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When Chairmen Were Patriots by Elizabeth Fysh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Fergus McMaster started with nothing and with his brothers built a sprawling pastoral empire in western Queensland. Following his return from World War I, a chance meeting outside Cloncurry with Lieutenant Paul McGinness took him on a new path. With Lieutenant Hudson Fysh, the three men followed the ...Show more
Banks by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery - the extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trump ...Show more
STORIES OF THE SOUTHSIDE VOL 2 by ROBERTS, BERYL
$17.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests ...Show more
Bjelke Blues by Edwina Shaw
$25.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Anthology of short stories by various writers, telling some of the serious, silly, and surreal aspects of life in Queensland during the politically turbulent 1960s-80s.
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Man in Australia? by Barbara Winter
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Who was "the most dangerous man in Australia" in the years before World War II? Was it the geologist who obtained nickel and molybdenite to prolong the life of Krupp guns and help "our dear F hrer" to win the next war? Or perhaps the journalist who took Japanese money in return for persuading politician ...Show more
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women - An Inside Look at Women and Sex in Medieval Times by Rosalie Gilbert
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman? An inside look at sexual practices in medieval times. Were medieval women slaves to their husband's desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body ...Show more
Armageddon and OKRA - Australia's Air Operations in the Middle East a Century Apart by Lewis Frederickson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Post WW2 Military History | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
The dispatch of an Ottoman Army by Australian-led Imperial air power in the Wadi Fara on 21 September 1918 occurred just five years after the advent of military aviation in Australia. In 1914, the fledgling Australian air service operated the flimsy Bristol Boxkite; four years later it was flying the fa ...Show more
Great Women's Speeches by Anna Russell
$19.99 AUD
Category: World History
Over 50 empowering speeches celebrating women in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day.
Killing Sydney - The Fight for a City's Soul by Elizabeth Farrelly
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
I've lived in Sydney some thirty years. But I feel that the city I love is under genuine threat. Motorways, Mirrorglass, McMansions: this knock-down-rebuild mentality is everywhere. I get hundreds of emails, all the time, from people who are infuriated, or despairing, over what is happening to Sydney. A ...Show more