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A Distant Field Of Murder: Western District Frontiers 1834-1848 by Jan Critchett 9780522845273
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €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... -
The Missing Lands: Uncovering Earth's Pre-flood Civilization by Freddy Silva 9780578482194
Booksplease Price: €23.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578482194Author Freddy SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Freddy SilvaPublisher Freddy SilvaWeight(grams) 549g -
Hawaiki Rising: Hokule`a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance by Sam Low 9780824875244
Booksplease Price: €20.43Attuned to a world of natural signs-the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells-Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.16Winner 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08The 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 Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €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... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe 9781911344780
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.45History 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,... -
Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero? Peter FitzSimons 9781472131430
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.36The 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... -
Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook's recently discovered ship Peter Moore 9781784703929
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.60**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... -
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143790020Author Christine HelliwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Michael JosephPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Soldiers, Scouts and Spies: A military history of the New Zealand Wars 1845-1864 by Cliff Simons 9780995109575
RRP: €51.16Booksplease Price: €35.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995109575Author Cliff SimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams)... -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia Robert Macklin 9781472140692
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.92'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... -
Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket by Christian Ryan
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.29**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... -
‘Ten Pound Poms’: A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia A. James Hammerton 9781526184238
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26A riveting history of the 'Ten Pound Poms', a wave of British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after the Second World War. Between the 1940s and 1970s, more than a million Britons migrated to Australia. They were the famous 'Ten Pound... -
Poof by J M Tolcher 9780646875873
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646875873Author J M TolcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint James TolcherPublisher James TolcherWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 15mm -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08Australia 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... -
The Bodyline Fix: How Women Saved Cricket by Marion Stell 9780702265785
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.41Apologies 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)... -
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's Greatest Explorer Peter FitzSimons 9781472131461
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.36Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived.The son of pioneer pastoralists in South Australia, Hubert studied engineering before moving on to photography. In 1908 he sailed for England and a job producing films with the... -
Warriors in Scarlet: The Life and Times of the Last Redcoats by Ian Knight
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €24.63Ian 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... -
Sydney by Jan Morris
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.45Renowned 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 Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000 by Aaron Noonan 9781460763568
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €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... -
ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier: Gallipoli and Palestine 1915-18 by Si Sheppard
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.92In 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... -
Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture in Honour of Janet M. Davidson by Atholl Anderson 9781877372452
Booksplease Price: €22.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877372452Author Atholl AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1278g -
Super Cheap New Zealand: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Budget Travelers, Backpackers, Campers, Students and Families by Matthew Baxter 9781913114053
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.13Apologies 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... -
The Throwaway Children Diney Costeloe 9781784970031
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.72Gritty, 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... -
Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €6.90Here 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... -
The CAC Boomerang: Australia’s own WWII Fighter by Don Williams 9780975642320
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €24.89The CAC Boomerang has a unique place in Australian aviation history, being the nation's only home designed and produced fighter. The design was born in dark days at the start of the Pacific War when the RAAF possessed not a single modern fighter and the... -
Amphibious Assault Falklands: the Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp 9781844155064
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.77Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.35By 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: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.86The 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: €21.41Booksplease Price: €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... -
Mr Peacock's Possessions: THE TIMES Book of the Year by Lydia Syson 9781471403699
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.44'Intelligent, beautifully written' The Times'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author' Stella Magazine'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined' Lancashire Evening PostOceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks,... -
Australia According to Hoges by Paul Hogan
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.35Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down Under Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have... -
The Lives of Colonial Objects by Annabel Cooper
Booksplease Price: €22.81Apologies 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 Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.58A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years later he was "back from the dead" and in New... -
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €15.89'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... -
Legacy of a Miner's Daughter: the impact on the Banabans after phosphate mining by Stacey M King 9780645149104
Booksplease Price: €6.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645149104Author Stacey M KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Banaban Vision PublicationsPublisher Banaban Vision PublicationsWeight(grams) 91g -
A History of Japan by Conrad Totman 9781405123594 [USED COPY]
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €21.75This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility.Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology,... -
A History of Japan Conrad Totman (Yale University) 9781405123594
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €41.75This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. This title covers a wide range of subjects, including... -
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.97Ninety 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,...