100 Maritime Stories by David Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
To commemorate the 200 years since the exploring and naming of the Brisbane River by John Oxley in 1823, David Jones has compiled 100 maritime stories of Queensland. The book is in seven sections covering the early days, colonial era, shipwrecks, wartime and others.
100 Thousand Welcomes by Rodney Sullivan, Robin Sullivan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
This book traces the history of the Queensland Irish Association, one of the most successful ethnic organisations in Australia. Founded in 1898, it reacted against the divisive religious history of Ireland, enshrining denominational tolerance as a foundational principle.
A History of Queensland by Raymond Evans
$38.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History
A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human habitation up to the present. It encompasses pre-contact Aboriginal history, the years of convictism, free settlement and subsequent urban and rural growth. It takes the reader th ...Show more
Adventures with Agitators by Paul Richards
$30.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Adventures with Agitators is a tribute to the resilience, determination, patience and tolerance of the Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders of Queensland. In a series of short yarns about their battles in the justice and political systems, this book exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of the ru ...Show more
All We Could Do - Queensland Flu Stories 1918-20 by Matthew Wengert (Foreword by, Editorial Coordinator); Pamela Rushby; Margaret Cook; Peter Cook; Edwina Shaw; Andrea Baldwin; Janet Reid; Roz Glazebrook; Samantha Faulkner; Rita Metzenberg; Duncan Richardson (Editor); Nicky Boynton-Bricknell (Editor); Caitlin Morgan (Cover Design by); Michael McDermaid (Cover Design by); Jill Barker; Steve Capelin; Glenn Davies; Brian Davies
$15.00 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Anthology of short stories by various writers about the 'Spanish Flu' epidemic in Queensland. Each story is based on real people in real places. The first stories are about Queenslanders who died of the 'Flu' before the disease reached Queensland--including a soldier from Maryborough who died in France, ...Show more
Architecture and Urban Design in Brisbane Volume 2 by Graham de Gruchy
$59.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
This Volume is form 1989 to 2011.
Architecture in Brisbane Volume 1 by Graham de Gruchy
$49.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Asst Professor Graham de Gruchy examines the architecture of Brisbane from early settlement to 1988, Brisbane's Expo year. This book provides a comprehensive look at buildings-commercial & residential Retired Professor Graham de Gruchy examines the architecture of Brisbane from early settlement to 1 ...Show more
Brisbane by ,
$32.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History
In cemeteries throughout Australia, gravestones hint at our history - tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. Grave Tales reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final ...Show more
Brisbane Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares by William Metcalf
$34.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Brisbane: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares tells the stories of little-known, and rather peculiar aspects of Brisbanes colourful history. Eleven Brisbane authors from the 19th and 20th centuries wrote about how wonderful, utopian, Brisbane could be or how dreadful, dystopian, it could also be. ...Show more
Bruce Highway by ,
$32.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History | Series: Stories not laid to rest
'Grave Tales: Bruce Highway' will give forgotten events, heroes and victims life again by tracing the journeys that lead to their final resting places.Stories like how two nurses in Maryborough in 1905 gave their lives to save a town from an outbreak of pneumonic plague; the unsolved mystery of how Moll ...Show more
Caboolture and District - A Queensland Museum Pocket Guide
$11.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Queensland History | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more