World Heritage Sites of Australia by Peter Valentine
59.99 AUD
Category: 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
Library of Dreams : Treasures from the National Library of Australia by The National Library of Australia
4.99 AUD
Category: Art
Library of Dreams interprets and celebrates a diverse selection of treasures from the rich and varied collections of the National Library of Australia. The book examines over 50 of the most popular items, page by page, in the Library's collections, including: James Cook's 'Endeavour' journal; William Bl ...Show more
Ice Bound: The Australian Story of Antarctica by Joy McCann
49.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Australians have long been tempted by the lure of the ice to the south, and our Antarctic stories are filled with mystery, exploration, adventure, ground-breaking science, tragedy, and triumph.The Antarctic region was taking shape in the Australian imagination long before humans ventured into the high s ...Show more
Australia's Dogs by Katherine Kovacic
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Australians love dogs — big dogs, little dogs, fluffy couch potatoes and hardy working dogs. In fact, we have one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world. Australia’s Dogs is a celebration of the dog in Australian life, exploring the human-canine bond, and reflecting on the crucial role playe ...Show more
Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845 by Philip Jones
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
George French Angas (1822–1886) was one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding colonial artists. As a young man in the 1840s he journeyed to Australia and New Zealand, where he excelled at capturing the minute detail of plants and people, objects and landscapes. The bush was his studio — he captured th ...Show more
Captain Thunderbolt's Recital by Jane Jolly
24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Age range 4+Captain Thunderbolt was known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’. He didn’t like violence, was always polite, and even paid back most of the money he stole. In Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital, author Jane Jolly retells the true tale of one of the bushranger’s most famous robberies with comic effect ...Show more
Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation by Tim Fischer
39.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
If you are passionate about steam locomotives, or know someone who is, then Steam Australia is the perfect companion. Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating and grand story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia's history. This book is so much more than a h ...Show more
Bold Types: How Australia’s First Women Journalists Blazed a Trail by Patricia Clarke
29.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II. These were independent, adventurous women who ventured far and wide in search of news, relevance and equality.Together, stories of women from Anna Bla ...Show more
100 Books from the Libraries of the National Trust by Yvonne Lewis, Tim Pye, Nicola Thwaite
19.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The\National Trust Collection
Spanning the 8th to the 21st centuries, 100 Books from the Libraries of the National Trust includes illuminated medieval manuscripts; the Trust's oldest atlas, with maps of the ancient world; a volume from Henry VIII's library; a book inscribed in blood; an Arabic manuscript on horsemanship; a very earl ...Show more
Australian POWs: The untold stories of WWI by David Coombes
12.00 AUD
Category: Military
"Comrades in distress we were, and it was now that one felt the existence of a brotherhood that establishes itself in circumstances of this kind ... A few of the men are very dejected, and appear to be losing all interest in themselves, their habits and practices not being approved by the majority. In s ...Show more
The Journals of Captain Cook by Captain James Cook
27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals am ...Show more
1947 - When Now Begins by Elisabeth Asbrink; Fiona Graham (translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: History
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age -- the one we call now. This shift does not happen overnight, from one day to the next; instead, the world vibrates for a number of years. People try to find their way back to homes that are no longer there, or on to an u ...Show more