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Convict Colony: The Remarkable Story of the Fledgling Settlement That Survived Against the Odds by David Hill
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. ...Show more
The Fair and the Foul: Inside Our Sporting Nation by David Hill
14.99 AUD
Category: Sport
If anyone is qualified to talk about sport in Australia, it's David Hill. In this book, with the benefit of his years of personal experience both playing and working in the sporting world, he vividly narrates its rise in Australia since the end of the nineteenth century, from the first cricket tour of E ...Show more
The Gold Rush by David Hill
22.99 AUD
Category: History
"The fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, ...Show more
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia by David Hill
19.98 AUD
Category: History
The thrilling race of Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their g ...Show more
The Making of Australia: From a Tiny Struggling Convict Settlement to the Remarkable Nation it is Today by David Hill
22.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and acce ...Show more
The Red Poppy (Book & CD) by David Hill
16.99 AUD
Category: Children's
Five minutes...Two minutes....Young soldier Jim McLeod waits in the trenches of World War I for the order to attack the enemy. With him are his friends and Nipper, the messenger dog. When they charge across no-man’s land Jim is shot ... and finds himself face to face with an enemy soldier.A sensitively- ...Show more
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