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1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$19.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Winner of the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award and the 2013 Tasmania Book Prize With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land - and more people - was conquered than in the preceding fifty. In 1835 James Bo ...Show more
The Catalpa Rescue: The Most Dramatic & Successful Prison Break in Australian History by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this multi-award-winning history of colonial Tasmania, James Boyce shows how the newcomers were changed by the natural world th ...Show more
The New World of Martin Cortes - A True Story of Poignant Loss and Resilient Courage by Anna Lanyon
$37.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Martin Cortes was the first, and illegitimate, son of the conquistador Hernan Cortes and the indigenous American woman who translated for him-the legendary Malinche. Taken from his mother as an infant, he was raised in Cuba by paternal relatives. At six he went to Spain with his father to become a page ...Show more
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels Who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
A story of unsung bravery at a defining moment in Britain's history'A fascinating, beautifully written story I had never heard before' Hugh GrantWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told. In the early 1930s, a gr ...Show more
Fire and Song: The Story of Luis De Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition by Anna Lanyon
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. What heresies will the Holy Office uncover? Can he protect his mother and sisters?
An Inconvenient Genocide - Who Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The most controversial issue left over from the First World War - was there an Armenian Genocide? - comes to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians throughout the world commemorate the centenary of the murder of 1.5 million - over half - of their people, at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. ...Show more
The Big Book of Australia's War Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: SHORT STORIES
Here are the stories of Australia's iconic battles and campaigns from the time of federation to the Vietnam War. Some are still household names, although their historical significance may be a mystery to most Aussies. Others are barely remembered now, but are part in our history and deserve to be retold ...Show more
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre by Lyndall (EDT) Jane (EDT); Ryan Lydon
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Marking its 180t ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an int ...Show more
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