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  • The Undermerchant's Woman

    A Shockingly True Story

    by Robert Kerby ...
    "The year is 1629. Lucretia, the young and very beautiful wife of Undermerchant Boudewijn van der Mijlen, sets sail aboard the Dutch East India Company's newest vessel, the Batavia, to join her husband in Java. Her traveling companions are the scholarly Commander Pelsaert, Captain Jacobsz, who is consumed with hate for Pelsaert, the pompous and self-indulgent Predikant Bastiaensz and the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    by Frank Walker ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen.As he flew over South East Asia towards Vietnam, Captain Barry Petersen struggled to keep an aura of calm. Inwardly he was incredibly excited. Aged 28, highly trained, with experience in anti-communist guerilla warfare, he was about to embark on the ... Read more

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  • The Jerilderie Letter

    by Ned Kelly ...
    Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854 – 1880) was an Australian bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he murdered three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his ... Read more

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  • Van Diemen's Land

    by James Boyce ...
    The acclaimed history of colonial Tasmania'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim FlanneryAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.In this multi-award-winning history of colonial Tasmania, James Boyce shows how the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Walking with the ANZACS

    The authoritative guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front

    by Mat McLachlan ...
    '[Mat McLachlan's] knowledge of the front is comprehensive' - Sydney Morning HeraldA complete guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18.Walking with the ANZACs aims to become the new essential companion for Australians visiting the Western Front. Each of the 14 most important Australian battlefields is covered with descriptions of the battles and Australia’s involvement in ... Read more

    Was $20.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Conspiracy of Silence

    Queensland's frontier killing times

    by Timothy Bottoms ...
    As Europeans moved into new lands in Queensland in the 19th century, violent encounters with local Aboriginals mostly followed. Drawing on extensive original research, Timothy Bottoms tells the story of the most violent frontier in Australian colonial history.'This is an important, well researched book: challenging, compelling and controversial. It is a must read for anyone interested in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories

    by Jim Haynes ...
    The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising.Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000...emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky phenomenon of the mischief-making Guyra Ghost ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • 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

    $4.99 USD

  • Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories

    by Graham Seal ...
    From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends and colourful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. The home-grown and borrowed tales, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Buffalo and Crocodile Hunters of the Northern Territory

    by Caroline Gaden ...
    "The Buffalo and Crocodile Hunters of the Northern Territory" is the story of the men who hunted the feral buffalo and wild crocodiles of the Northern Territory of Australia between the First and Second World Wars and for a few post-war years. They lived a life full of danger as the animals were caught for their hides, so they had to be shot at dangerously close range to prevent damage to the ... Read more

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  • The Victorian Bush: its 'original and natural' condition

    by Ron Hateley ...
    The Victorian Bush: its ‘original and natural’ condition aggregates in a readable way extracts from logs, reports and diaries of Victorian explorers, early settlers, travellers and officials that describe the vegetation and fauna they encountered.The author analyses what he sees are the major ecological processes across south-eastern Australia, including the role of fire. Obviously Victoria today ... Read more

    $8.55 USD

  • Waltzing Matilda

    The secret history of Australia's favourite song

    by Dennis O'Keeffe ...
    Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by our most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as our most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, violence and a triangular love affair. Written at a pivotal time in Australia's history, Waltzing Matilda is as important to Australian culture as events like the Eureka Stockade ... Read more

    $11.49 USD