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.
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
A Never Ending Journey - The Story of Victoria's Mornington Peninsula by Malcolm Gordon; Victoria Grounds (Editor)
49.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
A thoroughly researched and illustrated history of the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, encompassing its history and pre-history, geology, natural systems, landscapes, attractions, modern development, descriptions of its rural and coastal townships and pursuits, and entertaining local anecdo ...Show more
Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt 'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard Flanagan What do you need to know to prosper as ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Growing Up
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
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
Black Summer: Stories of loss, courage and community from the 2019-2020 bushfires by Rowland Michael
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Told by ABC journalists who were on the ground and broadcasting during our worst ever fire season, spearheaded by Michael Rowland The bushfires that burnt across Australia from June 2019 to February
The Devil's Work by Garry Linnell
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the worldHe was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings.Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world.Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years roaming th ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy (eds)
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broade ...Show more