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  • Through Darkest Seas
    Graeme A Cocks
    A spell was cast over Graeme Cocks when he was summoned to coffee and cinnamon biscuitsat an unassuming house in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1994. For the next 20 years, hecould not release himself from the grip of a little sailing ship called Duyfken - the Little Dove.Against all odds, a magnificent 16th century Dutch sailing ship was conceived andconstructed in the heart...
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    58,85 €

  • Through Darkest Seas
    Graeme A Cocks
    A spell was cast over Graeme Cocks when he was summoned to coffee and cinnamon biscuitsat an unassuming house in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1994. For the next 20 years, hecould not release himself from the grip of a little sailing ship called Duyfken - the Little Dove.Against all odds, a magnificent 16th century Dutch sailing ship was conceived andconstructed in the heart...
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    46,45 €

  • The Trans-Australian Wonderland
    A.G. Bolam
    The first book written on the natural history of life on the Nullabor Plain, was written by station-master A.G. Bolam and first published in 1923. The author recollects his times with Aboriginal trackers and workers in and around Ooldeah, as the great railway progressed from South Australia across to Western Australia, and in doing so looks at animal and bird life and the uniqu...
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    19,07 €

  • Yank Down Under
    Tim Sweeney
    As an American who lived in Australia for three years, Tim Sweeney has a unique-and often highly comical-perspective on life Down Under. Lucky for us, he has a gift for bringing the reader along for the ride as he observes and relays hilarious stories about the places he visited and the characters he met along the way. And there are plenty of those. Sweeney fills the pages of Y...
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    21,80 €

  • FREDERICK WORDSWORTH WARD
    Colin Teasdale
    The man, ’Thunderbolt’, walks on the plains, in the distance with his chestnut-coloured horse. He wears his cowboy hat and holds his horse with a long rein behind him. You can see him walking into the horizon, with his head bowed, and a beautiful sunset in the background. He is The Australian Bushranger! ...
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    12,67 €

  • The First Matildas
    Greg Downes
    The First Matildas is the story of the women who played for Australia in the Asian Cup Ladies Football Tournament held in Hong Kong in 1975. Australia took part along with teams from Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand. The tournament, which was the forerunner to what is known today as the Asian Football Confederation’s Women’s Asian Cup, was won by New Ze...
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    17,45 €

  • SURVIVORS AND THRIVERS
    David Gould
    Sitting down in a series of interviews with 27 men aged between 74 and 95, David Gould discovered lives - now rapidly being lost to history - that were lived under the shadow of homophobic prejudice. Their stories reveal how these men made sense of their lives and desires, how they responded to social expectations around family and marriage, and found sex at a time when it was ...
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    26,71 €

  • O Brasil Não É Para Amadores
    Wilson Caetano
    Brasil Não é para Amadoresé uma história inspiradora sobre coragem, determinação e luta contra a corrupção. O livro segue a jornada de Jack, um empresário americano que foi contratado para liderar uma empresa no Brasil. Ele logo se depara com os problemas sociais do país, incluindo corrupção generalizada, tráfico de drogas e exploração sexual. Ele decide fazer algo a respeito e...
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    12,45 €

  • Australia Banaba Relations
    Stacey M. King
    The prosperity of Australia during the past century was provided by the wealth generated from the nation’s farmlands.One of the major components of this success depended on the subsided use of super-phosphate fertilisers derived from the rich phosphate rock deposits of a small remote Pacific island. In a period spanning eighty years, Australia was a major shareholder in a joint...
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    7,72 €

  • The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765
    J. E. Heeres
    The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by J. E. Heeres has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redes...
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    24,75 €

  • The Big Flood Glenreagh 1950
    Commissioned by the Glenreagh School of Arts to coincide with their Cedar & Steam Art Competition in 2023, the book is a compilation of illustrated poetry and short stories. In 1950 Glenreagh, on the Orara River in the north east of NSW, Australia, experienced a huge flood which washed houses off their foundations and caused massive destruction of property and livestock in the ...
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    15,39 €

  • A Questionable Virtue
    Paul W. Feenstra
    Assigned by the Evening Standard’s editor to write a short community bulletin on a missing man, Leonard Hardy unwittingly stumbles upon a criminal enterprise of global proportions. The trail leads him into the dubious world of horse racing and gambling, where he painfully discovers the extreme lengths criminals will go to protect their illicit schemes. His own orderly and well-...
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    25,32 €

  • Darwin
    Derek Pugh
    The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia’s Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of mining, pastoralism, and agriculture suffered from downturn, disease and distance. The South Australians had had enough of their ’white elephant’ and, when Palmerston blew away in the Great Hurricane of 1897, the calls for the Northern Terri...
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    33,17 €

  • Crossing cultures
    Barbara Jackson
    In the early 1980s, Barbara Jackson visited her father in Tennant Creek and was catapulted into the harsh reality of life in an Aboriginal community. Her version of Australian history hadn’t prepared her for the racism, the sub-standard living conditions, or the suffering. She decided to do something about it.  Barbara’s wry humour leavens her lively account of the traumas, fru...
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    29,29 €

  • Völuspá: A Profecia Da Mulher Sábia
    Allan P. Marante
    Do Ginnungagap ao RagnarokVöluspá é um texto poético e enigmático, onde Óðinn, o Soberano dos Deuses, e uma Völva, uma sábia profetiza, relembram o começo dos tempos e interpretam as profecias do fim de tudo.Qual o curso do sol e da lua? Quais eram os seres primitivos? Como os Deuses deram espírito e intelecto aos seres humanos? Como o mundo como conhecemos foi criado?Nesta edi...
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    14,36 €

