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Macquarie (HB) by Grantlee Kieza
$14.99 AUD
$39.99 (62% off)
Category: Australian History
A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming the harsh, foreboding penal colony of New Holland into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society. He also help ...Show more
Bill and Horrie: Australia's Greatest War Horse and War Dog by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Two bestselling stories of Australian animals during wartime, now in one volume.
The Last Bushrangers by Mike Munro
$14.99 AUD
$34.99 (57% off)
Category: Australian History
The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges a police constable and station manager are slain then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Ken ...Show more
Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger. Born into a privileged life in famine-wracked Ireland, Scott's family loses its fortune and is forced to flee to New Zealand. There, Scott joins the local militia and fights as a soldier against the Maori in the brutal N ...Show more
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier by Mark Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginals and convicts in the second settlement in ...Show more
Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
The True Story of Ned Kelly's Last Stand by Paul Terry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Using science, history and family lore to unearth a new understanding of how a legend was made this is the full story of the most famous siege in Australian history - the man and the myth; the people great and small.
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
Salt: Selected Essays and Stories by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. Bruce Pascoe has been described as a 'living national treasure' and his work as 'revelatory'. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected ...Show more
What Ever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head? by Eamon Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History