The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five ...Show more
Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica by James C. Hamilton
$75.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Two hundred and fifty years ago Captain James Cook, during his extraordinary voyages of navigation and maritime exploration, searched for Antarctica - the Unknown Southern Continent. During parts of his three voyages in the southern Pacific and Southern Oceans, Cook 'narrowed the options' for the locati ...Show more
Back Roads #2: The Scenic Route by Heather Ewart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia's inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV's Back Roads has taken us across Australia, through scorched deserts, along sapphire coasts, up breathtaking mountains and over gentle, roll ...Show more
Under the Rainbow: The Life and Times of E.W. Cole by Richard Broinowski
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Under the Rainbow is the life story of E.W. Cole, a colourful and much loved figure of 19th century Melbourne. Best remembered for his Funny Picture Books, his sense of the absurd and his marketing genius, his wonderful arcade was the first 'department store' in Melbourne, replete with a live orchestra, ...Show more
Lasseter's Last Ride - An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
With Foreword by Herbert Basedow, M.D., B.Sc., author of The Australian Aboriginal, extracts from Lasseter's Diary and Letters and photographs of the 1930 Expedition. Morning Post (London) - "Perhaps the greatest of Australia's real life epics." Otago Daily Times (NZ) - "One almost finds it difficult ...Show more
Hudson Fysh: The extraordinary life of the WWI hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings By the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biographies of John Monash, Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and Henry Lawson, this is a fascinating, lively and th ...Show more
Portrait of Australia: Best Stories from 30 years of Australian Geographic by Australian Geographic
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian
For 30 years Australian Geographic journalists have revealed the rich diversity of a nation. From schoolyards to parliament and the outback to the ocean, they have reported on Australia and Australians, both ordinary and extraordinary, going about their daily lives. Within these pages are photographs of ...Show more
100 Weirdest Tales from Across Australia by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springi ...Show more