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“peter curson”

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  • Deadly Encounters

    How Infectious Disease Helped Shape Australia

    by Peter Curson ...
    Although written from an Australian perspective this book offers a broader insight into how infectious diseases spread, how they influence human life, and how we should react to such disasters.Like many countries in the world, Australia has had to reckon with epidemics and pandemics for the last 250 years, and it has continually struggled to understand their origins. This book provides an ... Read more

    $13.64 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Time of Terror: the Black Death in Sydney

    by Peter Curson ...
    This book is about how Bubonic Plague arrived and spread through parts of Australia in the period 1900-1925. In particular it concentrates on the epidemic of Plague which affected Sydney in 1900 and in the following years. The book examines the impact of Plague on Sydney’s population and in particular how medical and governmental authorities struggled to come to grips with what Plague really was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Border Conflicts in a German African Colony

    Jacob Morengo and the untold tragedy of Edward Presgrave

    by Peter Curson ...
    The story of a young Australian adventurer, Edward Presgrave, who enlisted in an irregular unit in the Boer War and stayed on in the Northern part of the Cape Colony to fight alongside Jakob Morengo and the Nama peoples in their epic guerilla war against the Germans inGerman South West Africa, or present day Namibia.It records the adventure, sacrifice, deception and betrayal touching on major ... Read more

    $10.13 USD

  • Exile of Fenrir - Limited Edition

    by Peter Curson ...
    “We were only five when the gods looked at us in fear.” Fenrir is speaking of him and his siblings. As the children of the trickster Loki, they have good reason to be feared. However, this is not the reason the gods of Asgard fear them. Fenrir, Jormungand, and Hél are some of the few shapeshifters in Norse Mythology. Fenrir has the ability to shapeshift into a great wolf and is capable of taking ... Read more

    $0.73 USD

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  • Girt Nation

    The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3

    by David Hunt ...
    Series Book 3 - The Unauthorised History of Australia
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  • The Ferals that Ate Australia: The fascinating history of feral animals and winner of a 2022 Whitley Award from the bestselling author of The Dogs that Made Australia

    by Guy Hull ...
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  • Cholera

    The Victorian Plague

    by Amanda J Thomas ...
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    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leviathan

    The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney

    by John Birmingham ...
    An electrifying, epic history of the city of Sydney as you have never seen her before.'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.'Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow history. ... Read more

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  • The Drovers

    by Evan McHugh ...
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  • A Shorter History of Australia

    by Geoffrey Blainey ...
    A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians.After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events that have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport; the suspicion of the ... Read more

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  • Canberra

    by Paul Daley ...
    Series series The City Series
    Canberra, Australia, is a city of orphans. People arrive temporarily for work, but stay when they discover the unanticipated promise and opportunity Canberra has to offer. An exploration of the city Australia loves to hate, this book shows that there is more to this capital than politics, geometrically designed roads, and mid-century architecture. From the lake and its forgotten suburbs—traces of ... Read more

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