1,050円 Born in 1942, Les Joseph Pickering left school at age 14 years to work on his father's property, 'Mittagong Station' in North West Queensland. No helicopters, quad bikes, satellite phones or huge road trains then. Here are his true tales of swimming stock across flooded river, dodging saltwater c...

2,422円 From hijabs to jihad and everything in between -- Muslims down under today What is Halal? A country bordering Shariahland, or a method of preparing food? Do the Five Pillars of Islam comply with modern building codes? Or are they simply a philosophy for living? And if Muslims first arrived in Aus...

1,749円 AT 19 YEARS OLD SHE PARTIED WITH LONDON SOCIETY, STRUCK GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND FOUGHT TRAGEDY, DESTITUTION AND DANGER TO CARVE A FUTURE IN PIONEER NEW ZEALAND. IT WAS 1847, AND THIS IS HER TRUE TEENAGE LIFE STORY... If you think today’s teens have it tough, spare a thought for Charlotte Gatland:...

2,691円 Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene. Balinese art has been popular and widely collected around the world for many decades. In fact, the ...

671円 Besides providing a wealth of contemporary factual information, diligently researched and presented in a remarkably lucid manner, this book is full of human interest: the braving of incredible dangers, the enduring of great hardships, and devastating storms; contacts with cannibals, beachcombers,...

806円 Polynesian Researches:Hawaii is the famous record of the author's visit to the Hawaiian Islands in the early nineteenth century. It includes an account of Hawaiian history, government, religion , warfare, and traditions- a general survey of Hawaiian life. More than this, it is the author's person...

166円 According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spill...

2,955円 Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approachーuniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavationーrenders his books devastating and unforgettable. Now, for the first time, Lindqvist's most beloved works are availabl...

1,089円 It is almost 60 years since the Karen took up arms against the Burmese dictatorship to fight for an independent homeland, but theirs is a nationalist struggle that shows no sign of exhaustion. Secret Genocide is a scholarly book on the plight of the Karen of Burma. Author Daniel Pedersen writes a...

300円 An early settler in Australia, Thomas Cook began as a Police Magistrate in the small town of Dungog during the convict era. Often involved in controversy, the life of Thomas Cook tells us much about this early period of Australian history.

2,287円 The off-roading, hill-seeking and muddy-morning adventures of New Zealand farming legend Mark Warren Mark Warren is a larger-than-life character of rural New Zealand. He grew up with an obsession with Landrovers, council tip trucks, bulldozers, hill-country tractors, snow-plows - if it had four w...

0円 This story is a blueprint – a written documentary and tangible map of a grassroots activist community initiative of people versus the machine. In their own words, residents of a historical inner city suburb in Queensland describe their protracted and bitter battle with the Brisbane City Council, ...