Travels in Southern Waters
462円 First published in 1870 under its much longer subtitle, Travels in Southern Waters is based on the journals of Lieutenant the Hon. Herbert Meade and his time served on HMS Curaçoa and HMS Esk. He spent time in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands at a critical time in European exploration and colo...
Pakeha Rambles Through Maori Lands
320円 First published in 1873, Pakeha Rambles Through Maori Lands is an account of life in early colonial New Zealand as seen through the eyes of John H. H. St. John. When St. John arrived in New Zealand, he was twenty-seven years old and a veteran of the Crimean War. He joined the Waikato Militia and ...
“We’ll Fight ‘Em To The finish !” The Bat...
0円 Nannygoat Hill stands in the Wolli Valley, about 10km from Sydney's central business district. One of the few surviving remnants of the City's natural environment, it supports a wide range of native plants and animals and is a much-loved local 'beauty spot'. In 1967, Brambles Industrial Services ...
Kiwi
3,115円 You probably have a tin of shoe polish tucked under the laundry sink bearing the little bird logo that has been in homes around the globe for over a century. Founded in Melbourne by William Ramsay in 1906, Kiwi is one of the most iconic and enduring international brands ever to have come out of A...
Scorched Earth
2,180円 Hidden for 75 years, the top secret government documents outlining preparations for the event of a Japanese invasion of Australia in 1942 have finally been discovered. They reveal an extraordinarily comprehensive plan to thwart Japanese troops, and a population that would go to great lengths to a...
Tour de Oz: The extraordinary story of th...
2,422円 Four years before the inaugural Tour de France, four cyclists known as 'Overlanders' set out on a race around Australia. On 24 November 1896 a wiry and wily bushman named Arthur Richardson left Coolgardie for Adelaide by bicycle. Carrying only a small kit and a water-bag, he followed the telegrap...
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau
3,399円 Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn’t the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau. Central Bureau ー Australia’s own large and sophisticated intelligence network, built from scratch. It was this group of mathematicians,...
Naval History 1500–1680
10,430円 In recent decades historians have studied several new aspects of early modern naval history and placed it in a wider context than traditional studies of naval warfare. This volume brings together 23 studies on naval technology, policy-making and administration, tactics, strategy, operations and w...
In Endless Fear: A True Story
700円 Autobiography of Colin Crump To celebrate Colin Crump's eightieth birthday, and to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his brother Barry Crump's death, CP Books have re-released In Endless Fear, the story of the Crump siblings' often-traumatic childhood. Colin's autobiography tells of a chil...
La Famille qui est allée à la guerre
458円 This book is on the life of a family during the First World War. The Family that went to War” is set back in the early 1900’s during wartime. The story follows six Australian family members as they each choose to go and fight for varying personal reasons. The book recounts their highs, lows, stru...
Paradise in Chains
2,827円 Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days ...
To Sing with Pigs Is Human
5,006円 Melanesia has been the research focus of some of anthropology’s legendary names. In the best tradition of Melanesian scholarship, Jane Goodale writes here of the Kaulong who live in the deep forests of New Britain, an island in the vast territory of Papua New Guinea. Even in the last half of the ...
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