Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Eur ...Show more
Pilot On Board: The 175th Anniversary History of the Port Phillip Sea Pilots by Brendan Moloney
$79.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo. Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
The Golden Gang: Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the biggest gold robbery in Australian history by Ian W. Shaw
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Atop the hierarchy of Australian bushrangers sits Ned Kelly – the ultimate outlaw, and just below him, the tragic figure of Ben Hall, who joined a gang led by a man whose name today is less well known, but who in his day was much more famous than Hall or any other bushranger – Frank Gardiner. Mastermin ...Show more
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon's Australia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
In a life that spanned more than a century - 1882 to 1989 - Monte Punshon witnessed crucial events in Australia's history. She was a pioneer radio broadcaster, travelled the country with children's theatrical troupes and defied convention with her active involvement in the underground world of queer Mel ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath by Patricia Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was part of the massive clean-up effort. This is her ext ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sag ...Show more
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more