Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Chasing the Sunshine by David Burke
$34.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Details the story of one of Queensland's most loved and most eventful rail services, the Sunshine Express, which travelled from Brisbane to Cairns from 1935 to 1953, and includes many historical photographs of the train, and the locations that it visited. In telling this story, the book follows the cons ...Show more
City in Masks - How Brisbane Fought the Spanish Flu by Matthew Wengert; Caitlin Morgan (Cover Design by, Designed by, Editor)
$15.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Narrative history of Brisbane's experience during the 'Spanish Flu' epidemic in 1919. Non-fiction for a general audience. Research funded by Brisbane City Council (Lord Mayor's Helen Taylor History Research Award).
Civilising Brisbane by Duncan Richardson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Three Colonial Women who changed the face of a city. In the second half of the 19th century, Diamantina Bowen, Sister Ellen Whitty and Eliza O'Connell battled indifference and prejudice to improve health care, the arts and education in Brisbane. Crossing the sectarian divide, they often worked together ...Show more
Cobb and Co - Coaching in Queensland by Deborah Tranter
$14.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History
In this book, author Deborah Tranter traces the rise and decline of Australia's legendary coaching company. For more than 70 years, Cobb & Co. coaches and horses travelled over millions of kilometres of unmade outback roads. Through the recollections of the people who build, drove, serviced and used ...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
Grave Tales: True Crime by Goltz Helen & Adams Chris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History
In cemeteries throughout Australia, victims and their perpetrators rest in the same earth. But Grave Tales: True Crime reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places.
Haunted Ipswich - Ghosts of the Heritage City by Jack Sim
$22.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History | Series: Ghost Trails Ser.
Kambek-Reconnecting Collections by Kiri Chan (Editor)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History