Great Australian Outback Nurses Stories by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Stories and memories that capture the experience of nursing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories and Great Australian Police Stories. With hearts as big as the outback, rural and remote nurses are a dedicated and gutsy ...Show more
Many Maps: Charting Two Cultures: First Nations Australians and European Settlers in Western Australia by Bill Bunbury; Jenny Bunbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart ...Show more
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet by David Hill
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Set against the backdrop of Georgian England with its peculiar mix of elegance, prosperity, progress and squalor, the sto ...Show more
Kidman The Forgotten King by Jill Bowen
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
As a barely literate yough of 13, Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history. During his lifetime he acquired a legendary reputation both at home and abroad. This is the story of hi ...Show more
A Million Wild Acres: 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest by Eric Rolls
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. By popular demand from a number of libraries and institutions, Hale and Iremonger will be producing a hardcover edition of Eric Roll's A MILLION WILD ACRES in a very short run of 300 copies. This will be a very useful Christmas gift for the serious reader of Australian history ...Show more
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre by Lyndall (EDT) Jane (EDT); Ryan Lydon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Marking its 180t ...Show more
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
$23.99 AUD
Category: History
FLINDERS brings to life the fascinating story of this exceptional maritime explorer - from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel imprisonment by the French on Mauritius for six long and harrowing years; the heartbreaking separation from his ...Show more
Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather - The Era of the Australian Airline Hostess by Prudence Black
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Air hostesses took to the skies in the 1930s, proud and excited to have the most glamorous job in the world. This was a job like no other-filled with adventure, shiny new technology, and work that was thrilling, demanding and exhausting. Young women flocked in droves to be measured, weighed, and squeeze ...Show more
Wreck of the Barque Stefano off the North West Cape of Australia in 1875
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A grandson recounts the story of his grandfather's experiences as a shipwrecked sailor on a barren cape of Australia, where he and another survivor almost starved to death before being rescued by Aborigines.