Traitors and Spies by John Fahey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The history of Australia's intelligence operations in the early 20th century reveals the dark underside of Australian politics, including early infiltration by Russian agents, persecution of innocent civilians, and corruption, right up to the prime minister's office. Dozens of Russian anarchists, social ...Show more
Red Lead: The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway. Just after midnight on the 1st March 1942, Australia's most celebrated cruiser, HMAS Perth, was sunk by Japanese naval forces in the Sunda Strait off the coast of Java. Of the 681 men aboard, 328 survi ...Show more
People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.
The Colony: a History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blu ...Show more
Fighting for Our Lives - The History of a Community's Response to AIDS by Nick Cook
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Fighting For Our Lives is the inspirational story of communities directly affected by the AIDS crisis. Against a harrowing backdrop of illness and death, fear and anger, hate and discrimination, they bravely took action. During the darkest years of the epidemic, marginalised communities – mostly gay men ...Show more
A New History of the Irish in Australia by Diane Hall; Elizabeth Malcolm
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A New History of the Irish in Australia In 1986, Patrick O'Farrell published a landmark book, The Irish in Australia. This was an important volume given that after the English, the Irish were the largest population in Australia between 1788 and 1945, comprising nearly 25 per cent of all non-Indigenous A ...Show more
The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods with Recipes by John Newton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
'This is a book about Australian food, the unique flora and fauna that nourished the Aboriginal peoples of this land for over 50 000 years. It is because European Australians have hardly ever touched these foods for over 200 years that I am writing this book.' We celebrate cultural and culinary diversit ...Show more
An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From mountaintops to riverbeds by Gilles Palsky; Jean-Marc Besse; Philippe Grand; Jean-Christophe Bailly
$95.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in measuring te ...Show more
Superpower Interrupted - The Chinese History of the World by Michael Schuman
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again." We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it al ...Show more
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by William H. McRaven
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the mo ...Show more
Valley of Genius - The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom by Adam Fisher
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley- from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way. Rarely has one economy asserted itself as swiftly-and a ...Show more
Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack by Richard Ovenden
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of the ...Show more