The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
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
Ten Rogues: The unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile by Peter Grose
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Nabbing Ned Kelly: The Extraordinary True Story of the Men Who Brought Australia’s Notorious Outlaw to Justice by David Dufty
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
David Dufty goes back to the records to uncover the real story of the police officers who pursued the Kelly Gang. This pacey account of the capture of the Kelly Gang reads like a detective story. He lurched through the smoke, his armour glinting in the moonlight, and started shooting. To the weary men ...Show more
Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
Mrs Kelly: the astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother by Grantlee Kieza
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother While we know much about the iconic outlaw Ned Kelly, his mother Ellen Kelly has been largely overlooked by Australian writers and historians - until now, with this vivid and compelling portrait by Grantlee Kieza, one of Australia's most popular biographers.Whe ...Show more
Pioneer Women of the Outback Bush by Isaacs, Jennifer
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
This book is a fascinating insight into the daily lives of women from a variety of backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Chinese, Indian and German woman. Pioneer Women provides a unique portrait of how women set up and ran their remote bush hom ...Show more
James Cook - The story behind the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
HE STORY BEHIND THE MAN WHO MAPPED THE WORLD The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost ma ...Show more