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Forbidden History by John Dudley Aldworth 9780473352646
RRP: $50.68$36.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473352646Author John Dudley AldworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint Truthful History PublicationsPublisher Truthful History Publications -
A Distant Field Of Murder: Western District Frontiers 1834-1848 by Jan Critchett 9780522845273
$34.34Jan Critchett challenges some of strongly held opinions about Aboriginal culture: that their only shelters were frail mia-mias, that they were nomadic and had no attachment to a particular area of land, and that they were simple hunters and gatherers... -
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore 9781784703929
RRP: $29.23$18.58**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. From Johnson's Dictionary to... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: $29.23$21.35An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian... -
Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short 9780719565694
RRP: $29.23$19.11Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for... -
Las Voces del Desierto / Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
RRP: $27.20$20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788498722680Author Marlo MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint B de BolsilloPublisher Penguin Random House Grupo EditorialWeight(grams)... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: $25.33$16.54Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan ... -
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $25.33$17.73The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the Sydney experiment, with criminals perceived to be damaging... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe 9781911344780
RRP: $25.33$16.69History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men,... -
The Throwaway Children by Diney Costeloe
RRP: $19.48$13.86Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable - the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War II. Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: $25.33$17.73Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the... -
A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads by Anthony Reid 9781118513002
RRP: $56.45$49.672016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the Humanities A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the... -
Australian Bushrangers 1788-1880 by Ian Knight
RRP: $23.38$16.44The first 'bushrangers' or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness - 'the bush' - in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small,... -
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce 9781863954914
RRP: $38.90$31.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Tasmanian Book Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781863954914Author James BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc... -
Pity the Swagman - The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist by Bethan Phillips 9781800995024
RRP: $33.13$29.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995024Author Bethan PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 36mm -
Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Steven Roger Fischer 9781861892829
$41.46Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c. AD 700. Centuries later the island's statues were famous throughout the world. This book presents a comprehensive history... -
Warriors in Scarlet: The Life and Times of the Last Redcoats by Ian Knight
RRP: $58.50$40.25Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change.An acclaimed military historian, Knight draws on... -
Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash 9780753816844
RRP: $25.33$16.77When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a... -
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover 9780733339813
RRP: $25.33$16.54The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come. 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'.There's plenty of... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand by Sir Keith Sinclair 9780195583816 [USED COPY]
RRP: $68.25$8.33Bringing one thousand years to life, this is an illustrated history of New Zealand from the settlement by Polynesians to the present day. The book covers the period of colonization after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the wars between the Maori... -
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics by Wes Hill
RRP: $87.73$76.60Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art... -
The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000 by Aaron Noonan 9781460763568
RRP: $33.13$22.37The cars, the stars, the thrills and the spills from 60 years of the Bathurst classic by Australia's premier motorsports journalist with a foreword by five-time winner Garth Tander The Bathurst 1000 is undoubtedly Australia's 'Great Race', forever part... -
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn
RRP: $21.43$14.14Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut tracks through the bush, but... -
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise by Willard A. Hanna
RRP: $27.28$17.94This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and... -
Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines by Greg Bankoff
RRP: $93.58$81.53Engagingly written with 34 graphs and 15 tables showing climate changes and the history of hazards in the PhilippinesWith the current threat of global warming, this is something that will affect other countries in the futureThis study will be of interest... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $19.48$13.26By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Australia. Posted to... -
DK Eyewitness Sydney by DK
RRP: $27.28$19.01The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Sydney.Marvel at the iconic silhouette of the Sydney Opera House, take surfing lessons on Bondi Beach or sip coffee... -
Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944 by Robert Lyman
RRP: $29.23$21.35This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance... -
Beyond Endurance: An Epic of Whitehall and the South Atlantic Conflict by Nick Barker 9780850525229 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.90$12.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt 9781863956116
RRP: $38.98$35.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863956116Author David HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 382g -
Sydney by Jan Morris
RRP: $21.43$14.27Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created ... but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.' Sydney takes us on the city's journey from penal colony to... -
The Lives of Colonial Objects by Annabel Cooper
RRP: $43.88$37.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322024Author Annabel CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1270g -
Alchemy and Rose: A sweeping new novel from the author of The House Between Tides, the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year by Sarah Maine
RRP: $17.53$12.09A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s'Its portrayal of life in a gold-rush town is vivid, and Rose's story is absorbing' The Times'Worth reading for its... -
James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: $39.00$26.81Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in... -
The European Settlement of Australia: The History and Legacy of Early Expeditions and British Settlements on the Australian Continent by Charles River Editors 9781720604204
RRP: $19.97$15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720604204Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Spitfire VC vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen by Peter Ingman
RRP: $27.28$19.01Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack. Without a single fighter to defend Australian soil, the Australian government made a special appeal to Britain for Spitfires. A year later the Spitfire VC-equipped No 1... -
Making a New Land: Enviromental Histories of New Zealand by Eric Pawson 9781877578526
RRP: $68.15$32.76Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of... -
Tall Man: A Death in Aboriginal Australia by Chloe Hooper 9781416561613
RRP: $35.08$25.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416561613Author Chloe HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: $39.00$26.81The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero?Most people have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But... -
The Mongols by David Morgan 9781405135399
RRP: $64.25$56.82The revised second edition of this highly praised introduction to the Mongol Empire takes account of recent scholarship in the field. Provides an overview of the government, religion, and politics of the Mongolian Empire Considers the effects of Mongol...