Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women w ...Show more
Captain Thunderbolts Folly by DONOHOE, JOHN
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
SYNOPSIS- CAPTAIN THUNDERBOLT'S FOLLYHow can it be that Frederick Ward, a master horseman and a good judge of horses, could find himself on a horse run down by a single mounted policeman and shot dead? It was indeed Captain Thunderbolt's Folly!This book examines the many unusual happenings on that fatef ...Show more
Ben Hall's Treasure - The Search for Bushranger Loot by John Donohoe
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A real time and historical search for the hidden loot of Ben Hall, Australia's most prolific bushranger.
Ben Hall's Last Days - The End of the Road for Australia's Greatest Bushranger by John Donohoe
$31.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An account of the last 8 days in the life the bushranger, Ben Hall.It includes a background and a summation of what happened.
Tracy - 50 Years 50 Stories by Derek Pugh (Editor); Richard Creswick (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
50 stories from survivors of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974.Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a s ...Show more
Prospecting for Gold by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson ((various roles), Editor, Designed by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Imprint Classics Ser.
'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.' And so Jack Idriess wrote Prospecting for Gold in 1931. This is the 21st edition and known throughout Australia as the classic self-help manual for would-be prospectors.T ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home by Sam Twyford-Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.Australia has a long cinema history — starting with the world’s first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of Australia’s film talent goes to the United States, looking f ...Show more
The Outback by Boolarong Press
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This collection of short stories about the Outback is the result of the inaugural writing competition for the Outback Writers Festival held in Winton on 21, 22, 23 June 2016.
Horseman of the Outback: Their Spurs and Spurmakers by Don John Edward Corcoran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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
Early Merchant Families of Sydney: Speculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of Empire by Janette Holcomb
$44.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Establishing business enterprise in a tiny, remote penal settlement appears to defy the principles of sustainable demand and supply. Yet early Sydney attracted a number of business entrepreneurs, including Campbell, Riley and Walker. If the development of private enterprise in early colonial Australia i ...Show more
A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories Ser.
Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia ...Show more