The Killer's Game: Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives by Jane Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Exposing Captain Starlight's twisted life of crime and deceit. Who was 'Captain Starlight'? When a respectable public servant dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances, the authorities are baffled. Who really was the dead man? Was he an Irish nobleman fallen on hard times - or a conman, a forger, ...Show more
The Battle of One Tree Hill The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland by Ray Kerkhove
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Atlas of Qld and Northern Territory pastoral stations
$79.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Fight for Liberty and Freedom The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism by John Maynard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s which culminated in the famous Aboriginal tent embassy in 1972.Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the ...Show more
Australia and the World by David Lee
$42.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD is a highly accessible and informative work that explains Australia’s shifting place in a global context while detailing the many events, forces and relationships that have impacted upon it since Federation.
Brisbane: The Aboriginal Presence 1824-1860 by Raymond Evans, Rod Fisher, Libby Connors, John Mackenzie-Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Aboriginal Presence now comprises a foreword which examines recent research in Aboriginal studies, and seven instead of six papers on race relations in the Brisbane region between 1824 and 1860 This second edition has been reviewed and expanded to include some of Australia’s best qualified historian ...Show more
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery - to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land ...Show more
Out of Australia by Steven Strong; Evan Strong; Michael Tellinger (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
In their startling new book, Steven and Evan Strong challenge the "out-of-Africa" theory. Based on fresh examination of both the DNA and archeological evidence, they conclude that modern humans originated from Australia, not Africa. The original Australians (referred to by some as Aborigines ), like so ...Show more
A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories Ser.
Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia ...Show more
A Wild History - Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier by Darrell Lewis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Northern Territory's Victoria River District. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal peoples who had lived there for thousand ...Show more