  • New Zealand’s empire
    Both colonial and postcolonial historical approaches often sideline New Zealand as a peripheral player. This book redresses the balance, and evaluates its role as an imperial power - as both a powerful imperial envoy and a significant presence in the Pacific region. ...
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    44,14 €

  • Out Here Down Under
    E. A. Judge
    Out Here Down Under is a collection of documents and papers illuminating the development and character of ancient ‎history as a discipline in the Antipodes. It considers especially the distinctive and extraordinarily ‎popular program, championed by E. A. Judge, of studying classical and biblical corpora together under ‎one discipline, with an emphasis on the interpretation of d...
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    31,11 €

  • Out Here Down Under
    E. A. Judge
    Out Here Down Under is a collection of documents and papers illuminating the development and character of ancient ‎history as a discipline in the Antipodes. It considers especially the distinctive and extraordinarily ‎popular program, championed by E. A. Judge, of studying classical and biblical corpora together under ‎one discipline, with an emphasis on the interpretation of d...
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    45,30 €

  • Five Months at Anzac
    Joseph Lievesley Beeston
    This book is a Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. This has been published with the best technology to reproduce historical work in the same manner it was first published to preserve its original nature. ...
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    31,37 €

  • Frederic Slater A Genius or Mischievous?
    Evan William Strong / Frederic Slater / Steven Leonard Strong
    The Biblical narrative of the Tower Babel with all people speaking one shared language, is no longer a myth or legend, but a hand-written fact. Frederic Slater had in his possession all of the symbols and marks of this ancient language which gave him the ability to correctly translate not only the ancient engravings and paintings in Australia, but the whole world. This language...
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    19,03 €

  • Years of Rage
    Tom O’Lincoln
    It’s 1975, and the Liberal Party’s Malcolm Fraser makes a ruthless grab for power. Workers resist, opening up seven years of bitter class conflict. Years of Rage analyses the crisis into which Australia plunged under Whitlam. It outlines the actions of politicians, capitalists, oppressed people and above all the organized working class. From the upheavals of the Constitutional ...
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    32,32 €

  • Becoming a mother
    Carla Pascoe Leahy
    This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and continuity in experiences of becoming a mother since 1945. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Titanic - A Survivor’s Account
    Larry W Jones
    English science teacher Lawrence Beesley survived the April 15, 1912 sinking of R.M.S. Titanic. When no more ladies or children answered the call, he boarded the overcrowded lifeboat number 13 and was transported to New York aboard the R.M.S. Carpathia. His first-hand account was written just weeks after the disaster and includes interview accounts from other survivors. This bo...
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    46,18 €

  • Australian Legendary Tales
    K Langloh Parker
    Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Piccaninnies was first published in 1896. The 30 tales are supplemented by a glossary and the first tale transliterated from the original language and are set in a ’no-time’ where animal spirits, supernatural beings and humans interact, often alluding to ideas of creation.Langloh Parker is probably right...
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    19,19 €

  • THE PETRIFIED WOMAN
    PETER BUTT
    IN THE WAKE OF THE SOMERTON MAN COMES ANOTHER INTRIGUING SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TRUE CRIME MYSTERY - THE PETRIFIED WOMAN  Renmark, South Australia 1951. The discovery of a petrified female body in the raging floodwaters of the River Murray triggers a police investigation across three states. Her facial features and hands are missing, but evidence suggests she has been murdered. As de...
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    19,16 €

  • No Longer A Wandering Spirit
    Ezzard Flowers / Sharon Huebner
    In June 1867, Bessy Flowers was sent away from Minang Country, never to return. She was a young woman, educated, musical, confident andhopeful. Bessy was educated at Annesfield in Albany, showing strong aptitude in writing, reading and the piano. She became a teacher herself.But like generations of Aboriginal children to follow, Bessy was separated from those she cared for and ...
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    33,60 €

  • Nightingales, Bluebirds and Angels of Mercy
    Elise Baker
    The World Wars of the 20th century caused massive upheavals all over the world. Millions of men from every corner of the globe enlisted in the armed forces to fight, while women took the places of men in the workforce at home. Eighty years later, we still see photographs of Rosie the Riveter and women welding bombers for the Air Force. What history often overlooks, however, are...
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    9,70 €

  • Distant sisters
    James Keating
    The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements. ...
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    44,22 €

  • The French Collector
    Paul Gibbard
    The French botanist Théodore Leschenault (1773-1826) travelled with Nicolas Baudin’s voyage of discovery to Australia in the years 1800 to 1803: his journal and letters vividly record his impressions of the plant life and animals he encountered, along with dramatic and unsettling meetings with Indigenous peoples.Shaped as much by Enlightenment ideas as by his painful experience...
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    29,72 €

  • Around the Bend I Go
    Max C S Beck
    After World War II, Reg Beck buys The Crown Hotel, then one of 72 pubs in Bendigo, 12 of which were within 300 metres. In the days before motels, his wife Madge manages the accommodation side of the business catering for many important VIPs including County and Supreme Court judges. Their children Max (aka ’Mickey’), then aged four, and his sister Zelda, five and a half, are en...
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    20,38 €


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