The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australia
'... in world terms, that great arch defined Sydney and for the most part, Australia ...' - Hon. Paul Keating, former Prime Minister of AustraliaWhen it was finally opened in March 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge had taken almost nine years to complete at a cost of sixteen lives and more than six millio ...Show more
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts: A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two.So how ...Show more
Musquito Brutality and Exile: Aboriginal Resistance in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. by Michael Powell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australia
Musquito was an aborigine who was active in the resistance to white settlement in NSW and was exiled to Norfolk Island in 1813. When Norfolk Island residents were moved to VDL he became a well known figure in and around Hobart. He was responsible for organising the Tasmanians against white settlement an ...Show more
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
1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia's Beginnings by Nick Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
For over 200 years Australia's official history has focused on English colonisation and 'discovery', with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the h ...Show more
Australia: A Panoramic Gift Book by Steve Parish
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australia from the Heart Ser.
Captures the magic of Australia its tropical rainforests to alpine peaks, the unique and abundant wildlife, and the colourful, friendly people. Stunning reproductions on fine paper bound into a laminated hard cover.
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
Gotta Love This Country!: Great Stories from Around Australia to Lift Your Heart, Make You Laugh and Puff Out Your Chest by Peter FitzSimons
$19.98 AUD
Category: Australia
A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style.
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
High Country Huts Homesteads: A Celebration of Australia's Classic Mountain Shelters by Craig and Savage Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australia
From the authors of Australias favourite bush camping and 4WD guides comes a striking review of the High Countrys most aesthetic and historic huts. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful full-colour photographs, High Country Huts is a nostalgic collection of abandoned mountain homesteads, shearers huts, tr ...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