Peter Good - Kew's Gardener with Matthew Flinders on HMS Investigator by Alex S George and David T Moore
55.00 AUD
Category: History
Peter Good was one of a remarkable team assembled by Joseph Banks for the voyage of the HMS Investigator, captained by Matthew Flinders, to survey the coast of New Holland in 1801-03. It also included botanist Robert Brown, botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer and Landscape artist William Westall. Good pers ...Show more
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ and their bushranging brethren are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
The Clarke Bushrangers - A Clash of Cultures. Second Edition by Lawson
35.00 AUD
40.00 (12% off)
Category: History
An analysis of the accusations of murder and robbery.
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: History
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Athens by PLUTARCH
35.00 AUD
Category: World | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu ...Show more
Jimmy Sharman's Boxers: Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe by Stephen McGrath
32.99 AUD
Category: History
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his u ...Show more
Queanbeyan - City of Champions by Overall, Nichole
49.00 AUD
Category: Canberra
Photography and narratives of Queanbeyan for its 175th anniversary.
How James Became King: The True Story of James 'King' O'Malley by Brian O'Malley
49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
King' O'Malley is known to history as a 'larrikin' and maverick politician, member of the first Australian Federal Parliament and Federal Minister, whose political career spanned two decades. Arriving from America in the late 1880s he quickly drew attention through his public shenanigans; his theatrical ...Show more
Ring the Chief Justice - The Quirky Adventures of an Australian Journalist in South Africa by John Lawrence
39.95 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
International journalist John Lawrence takes the reader at kaleidoscopic speed through high drama and rib-tickling humour as he relives nearly twelve years of adventures in sub-Saharan Africa. His racy memoir swings from west coast to east coast, with a detour to Mauritius, as he vividly describes the e ...Show more
A Good Cossack by Kavunenko, Nina
32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
An Australian writer seeks to learn about the life of her Ukrainian father and the faraway place he called home. Born in 1916, he lived through the upheavals of collectivization and found himself amongst the Enemies of the People deported from the villages in 1930. How he survived in Stalin's totalitari ...Show more
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
36.99 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more