Horseman of the Outback: Their Spurs and Spurmakers by Don John Edward Corcoran
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Aust. History
This is an extremely well researched work which will be treasured by all horse riders. It is a very thorough account of Australian spurs and the bush blacksmiths like Fred Gutte who designed his on Wave Hill Station, but is is much more that that. If offers a romantic folklore of the horsemaen who used ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
34.99 AUD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: Aust. 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
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Aust. History
FLINDERS brings to life the fascinating story of this exceptional maritime explorer - from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel imprisonment by the French on Mauritius for six long and harrowing years; the heartbreaking separation from his ...Show more
Gudinski - The Godfather of Australian Rock by Stuart Coupe
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Aust. History
Known to many as GODinski, Michael Gudinski is unquestionably the most powerful and influential figure in the Australian rock'n'roll music business - and has been for the last four decades. Often referred to as 'the father of the Australian music industry', he has nurtured the careers of many artists - ...Show more
Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War by Roland Perry
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Aust. History
'Compelling and wholly absorbing... among the most remarkable Australians of his time? Bob Carr, Australian General Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German High Commands of the First World War failed to gain ascendancy after four years of unprecedented human ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Aust. History
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Aust. History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have m ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Aust. History | Reading Level: very good
"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
Power - Platon by Platon & David Remick
4.99 AUD
39.99 (87% off)
Category: Warehouse Specials
From one of the world's most exciting new photographers and the editor of world-renowned New Yorker magazine, Power is an extraordinary portrait of political power at the highest level. Especially commissioned by the New Yorker magazine, Platon has photographed over 100 members of the United Nations. Pr ...Show more
Amazing Facts About Australia's Early Explorers by Steve Parish
14.20 AUD
14.95 (5% off)
Category: Aust. History | Series: Amazing Facts
It seems incredible that Australia's early explorers, who stumbled across a huge continent filled with so many natural wonders, didn't at first realise what an important discovery they had made! However, I guess many of us, who first began to learn about Australia's past in history class, probably also ...Show more
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