians
'A loving history of the Australian people' - Sydney Morning Herald..'.displays historical literacy, and plenty of humanity, empathy and compassion, all qualities rare in our public culture to be cherished when we find them.' - Weekend Australian. As in the two previous volumes of Australians, Thomas Ke ...Show more
Australians: From Eureka to the Diggers: Volume 2 by Thomas Keneally
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australians
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, arti ...Show more
Australians: Origins to Eureka: Volume 1 by Thomas Keneally
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
Australians: A short history by Thomas Keneally
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
Across Great Divides: True Stories of Life at Sydney Cove by Susan E Boyer
26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Across Great Divides, true stories of life at Sydney Cove will appeal to all readers, young, old and in-between, who love to be immersed in a good read, while learning new things. The stories will no doubt make you wonder, what would I have done? Across Great Divides, true stories of life at Sydney ...Show more
Outdoor Games for Today's Kids by Helen Topor 10th
40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A guide for parents, educators and recreation leaders to encourage children in their care to play popular traditional games outdoors as a means of combatting childhood obesity.The games come with easy-to-follow instructions and were inspired by the play of child migrants in Benalla Migrant Camp, Victori ...Show more
'the Best System of Trenches in Australia' - World War I Training Site, Duntroon Trench Warfare and Bombing School, Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve, Canberra by Mark Butz
20.00 AUD
Category: Canberra
History under your feet: This is the story (so far) of one of the most surprising finds in the history of Canberra - a World War I trench system within sight of Australia's Parliament House. Through 1916-17 hundreds of Army officers and senior NCOs from across the country participated in the Trench Warf ...Show more
Murder at Myall Creek: The trial that defined a nation by Mark Tedeschi
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the man who conducted it. In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. The trial created an eno ...Show more
The Honest History Book by Alison Broinowski (Editor); David Stephens (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia - mostly for its impact on our citizens a ...Show more
Ben and His Mates - The War Diaries, Letters and Photographs of Lieutenant Ben Champion 1st AIF, 1915-1920 by Penny Ferguson (Editor)
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Ben Champion was raised in Wahroonga in New South Wales. When the news of the Anzac landing at Galipoli in 1915 came through to Sydney with the huge A.I.F. casualty list which soon followed, Ben Champion's Father reluctantly gave his permission for 18 year old Ben to enlist in the Australian Imperial Fo ...Show more