Ballarat Views by Dorothy Wickham

$16.99 AUD

Category: Australia

A pictorial history of the City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, including Grand views, city buildings, Sebatopol, Ballarat east, Wendouree and Eureka inlcluding many beautiful photographs never before published.

JAN VENNIK THE DUTCHMAN AT EUREKA by DAVIS

$14.95 AUD

Category: Australia

Back Roads: The Scenic Route by Heather Ewart

$39.99 AUD

Category: Australia

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 ing plains. It has shown us the rugged landscapes, the resilient communities and the extraordinary individuals who make a life in those areas outside the big cities. In this book, we capture in vivid colour some of our favourite people and places. Full of glorious photos that show us the spirit, purpose, difficulties and humour of outback life, this book is a tribute to the surprising characters, the rarely told stories and the sometimes beautiful, sometimes strange places that exist along the back roads of our extraordinary country. ...Show more

Ballarat Clarendon College One Hundred and Fifty Years by phil roberts

$50.00 AUD

Category: Australia

One Hundred and Fifty Years - History

Ten Delightful Tales: Merry Christmas from Ballarat by Doug Bradby

$9.99 AUD

Category: Australia

Black Summer: Stories of Loss, Courage and Community from the 2019-2020 Bushfires by Michael Rowland (Editor)

$34.99 AUD

Category: Australia

Told by ABC journalists who were on the ground and broadcasting during our worst ever fire season, spearheaded by Michael Rowland The bushfires that burnt across Australia from June 2019 to February

The Mallee: A Journey Through North-West Victoria (HB) by Adam McNicol (Text by, Photographer); Erin Jonasson (Photographer); Phil Campbell (Designed by, Photographer); Andrew Chapman (Photographer); Noel Butcher (Photographer); Melanie Dove (Photographer); Heather Ewart (Foreword by); Jaime Murcia (Photographer)

$59.99 AUD

Category: Australia

Between 1880 and 1930, a series of schemes brought thousands of settlers to Victoria’s Mallee region. At the same time, a number of railway lines were constructed through the area, with towns constructed approximately every 10 miles. Now, almost a century after the settlement schemes ended and the depopulation of the Mallee began, a team of Australia’s best rural documentary photographers, along with writer Adam McNicol, who grew up in the Mallee town of Manangatang, retrace the railway lines to see what remains. The result is a stunning photo book, containing over 150 full colour images. 'The Mallee: A journey through north-west Victoria' is a portrait and celebration of the small communities that dot north- west Victoria and the people who call them home. The book, which has a foreword by 'Backroads' presenter Heather Ewart, captures life in the small towns of the Mallee and on the farms that surround them. One particular focus is the growing interest in the area from tourists, who in recent years have flocked to the Silo Art Trail and Lake Tyrrell, breathing new life into a region becoming famous for its brilliant sunsets and hospitable locals. ...Show more

Narrow Ways Lanes in the CBD of Ballarat

$25.00 AUD

Category: Australia

Mining Mud and Medals by Di Campbell (Research by); Damien Finlayson; Simon Jacks; Janice Newton; Clare Gervasoni (Index by); Yvon Davis ((various roles)); Michael Taffe 10th

$33.00 AUD

Category: Australia

Members of the Australian Mining Corps were commonly known as 'tunnellers'. They worked continuously in wet and muddy conditions, under constant enemy threat in often narrow tunnels, under no man's land.The Ballarat Electorate has enjoyed a long history connected with mining and many men with mining exp ertise enlisted during WWI, to join the Australian Mining Corps. Mining Mud & Medals, seeks to highlight the role of the men who served in the Australian Tunnelling Corps during WW1, especially those from the Ballarat Electorate. Mining Mud & Medals is a project of the Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc ...Show more

Gold Off To The Diggings by Geoff Hocking

$39.99 AUD

Category: Australia

Through Hocking's easy to read narrative style, we learn of the rollicking days on the goldfields - from California to Australia. Each chapter tells a different story - bushrangers on the diffings, hordes of Chinese also seeking riches under the Southern Cross, to the women of the goldfields including t he notorious Lola Montez and her spider dance. There are times of unrest. The Great Meeting of Diggers, The Red Ribbon Rebellion and Eureka - the diggings saw the birth of the Australian character of mateship, hardship, seperation from loved ones, triumph over adversity, and for many, riches beyond their wildest dreams. Gold led to the economic boom times in Australia and saw Melbourne become the wealthiest city in the world. After his two earlier books on gold, this greatly expanded edition by Hocking, with its lively prose and over 300 illustrations provide us with a most outstanding and beautiful resource for anyone with an interest in early Australian history and the magic of gold. ...Show more

The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Adam Courtenay

$29.99 AUD

Category: Australia

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 former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for thirty-two years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive.The outside world finally caught up with Buckley in 1835, after John Batman, a bounty hunter from Van Diemen's Land, arrived in the area, seeking to acquire and control the perfect pastureland around the bay. What happened next saw the Wadawurrung betrayed and Buckley eventually broken. The theft of Kulin country would end in the birth of a city. The frontier wars had begun.By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was, The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter is a fascinating and poignant true story from Australian colonial history. ...Show more

Major Thomas: The Bush Lawyer who Defended Breaker Morant and Took on the British Empire by Greg Growden

$19.99 AUD

Category: Australia

Opinion is still sharply divided on whether Breaker Morant and his Australian co-defendants were criminals who got what they deserved, or scapegoats used by the British Empire. Major Thomas, the bush lawyer drafted in at the last minute to defend them, is invariably depicted either as a hero or an incom petent fool. Now, for the first time, Greg Growden attempts to unravel the truth about the lawyer and soldier who returned from South Africa a broken man. Before the Boer War, Major Thomas had been a pillar of his community. He was a published poet, newspaper proprietor, lawyer and decorated soldier, but defending Breaker Morant became the defining episode of his life. The former 'King of Tenterfield' endured a stunning fall from grace, slipping into bankruptcy and imprisonment. Thomas ended his days as an eccentric recluse, his life ruined by the ignominy and frustration of finding himself on the wrong side of history. ...Show more