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  • A Land Fit for Heroines

    Stories of Pioneering Women on Soldier Settler Blocks

    This book documents the lives of twenty-one women on soldier settler blocks in New South Wales after World War II. Their stories relate how they came to live on virtually virgin land and lived in tents and sheds with no electricity and no running water. They established their homes and worked side by side with their husbands on the farms. At the same time, they brought up their children far from ... Read more

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  • Evil Angels

    The Case of Lindy Chamberlain

    by John Bryson ...
    The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother's worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia.On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sex Lives of Australians

    A History

    Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day.In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Last Explorer

    Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Golden Age of Polar Exploration

    by Simon Nasht ...
    In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history-no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A City Lost and Found

    Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

    by Robyn Annear ...
    “Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for a building 50 years old will be in vain.” —Herald, 1925.The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892–1992). Its famous sign – ‘Whelan the Wrecker is Here’ on a pile of shifting rubble – was a laconic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Chasing Kangaroos

    A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature

    by Tim Flannery ...
    The internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers crafts a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique inhabitants: the kangaroo.Drawing on three decades of travel, research, and field work, Tim Flannery shows us how the destiny of the extraordinary kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it. Along the way he uses encounters with ancient aboriginal cultures ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World War I: The conflict that gave rise to the ANZAC legend

    by Cindy Dowling ...
    This was "the war to end all wars"; a conflict in which 155,000 Australian servicemen were wounded and over 60,000 died. Through the devastation it left behind, it changed the face of much of the Western world and laid the foundations for World War II. Yet this conflict, fought far from Australian shores, also saw the birth of the Anzac legend and led to the emergence of a true "Australian" ... Read more

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  • A Commonwealth of Thieves

    In this spirited history of the remarkable first four years of the convict settlement of Australia, Thomas Keneally offers us a human view of a fascinating piece of history. Combining the authority of a renowned historian with a brilliant narrative flair, Keneally gives us an inside view of this unprecedented experiment from the perspective of the new colony’s governor, Arthur Phillips. Using ... Read more

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  • Old Bucky & Me

    Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake

    by Jane Bowron ...
    On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron had been living in her hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand, when the city was struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, only five months after a 7.1 earthquake. While the first quake had caused damage but no fatalities, the second became the ultimate horror story: entire suburbs were decimated, houses collapsed, hillsides fell away, and people were killed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whitefella Jump Up

    The Shortest Way to Nationhood; Quarterly Essay 11

    Series Book 11 - Quarterly Essay
    In Whitefella Jump Up, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense of being Aboriginal might save the soul of Australia.In a sweeping and magisterial essay, touching on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Australians

    A short history

    A masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.Australians, Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam, gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.Australians: ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Angels in the Outback

    The Australian Inland Mission

    by Max Griffiths ...
    Just before World War I when the Australian outback suffered with the decline of its goldmines and the hard times on its pastoral runs, a young Victorian arrived to see how he could help. The white inhabitants of Central Australia were few, and were rarely if ever visited by clergymen, doctors or nurses. It was the Reverend John Flynn, a young Presbyterian clergyman from Victoria, who set out to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD