STORIES OF THE SOUTHSIDE VOL 2 by ROBERTS, BERYL

$17.00 AUD

Category: Queensland History

Closer Look at Salisbury by Beryl

$20.00 AUD

Category: Queensland History

Booze Built Australia

$24.99 AUD

Category: Australian History

Stories of the Southside - Volume 1 by Beryl Roberts

$8.00 AUD

Category: Queensland History

Brisbane Bricks by Virginia Russell (Cover Design by, Designed by, By (photographer)); Joanne Heath (By (photographer))

$45.00 AUD

Category: Queensland History

An ecclectic photographic narrative of brick buildings in Brisbane, Australia, old and new

On Radji Beach by Ian W. Shaw

$24.99 AUD

Category: World War 2 History

When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke. They only made it as far as the waters off Muntok Island near Sumatra. There, Ja panese bombers sank the small ship. Those who survived the sinking drifted for up to three days before making landfall on one of the many beaches on Muntok. A group of about 60 shipwreck survivors, including 22 nurses, gathered at Radji Beach. They voted to surrender to the Japanese rather than slowly starve to death, but the Japanese patrol that found them did not accept their surrender. Instead, it divided the Europeans into three groups and killed them all in turn. The Australian nurses were in the third group, and 21 of them died in a hail of bullets as they walked, abreast, into the sea. Miraculously, there was one survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel, who brought the truth about this appalling atrocity to light, and who went on to experience the internment camps, starvation and disease that took away many of her friends.On Radji Beach tells the story of the 65 nurses from the Vyner Brooke: their service in Singapore and on the Malay peninsula, their desperate voyage to escape capture by the Japanese, and their courage, compassion, ingenuity and fortitude in the unthinkable events that followed. ...Show more

Ten Rogues by Peter Grose

$29.99 AUD

Category: Australian History

From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, incompetents and larrikin convicts of the highest order, Ten Rogues is an unexpected and wickedly entertaining story from the great annals of Australia's colonial history. With the lightness of touch of the master storyteller that he is, Peter Grose brings to irresistible life the story of a small band of convicts who managed to escape the living hell of the Tasmanian penal colony of Sarah Island. Their getaway began by stealing the leaky and untested brig they had helped to build, and then sailing it across the Pacific from Tasmania to Chile with neither a map nor a chronometer. But their story does not begin or end there. From the strong connection between the slave trade and convict 'transportation' to the possible illegality of the whole convict system, Ten Rogues shines a light into some dark and previously well-hidden corners of colonial history. ...Show more

Eccentric Voices - A Scrapbook of Brisbane Cultural History 1965-1995 by Anne Jones (Editor)

$49.95 AUD

Category: Queensland History

16 essays and a timeline of the period 1965-95, illustrated with photos, news clippings and ephemera about Brisbane culture

PUTTING QUEENSLAND ON THE MAP: THE LIFE OF ROBERT LOGAN JACK, GEOLOGIST AND EXPLORER by JACK, FELICITY

$59.95 AUD

Category: Queensland History

Highly regarded in geological circles but still unknown to the general public, Robert Logan Jack was a Scottish geologist who migrated to Australia in 1877. He worked as government geologist in Queensland for almost thirty years and was sent on difficult and perilous expeditions to some of the remotest parts of the continent. It was during this time that he made groundbreaking discoveries that would help advance Queensland's mining and agricultural industries and contribute to the economic development of the colony. Putting Queensland on the Map is the first book to chronicle Robert Logan Jack's extraordinary life and work. Written by his great-granddaughter Felicity Jack, it uses maps, drawings, letters and photographs to offer a fascinating glimpse into Robert Logan Jack's geological expeditions and the social conditions of rural Queensland in the late nineteenth century. ...Show more

Adventures with Agitators by Paul Richards

$30.00 AUD

Category: Queensland History

Adventures with Agitators is a tribute to the resilience, determination, patience and tolerance of the Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders of Queensland. In a series of short yarns about their battles in the justice and political systems, this book exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of the ru ling elite of Australia in pursuing policies of segregation and marginalisation. While Australia pointed the finger at South Africa, it maintained the same policies for our Indigenous peoples. The book is not a history, a biography or a legal or anthropological text. It is an easy read for those wanting to understand the recent past. The author has had the advantage of being privy to their tragedies and dramas - as well as their humour and humanity. The word "agitator" was applied politically and judicially to any of them who sought justice. In a celebrated High Court case involving Percy Neal, Justice Lionel Murphy opined that, without agitators, "there would be no advance towards civilisation." These are stories of the adventures of these brave agitators, to share with people of good heart. ...Show more

