Migrants - The Story of Us All by Sam Miller
26.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph 'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator 'Timely and empathetic: a rare combination on this most controvers ...Show more
Dear Mutzi: A story of love, escape and finding the forgotten by Tess Scholfield-Peters
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Harry Peters — formally Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi — was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry’s parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps. This story, of forced migration, assimilation, loss, resilience ...Show more
Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
39.95 AUD
Category: General
A history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia's relations with Indigenous people--what happened between us, how we learnt to forget and, finally, how we came to confront the truth about our past and build a movement for reconciliation.
Land of Opportunity - Australia's Post-war Reconstruction by Graeme T. Powell
20.00 AUD
Category: General
In 1942 the Australian Government established the Department of Post War Reconstruction, charged with planning and coordinating a national program encompassing rehabilitation and retraining of returned servicemen, full employment, social welfare, housing and town planning, public works, transport, and e ...Show more
Captain Cook Was Here by Maria Nugent
39.95 AUD
Category: General
DoP May 2009, Australia 234x156mm 208pp Hardcover This book is a dramatic and lively account of the encounters between Captain Cook, his crew and the Indigenous people of Australia during the Endeavour's first landing at Botany Bay, on Australia's east coast in 1770. These encounters were marked by pois ...Show more
Mindful Eye, Playful Eye - 101 Amazing Museum Activities for Discovery, Connection, and Insight by Michael Garbutt; Nico Roenpagel; Frank Feltens
29.99 AUD
Category: Activities
101 imaginative practices will engage your senses, open your mind, and transform your museum experience Switch off your phone, take a deep breath, and prepare for adventure. Mindful Eye, Playful Eye invites readers on a thoughtful journey through museums, with 101 practices designed to nurture the d ...Show more
Lasseter's Diary - Transcribed with Mud-Maps by Harold Lasseter; Tom Thompson ((various roles), Editor)
19.95 AUD
Category: General
Harold Bell Lasseter had always claimed he had found an immense reef of gold hundreds of miles west of Alice Springs. In 1930, with Australia in the grip of Depression, a privately funded expedition led by Fred Blakeley, accompanied Lasseter in an attempt to relocate the reef. Blakeley left Lasseter at ...Show more
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
34.99 AUD
Category: General
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more
A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics & Pagans by Jeffrey B. Russell, Brooks Alexander
29.95 AUD
Category: General
Witchcraft has always been a fluid and intriguing belief system that has enchanted and sometimes terrified humanity. Now in its third edition, A History of Witchcraft has established itself as the authoritative history of witchery and the occult. Beginning with magic in the ancient world, Jeffrey B. Rus ...Show more
The Snowy: A History by Siobhán McHugh
20.00 AUD
Category: General
The Snowy - A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was ...Show more
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
15.00 AUD
Category: NLA General
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history by Hugh Tranter
29.99 AUD
49.99 (40% off)
Category: NLA General
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra ...Show more