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Forbidden History by John Dudley Aldworth 9780473352646
RRP: €30.93€22.47Apologies 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
€20.96Jan 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... -
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
RRP: €17.84€11.96The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: €15.46€11.11Australia 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... -
Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook's recently discovered ship Peter Moore 9781784703929
RRP: €17.84€11.64**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: €17.84€13.03An 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... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: €15.46€10.36Winner 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: €15.46€11.11The 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... -
The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000 by Aaron Noonan 9781460763568
RRP: €20.22€13.65The 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... -
The Throwaway Children Diney Costeloe 9781784970031
RRP: €11.89€8.71Gritty, 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... -
The Bodyline Fix: How Women Saved Cricket by Marion Stell 9780702265785
RRP: €23.79€17.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702265785Author Marion StellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Steven Roger Fischer 9781861892829
€25.30Famed 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: €35.70€24.56Ian 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... -
Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero? Peter FitzSimons 9781472131430
RRP: €23.80€16.60The 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... -
Batavia's Graveyard Mike Dash 9780753816844
RRP: €15.46€10.51When 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... -
Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke
RRP: €9.46€6.50Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the Indigenous people, their complex social structures and... -
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn
RRP: €13.08€8.88Cal 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... -
Pity the Swagman - The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist by Bethan Phillips 9781800995024
RRP: €20.22€18.27Apologies 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 -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe 9781911344780
RRP: €15.46€10.47History 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 Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
RRP: €11.89€8.33By 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: €16.65€11.91The 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... -
Cricketers at War: Cricket Heroes Who also Fought for Australia in Battle by Greg Growden 9780733339929
RRP: €20.22€18.97Aussie cricketing heroes who also fought for Australia during wartime 'That's nothing. Pressure is having a Messerschmitt up your arse.' Keith Miller, when asked if he felt under pressure while captaining the NSW cricket team. Numerous heroes of... -
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson 9780747596707
RRP: €15.46€11.11Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author's unlikely romance with a Maori man. An... -
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich
RRP: €24.98€21.82Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin,... -
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
RRP: €29.75€20.05Ninety years on from its opening in 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge remains the most recognisable symbol of Australia. The iconic arch took almost nine years to complete - at a cost of sixteen lives and more than six million pounds - and the people,... -
Sydney by Jan Morris
RRP: €13.08€8.97Renowned 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: €26.78€23.05Apologies 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 -
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
RRP: €23.79€16.12'Readers look for and admire good writers and great writing. They will find it, in spades, in The Battle of the Bismarck Sea.' - The Canberra TimesIn the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for... -
Tall Man: A Death in Aboriginal Australia by Chloe Hooper 9781416561613
RRP: €21.41€15.37Apologies 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)... -
Alchemy and Rose: A sweeping new novel from the author of The House Between Tides, the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year Sarah Maine 9781529385021
RRP: €10.70€7.60A 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... -
Super Cheap New Zealand: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Budget Travelers, Backpackers, Campers, Students and Families by Matthew Baxter 9781913114053
RRP: €11.90€10.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913114053Author Matthew BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Super Cheap GuidesPublisher Super Cheap GuidesWeight(grams) 151gDimensions(mm) 228mm... -
Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket by Christian Ryan
RRP: €14.27€9.71**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly's best cricket book ever in 2019**WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010_________________Golden Boy is a blistering expose of the tumultuous Lillee/Marsh/Chappells era of Australian cricket, as viewed... -
Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944 Robert Lyman 9781472852069
RRP: €17.84€13.22This 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... -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia Robert Macklin 9781472140692
RRP: €17.84€11.96'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner 'A truly remarkable account drawing... -
James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world Peter FitzSimons 9781472131409
RRP: €23.80€16.60Captain 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... -
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells 9780522877250
RRP: €45.16€27.10The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they'd... -
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt 9781863956116
RRP: €23.79€21.74Apologies 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 -
ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier: Gallipoli and Palestine 1915-18 by Si Sheppard
RRP: €19.03€14.03In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem. This illustrated study investigates the two sides' fighting men. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 pitched the Australian and New Zealand volunteers... -
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce 9781863954914
RRP: €23.74€19.54Apologies 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... -
Handbook of Japanese Mythology by Michael Ashkenazi
RRP: €28.55€20.63Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex mythology that encompasses two religions, three cultures, and three millennia, one whose ancient deities are...