Moreton Bay Queensland in World War II - The Story of Civilian and Military Life in Coastal Towns in the Area Between Caloundra and Point Lookout During 1939 - 1945 by Ron Donald
$27.50 AUD
Category: Queensland History
History of wartime at Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia during WW2. Details defensive positions on Bribie Island, Moreton Island, and North Stradbroke Islands. The book details the wartime history, and the lives of troops stationed in the Moreton Bay area which included United States Marines and Austra ...Show more
Toots: Woman in a Man's World by Donna Vawdrey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Toots Holzheimer, a hard working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960's to 1990's across some of Australia's most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula. Toots delivered freight to the northern tip of Australia for over thirty years, servicing her own trucks, loading them by hand ...Show more
Brisbane Bookshops by Anne Richards (Editor); Matthew Wengert (Editor); Bianca Milroy (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Anthology of creative non-fiction and historical essays about Brisbane Bookshops from the 1840s to the 2020s.
Grave Tales: Queensland's Great South West by Helen Goltz, Chris Adams
$32.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events are captured in 'Grave Tales: Queensland's Great South West'. Visiting cemeteries from Ipswich to Augathella, 'Grave Tales: Queensland's Great South West' tells the stories of everyday people who willingly or unwillingly, were participants in events that ...Show more
The Brisbane River Guide: Heritage Trail with the CityCat by David Gibson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Have you ever been on the CityCat and wondered what heritage lies beneath the buildings that you are looking at along the river? This book explores the Brisbane River Heritage Trail one section going upstream and the other one downstream. Let the book be your guide.
Tommy Ryan and the Birth of Labor by Patrick Comben
$25.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History
A political biography of Thomas Joseph (Tommy) Ryan, and the beginnings of the Australian Labor Party during the 'Shearer's War' in Queensland in the early 1890s. This was the first Labor/Labour party in the world. Tommy Ryan's parliamentary career was short-lived, and he returned to shearing. The detai ...Show more
A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods by Margaret Cook
$32.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followe ...Show more
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
Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland by Constance Campbell Petrie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Queensland classic edition, originally published by Watson Ferguson & Company in 1904. These stories, first appeared in the “Queeslander” in the form of articles, many of which referred to the Aboriginal People. These articles were then recorded and published by his daughter, Constance Campbell Pe ...Show more
When Chairmen Were Patriots by Elizabeth Fysh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Fergus McMaster started with nothing and with his brothers built a sprawling pastoral empire in western Queensland. Following his return from World War I, a chance meeting outside Cloncurry with Lieutenant Paul McGinness took him on a new path. With Lieutenant Hudson Fysh, the three men followed the ...Show more