All We Coud Do - Queensland Flu Stories 1918-20 by Matthew Wengert (Foreword by, Editorial Coordinator); Pamela Rushby; Margaret Cook; Peter Cook; Edwina Shaw; Andrea Baldwin; Janet Reid; Roz Glazebrook; Samantha Faulkner; Rita Metzenberg; Duncan Richardson (Editor); Nicky Boynton-Bricknell (Editor); Caitlin Morgan (Cover Design by); Michael McDermaid (Cover Design by); Jill Barker; Steve Capelin; Glenn Davies; Brian Davies

$20.00 AUD

Category: Queensland History

Anthology of short stories by various writers about the 'Spanish Flu' epidemic in Queensland. Each story is based on real people in real places. The first stories are about Queenslanders who died of the 'Flu' before the disease reached Queensland--including a soldier from Maryborough who died in France, an Italian from North Queensland who caught the disease in New Zealand and died at Sydney, and a nurse who lost her life while treating soldiers at Fremantle. There are stories from quarantine camps at Tenterfield, Wallangarra, and Lytton, as well as hospitals in Brisbane, Ipswich, and Toowoomba. Some of the stories are about medical professionals, but other stories are about ordinary people doing extraordinary work fighting the dangerous Flu in their own families or communities. The characters embody the courageous spirit with which so many Australians fought the pandemic in their own local areas. The final story is from Thursday Island, one of the last places on earth to suffer an outbreak of the Flu in early 1920. ...Show more

Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of our National Obsession by James Brown

$19.99 AUD

Category: World War 1 History | Series: Redback Ser.

"A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It's right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven't we learned about war, and what might be the cost of our Anzac obsession?" Defence analyst and former army officer James Brown believes that Australia is expending too much time, money and emotion on the Anzac legend, and that today's soldiers are suffering for it. Vividly evoking the war in Afghanistan, Brown reveals the experience of the modern soldier. He looks closely at the companies and clubs that trade on the Anzac story. He shows that Australians spend a lot more time looking after dead warriors than those who are alive. We focus on a cult of remembrance, instead of understanding a new world of soldiering and strategy. And we make it impossible to criticise the Australian Defence Force, even when it makes the same mistakes over and over. None of this is good for our soldiers or our ability to deal with a changing world. With respect and passion, Brown shines a new light on Anzac's long shadow and calls for change. "Longlisted, 2014 John Button Prize" 'Bold, original, challenging - James Brown tackles the burgenoning Anzac industry and asks Australians to re-examine how we think about the military and modern-day service.' -Leigh Sales 'The best book yet written, not just on Australia's Afghan war, but on war itself and the creator/destroyer myth of Anzac.' -John Birmingham '"Anzac's Long Shadow" is refreshing and engaging. It is also frank and no-nonsense. James Brown sets himself apart as a leader in this new generation of Anzacs by asking the hard questions.' -Peter Leahy, Chief of the Australian Army, 2002-08 'One of Australia's most insightful strategic analysts, James Brown, lays bare our cult of Anzac. As our diggers return from war, this book is more necessary than ever before. It's now time for us to remember not only our fallen, but our living.' -Michael Ware, Former CNN Baghdad correspondent. 'Brown, as both an intelligent military theorist and an engaging storyteller, is able to tackle such a controversial issue with humour and candour. A personal, challenging and informative work with] the potential to contribute a great deal to Australia's understanding of our own military service, and how we think about war itself.' -"Readings Monthly" 'Brown is lucid, bright and fierce - exceptional qualities in a writer and, no doubt, a soldier - and he's written an important prelude to our Anzac centenary.' -"Saturday Paper" 'This is the most interesting and original book I have read on contemporary Australian public policy for a long time.' -Judith Brett, the "Monthly" 'It is the combination of academic insight and lived experience that gives this book its particular edge ... A good, a necessary and an important book.' -"Canberra Times" James Brown is a former Australian Army officer, who commanded a cavalry troop in Southern Iraq, served on the Australian taskforce headquarters in Baghdad, and was attached to Special Forces in Afghanistan. Today he is Director of the Alliance 21 project at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He was a military fellow at the Lowy Institute and chairs the NSW Government's Contemporary Veterans Forum. ...Show more