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30 Days on Australia's Railways: Our Diary of September Journeys by David Burke
$14.95 AUD
Category: Motor Books
Our diary of September journeys explores moments in the history of Australias biggest railway and, beyond State borders, tells of its influence on tracks, trains and travel. Standard gauge figures as the common thread. Starting with Federations great achievement, the gauge of New South Wales is chosen f ...Show more
Running Out of Steam & Catching Up With Diesels by David Burke
$29.95 AUD
Category: Motor Books
This is a wonderful history of the steam era coming to an end and the rise of diesels. Using contemporary advertising material, timetables, photographs, and other printed ephemera, and combined with primary source material, the author has created a nostalgic journey of the railways and those who worked ...Show more
The Body at the Melbourne Club: Bertram Armytage, Antarctica's Forgotten Man by David Burke
$7.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Bertram Armytage, son of a wealthy squatter, a popular sportsman who rowed for Cambridge, was the first Australian-born member of an Antarctic expedition. An expert horseman, he was given charge of the ponies in Ernest Shackleton's great 1907-1909 expedition, narrowly escaping the jaws of killer whales. ...Show more
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