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The Catalpa Rescue

The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history

by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019

The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote...
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Commandos

Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II

by Frank Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Amazing revelations and extraordinary exploits of Australia's elite secret warriors. There was something unique about Australians and New Zealanders in war that prompted World War II Allied commanders to turn to ANZAC soldiers, sailors and airmen to carry out the most dangerous and virtually...
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by James Knight
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

The fascinating lives and turbulent times of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson - the two men who wrote Australia's story. Today most of us know that Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson were famous writers. We know about Matilda, Clancy of the Overflow and the Man from Snowy River;...
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by Sarah Jane Butfield
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure  Find out what it takes to keep the Glass Half Full, as challenging life events including grief, loss, PTSD and devastating floods, test this expat step-family to their limits.  After enduring divorce and numerous child custody battles, Sarah Jane...
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The Bible in Australia

A cultural history

by Meredith Lake
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached,...
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by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham, Charles Rawlings-Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Discover the freedom of open roads with***Lonely Planet*** ***Tasmania******Road Trips,***your passport to uniquely encountering Tasmania by car. Featuring 4 amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit...
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Curtin's Gift

Reinterpreting Australia's greatest prime minister

by John K Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005

John Curtin, prime minister during the darkest days of the Second World War, is remembered as the reluctant hero of Australian politics. In the Australian story he is the recovering alcoholic and the accidental prime minister who saved Australia from invasion by Japan, overrode the opposition of Churchill...
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by Frank Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003

By denying the Tampa and its cargo of asylum seekers permission to dock at the nearest landfall of Christmas Island, Australia signalled that it was dramatically closing its national borders. Trading on fear, and using mandatory detention in the Pacific, John Howard and Philip Ruddock effectively...
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by Mark Aarons
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

In early 1965 at age thirteen, Mark Aarons came under the “adverse notice” of ASIO, which opened volume one of his nine-volume security file. Mark was following in the footsteps of his father, Laurie Aarons, whose 85-volume file commenced in the early 1930s when he was fourteen. For four generations...
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by Bob Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012

Outback Survival is a timeless, practical run down on everything you need to know to survive in the outback. Bob Cooper's incredible bushcraft skills have been developed through more than 25 years of experience in Australia's harsh outback. He has picked up tools of survival from the experiences...
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In God They Trust?

The Religious Beliefs of Australia's Prime Ministers 1901-2013

by Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Most of Australia's leaders since Federation believed in God. Some were serious Christians and very few were indifferent towards religion. In this timely and original book, Roy Williams examines the spiritual life of each of our Prime Ministers from Edmund Barton to Julia Gillard. He explores the ways...
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by Peter Veth
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It also...
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Birds of Australia

A Photographic Guide

by Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Nick Leseberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014

Australia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning color photographs, including many photos of subspecies...
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Australians

A short history

by Thomas Keneally
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016

Australians, Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam, gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Australians: a short history brings...
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