1,687円 "A chronicle of sad loss." Sydney Morning Herald "eloquent... heartbreaking... a sterling tribute. The stuff of legends." Nick Richardson, Herald Sun FAIR DINKUM (def.): honesty, guts, directness, fortitude, courage, truth. You had to be fair dinkum to enlist after the hell of Gallipoli hit home....

1,326円 ‘An intimate portrait of a woman who changed herself and Australia…Michelle Scott Tucker makes Elizabeth Macarthur step off the page.’ David Hunt , Author of Girt In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In an...

1,326円 The whole Allied front was barely four miles, swept by a terrible inferno of shells. The air was filled with the white woolly clouds that the Anzac menーold soldiers nowーknew meant a hail of lead. Published soon after the evacuation from Gallipoli, Australia in Arms is a vital early account of t...

900円 'TRANSPORTADO - A HISTÓRIA DO PIONEIRO' Com base na vida real de George Smith, a história conta como ele se voltou para o crime, teve sua sentença de morte comutada à vida nas colônias e surgiu de começos humildes para se tornar um proprietário de terras australiano pioneiro e rico. Chegando na c...

1,440円 The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. The melancholic exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidat...

800円 The Treaty of Waitangi had been in place for only two years when the London set out from England with a full shipload of wannabe pioneers. Driven by a variety of motives, many of them related to poverty and lack of positive expectations, they responded to slick advertising and set out for a new l...

3,645円 This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies. It explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of...

2,556円 The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts ...

10,430円 The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable co...

5,023円 The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown. Fully updated to include a detailed assess...

2,427円 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty, the Enlightenment was an a...

310円 Mark Twain's 'Roughing It' is a semi-autobiographical travelogue that takes readers on a wild journey through the American West during the 1860s. Filled with humor, adventure, and Twain's signature wit, the book captures the essence of a rapidly changing frontier society. Twain's descriptive narr...