Van Diemen's Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania by Joan Kavanagh
$44.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, wh ...Show more
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than ha ...Show more
Venom: The heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake by Brendan James Murray
$10.00 AUD
$32.99 (69% off)
Category: Australian History
In the early years of the 20th century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites it was the taip ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda: Australia's Accidental Anthem by W Benjamin Lindner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Warrior A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier by Libby Connors
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our warriors were Anzacs. Not all our wars were just.' - John Birmingham, author and columnist In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of deadly ...Show more
What If Histories of Australia: Colonial Settlement: France vs Britain by Craig Cormick
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: What If History of Australia
An amusing look at the alternative paths that Australian history might have taken. The What If histories of Australia imagines a very different history of Australia, where the unexpected happens in unexpected ways. Starting by defining the real histories, the book then looks at possible paths of differe ...Show more
What Will Be Worn - A Mcwhirters' Story by Melissa Fagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Sometimes it seems the most invaluable stories can be found in the unlikeliest of corners. For all who know Brisbane, McWhirters, a once celebrated department store in Fortitude Valley, is an icon. For Melissa Fagan it is also the starting point for this remarkable exploration of her mother and grandmot ...Show more
What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney by Dennis Foley, Peter Read
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore ...Show more
Whatever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head? by Eamon Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Who stole the priceless Picasso from the NGV? Was Errol Flynn a Nazi spy? Did an Australian kill the infamous Red Baron? If you think Australia's history is straightforward, you're dead wrong. This is a land of the strange, the spooky and the unexplained. From the eerie ball of light that stalked a terr ...Show more
Where History Happened: The Hidden Past of Australia's Towns and Places by Peter Spearritt
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Where History Happened' reveals the hidden past of some of Australia's most intriguing towns and places, from mining settlements and whaling stations to monuments and historic houses in our capital cities. The stories that emerge, of remote religious communities, isolated penal colonies, places of Indig ...Show more
Where Soldiers Lie: The Quest to Find Australia's Missing War Dead (HB) by Ian McPhedran
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What drives veterans, military experts and forensic investigators to dedicate years to search for and identify the remains of fallen warriors? What does it mean to the families of the dead to be able to lay them to rest? Over thirty five thousand Australian soldiers and airmen are still listed as Missin ...Show more
Whistler's Bones - A Novel of the Australian Frontier by Greg Barron
$21.50 AUD
Category: Australian History
At the age of fifteen, Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australia's greatest cattle drives - the Durack family's two-year journey from Cooper's Creek, Queensland - to the Kimberley. Stumbling on Charlie's largely u ...Show more