Wild Women by Pamela Robson
$9.95 AUD
Category: General History
"Wild Women" details the lives and deeds of some of the most extraordinary women in history. Trailblazers, hell-raisers and firebrands, these women showed a level of daring and disregard for traditional gender roles completely atypical of their time and culture. This collection features women like Njing ...Show more
Beyond Reasonable Drought by Don Watson
$12.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
There has been nothing like it in living memory. Theories about cycles and seasons struggle to explain it. It is beyond reasonable drought. Early this century, a group of photographers crisscrossed the nation, and captured a seismic shift in the way Australians were living their lives. Caught in these p ...Show more
The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham
$12.00 AUD
Category: General History
The British Empire was not built on gold, silver or precious gems - it was built on food. The desire to trade and the need to feed its population drove Britain to engage in dramatic exploration and expansion in a quest to discover ever more exotic foodstuffs and satisfy the growing appetite back home. M ...Show more
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
$9.95 AUD
Category: General History
"A Very Short History of the World" is the story of the world's people during the last four million years. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of it coming together again in recent cent ...Show more
Lasseter's Gold by Warren Brown
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930 it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15 kilometre gold reef. The mystery deepened when he and a surveyor returned to ...Show more
Skimpy: Outrageous True Tales of Crocodiles, Snakes and Pulling Beers in the Outback by Kellie Arrowsmith
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Kellie Arrowsmith was a country girl whose idea of a hairdo was tying a ponytail whenever she wanted to go horse riding. But in her early twenties she left her sleepy hometown of Albury on the NSW/Victoria border for the bright lights of the Gold Coast, and soon found herself working in a succession of ...Show more
Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall by Greg De Moore
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is the story of Tom Wills ? flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. Sent to the strict British Rugby School in 1850 at fourteen, Tom returned as a worldly young man whose cricke ...Show more
Great Australian Working Dog Stories by Angela Goode
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: GREAT AUSTRALIAN STORIES
Uncomplaining, tough and loyal, they are the only workers that never go on strike or hit the grog. Working dogs deserve every bit of praise they get! With infectious enthusiasm, they leap on to the back of the ag bike to start the day's work. You'll get no argument from people on the land that these t ...Show more
River of Gold by Hector Holthouse
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Wild Days of the Palmer River Gold Rush "What with cannibal blacks, pig-tailed Chinamen in thousands, lynch-law hangings, gambling dens, shanty towns, murders, grog-shops and Italian opera singers, the Palmer River Goldfields - properly spun out - should provide enough television material for genera ...Show more
Rule of St Benedict in English RB 1980 by St Benedict of Nursia
$8.95 AUD
Category: General History