Bound for Australia: A Guide to the Records of Transported Convicts and Early Settlers by David T. Hawkings
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Bound for Australia is the essential guide to the records kept in Britain of those who were sent there as punishment or who went to start a new life, and will be an invaluable tool for any family historian who discovers an ancestor amongst their number and who wants to trace their antipodean relatives. ...Show more
Floating Prisons: Convict Voyages to New South Wales 1823-37 by Anne McMahon
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Most people think of Australia's convict past as decidedly English. Anne McMahon tells the story of the Irish prisoners roped into the British transportation scheme. Poverty, civil unrest and overcrowded prisons in Ireland from 1823 to 1837 led to thousands of men being sentenced to transportation to Au ...Show more
Haunted Australia: Ghosts of the Great Southern Land by J. G. Montgomery
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Australia has a dark side embedded in the landscape, deserts, convict-built gaols, museums, public houses, and civic buildings. It has a harsh history of brutality and cruelty based on a convict past, so there is little wonder it is haunted. Find here over 150 ghostly locations covering the Australian C ...Show more
I Once Met a Man - R. M. Williams by R. M. Williams; John Howard (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Understand, then, that these chapters are concerned with the spirit of men and women from whom something of worth has shone out to make them worthy of record. You will note that the book is not of deeds, achievement, great honour; just that indefinable something that has no other name in our language bu ...Show more
On the Sheeps Back by Axiom Publishing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australia
It is great to see a book put together with stories directly from the mouths of people who have been in the industry for many years. Their stories are not the tales of fishermen but of fact, about the characters who for years made up the shearing industry.
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History
Dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth and economic devastation: we feel we understand drought and yet there is more to this story. Australias long history of drought has goaded people to adapt and respond creatively. This book explores the way people have lived and worked with drought from the nineteenth ...Show more
Amazing Grace: Great Australian Bush Priest Stories by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Great Australian stories of faith and friendship in outback Australia, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh - bestselling author of Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories and Great Australian CWA Stories. 'The term "Bible bashing" took on new meaning in our household ...Mum used to suffer from ...Show more
Bruce Postle: Australia by Bruce Postle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
For more than five decades, multi-award-winning press photographer Bruce Postle captured significant moments in Australian life. In Australia, Bruce Postle captures the places, people and characteristics that make Australia unique. From the sunburnt centre to the roaring surf, charismatic heroes ...Show more
Kings in Grass Castles) CD) by Mary Durack
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Classic Ser.
"'Cattle Kings' ye call us, then we are Kings in grass castles that may be blown away upon a puff of wind..." - Patrick Durack, 1878. When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia. ...Show more
Stories That Changed Australia - 50 Years of Four Corners by Sally Neighbour
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
A collection of articles from a who's who of Australian journalism, this book marks 50 years on air for the ABC's current affairs flagship program. Structured around themes of Politics, Crime and Corruption, War and Terrorism, Immigration and the Environment, this book will chart the development of some ...Show more
ALL ABOUT AUSTRALIA by Australian Geographic Staff
$4.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: All About Ser.
Home to the oldest culture in the world and many unique plants and animals, Australia is an amazing place. Come and explore it with us.