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  • From Cook to Convicts

    A Voyage of Adventure, Mayhem and Discovery

    by John Darkin ...
    Series series Little Red Books
    In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions: to observe the transit of Venus and to find and chart the mythical "Great Southern Land". He succeeded in both tasks, despite he and his crew facing great hardship and danger, to complete one of the great voyages of exploration. But ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Eureka: The story of Australia's most famous rebellion

    by Jill Blee ...
    On 3 December 1854 a bloody battle between gold miners, soldiers and police raged for fifteen minutes at the Eureka Lead in Ballarat. But this brief conflict, which had been brewing for years, would have momentous consequences overturning the accepted social order and bringing democracy to Victoria. EUREKA introduces you to the people and events that shaped this key moment in Australias history. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Australia's Most Notorious Convicts: From thieves and bushrangers to murderers and cannibals

    by Barbara Malpass Edwards ...
    Thousands of convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, some managed to escape incarceration and went on to achieve notoriety in their new land. A few tried to invent a Robin Hood reputation, taking the side of the poor settler against those in authority. Some committed crimes so heinous they were both feared and despised by the general population. Their lives were desperate, their fate ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Australia's Greatest Disasters: The tragedies that have defined the nation

    by John Miller ...
    Australia is a land of extremes where searing heat and devastating floods can both take their toll. It is also a land of vast distances, leaving it vulnerable to calamaties at sea, by rail and in the air. AUSTRALIAS GREATEST DISASTERS charts the events that have caused not only tragic loss of human life, but also economic and environmental devastation. From Cyclone Tracy and the Ash Wednesday ... Read more

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  • Australia's Great Explorers: Tales of tragedy and triumph

    by Denis Gregory ...
    The often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to, and it proved a daunting obstacle to settlement. However, a few brave and at times foolhardy men were determined to prove themselves equal to the challenge. AUSTRALIA'S GREAT EXPLORERS looks at the tragedies and triumphs of men such as Wentworth and Lawson, Hume and Hovell, Burke and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Outback Stations

    by Evan McHugh ...
    'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperback trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. And grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. And my country, Australia.'This is big country, the outback, home to the largest cattle and sheep stations in the world. Yet few of us know what goes on ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Outback Australia: True Stories - Vol. 2

    by Matt Flynn ...
    Living in the wilder parts of Australia has its challenges.These are the true stories of one person's journey from Australia's suburbs to the remote northern Outback, and then to remote rural Tasmania.It is a story of deadly snakes, bush drumming, killer bicycles, Tasmanian tigers, and barramundi fishing.Compiled by Matt Flynn, a former Northern Territory journalist who also publishes fishing and ... Read more

    $5.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Australian Outback Police Stories

    by Bill Marsh ...
    Series series Great Australian Stories
    Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES.'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...'Boasting the biggest beats in the world -- some as large as France -- Australia's outback police have seen it all: natural ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daughter of the Territory

    by Jacqueline Hammar ...
    An epic story of love, adventure and survival in the wilds of the Northern Territory.Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline's childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin. With the outbreak of World War Two, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education.Returning to her beloved ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Batavia

    from the author of The Opera House, Ned Kelly and Mutiny on the Bounty

    by Peter Fitzsimons ...
    Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Girt

    The Unauthorised History of Australia

    by David Hunt ...
    Series Book 1 - The Unauthorised History of Australia
    Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia...In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.Mark Twain wrote of Australian history: 'It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies ... but they are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hell Island

    by Matthew Reilly ...
    A Scarecrow novella from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Jack West Jr series and new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now.It is an island that doesn't appear on any maps. A secret place, where classified experiments have been carried out. Experiments that have gone terribly wrong.Four crack special forces units are dropped in. One of them is a team of Marines, led by Captain Shane ... Read more

    $2.72 USD