Rose: The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet: Wife, Stowaway and the First Woman to Record her Voyage Around the World by Suzanne Falkiner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dre ...Show more
Brisbane Bookshops by Anne Richards (Editor); Matthew Wengert (Editor); Bianca Milroy (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Anthology of creative non-fiction and historical essays about Brisbane Bookshops from the 1840s to the 2020s.
Transcendence: 50 Years of Unforgettable Moments at the Sydney Opera House by Ashleigh Wilson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A singer overwhelmed by his crowd. A dancer on ice above sea. A teenage girl, later to become a virtuoso conductor, jolted by the sound of a symphony.Two filmmakers exchange vows on their opera set. A photographer hears a Cistercian echo in the sails. And one night, after a Verdi curtain call, an audien ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sag ...Show more
Through Ice & Fire by Sarah Laverick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The wild and desolate expanses of Antarctica have been the setting for many famous exploits and misadventures: a place where every decision has life-or-death consequences. The legendary tales of tragedy and triumph experienced by explorers such as Shackleton, Mawson and Scott continue to inspire to thi ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement towards Voice, Treaty and Truth by Thomas Mayo
$42.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
An important and unique book that takes us into the lives of Indigenous people today, and offers constructive ideas about how we can live together, moving beyond the injustices of the past. This is a book for all Australians. Since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was formed in 2017, Thomas Mayor ha ...Show more
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in the Allied victory in the Second World War. Almost eight decades later, Wizards of Oz finally tells their story. In this fast-paced and compelling book, Brett Mason reveals how two childhood friends from Adelaide – physicist Mark Oliph ...Show more
By Sea and Stars: The Story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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
Should We Fall to Ruin - New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a remote garrison and their battle against extraordinary odds. by Harrison Christian
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: near fine
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as ‘hostages to fortune’, the little-known garrison on Australia’s tropic frontier has been left with no modern equipment, no lifeline to the ou ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery - to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land ...Show more