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  • Voyages to the South Seas

    In Search of Terres Australes

    by Danielle Clode ...
    Series Book 154 - Untapped
    While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna.Lapérouse and Labillardière, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge.This is their story—deeply researched and richly imagined by zoologist and award-winning science writer ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Future in Flames

    by Danielle Clode ...
    Series Book 155 - Untapped
    Fire has shaped the Australian landscape and the lives of Australians for thousands of years—and will continue to do so as the climate changes. For all our advances in prevention and prediction, planning and communication, bushfires keep claiming our lives and our homes. How can we avoid another Ash Wednesday or Black Saturday?Danielle Clode has lived in the bushfire danger zone and studied the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Krakatoa

    The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

    by Simon Winchester ...
    The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Biggest Estate on Earth

    How Aborigines made Australia

    by Bill Gammage ...
    Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rose: The extraordinary story of Rose de Freycinet: wife, stowaway and the first woman to record her voyage around the world

    by Suzanne Falkiner ...
    The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love.In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dressed in men's clothing and slipped secretly aboard his ship the day before it sailed on a voyage ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dark Emu

    Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • 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 ...
    Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmareWinner of the 2022 Whitley Award, for a book about invasive species zoology.Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna. But a little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession and brought with it the foreign animals that now dominate the country's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Discovery of Jeanne Baret

    A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

    by Glynis Ridley ...
    The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire.Jeanne Baret, Commerson’s young mistress and collaborator, was ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Tambora

    The Eruption That Changed the World

    by Gillen D’Arcy Wood ...
    A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruptionWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano’s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide ... Read more

    $15.89 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

    $4.99 USD

  • Captain Cook

    by Vanessa Collingridge ...
    A uniquely woven story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives. Captain Cook, best known for his heroic voyages through the Pacific Ocean, is brought to life in vivid detail. We follow his humble beginnings as the son of a farm labourer, through his convention-shattering treatment of the indigenous groups he met on his travels, and then onto his final tragic voyage which ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill

    by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios ...
    A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD