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The Eighties
The Decade That Transformed Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award
It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America’s Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and...
More Yachting Yarns from South Australia
The tales and history of 10 extraordinary South Australian yachts
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
MORE YACHTING YARNS is great news for South Australians and lovers of all things nautical. This captivating book with its fascinating sea and river stories is a must for anyone with yachting or maritime interests. It traces the history of 10 South Australian sailing vessels from construction...
by Tom Frame
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
When Harold Holt disappeared while swimming off Victoria's Cheviot Beach just before Christmas 1967, Australia was given one of its great and enduring mysteries. The death of Australia's seventeenth prime minister has remained part of popular imagination ever since.
Harold Holt's death had...
The Art of Time Travel
Historians and Their Craft
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space.
In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths...
The Migrants Part I
My new life in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Most Migrants are trying to change their often-oppressed past lives and many manage to do so. Parting from loved ones is never easy, but leave we all did just the same, forging ahead, takings risks, facing and conquering hardships often against innumerable odds, paving the way for uor offspring to...
Burke and Wills
The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller.
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Adelaide : (Australia) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Adelaide : (Australia) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Adelaide : (Australia) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Canberra : (Australia) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Canberra : (Australia) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Canberra : (Australia) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
The Long and Winding Way to the Top
Fifty (or so) songs that made Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
'Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no one should ever know. He does it with intelligence and humour, not to mention an acid wit.' - Jimmy Barnes
Which band is Australia's premier act for drunk men to hug to? Which dance floor smash...
The Best Australian Sea Stories
Our land is girt by sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The deep blue sea has been an endless source of inspiration, wonder and imagination for explorers and writers alike. Australia's history and national character have been defined by the fact that we live on an isolated island continent girt by sea.
The Best Australian Sea Stories is full of...
by Jonathan King
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Great Moments in Australian History presents an exciting collection of stories about the most colourful highlights and heroes of Australia's history. Pioneering a fresh approach, award-winning author Jonathan King dramatises events to bring each moment vividly to life.
Dodge Aboriginal spears...
Australian Desperadoes
The Incredible Story of How Australian Gangsters Terrorised California
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
The Coves - San Francisco's first organised-crime gang - were Australians: men and women with criminal careers in Australia who had come to the US, mostly illegally, during the gold rush. The Coves had come not to dig for gold but to unleash a crime wave the likes of which America had never seen....
The Fatal Shore
The epic of Australia's founding
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
In this bestselling account of the colonization of Australia, Robert Hughes explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today.
Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of...
44 Days
75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
In March and April 1942, RAAF 75 Squadron bravely defended Port Moresby for 44 days when Australia truly stood alone against the...