The Fatal Shore - A history of the transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
$20.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good to very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. It examines the original "future eaters" who were the first people to leave the Afro-Asian homeland and travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and became the Aboriginal, Maori and other Polynesian ...Show more
Ads That Made Australia by John Bruden-Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good
Last Woman Hanged: The terrible, true story of Louisa Collins by Caroline Overington
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died suddenly. The C ...Show more
Ever Yours, C H Spence. Catherine Helen Spence's an Autobiography 1825-1910, Diary 1894, and Correspondence 1894-1910 by Catherine Helen Spence
$30.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Ever Yours, C.H. Spence offers a narrative of the life of Catherine Helen Spence, in the spirit of the recent bestseller Blue Ribbons and Bitter Bread by Susanna de Vries. Novelist, journalist, preacher, public campaigner for social and electoral reform and life-long promoter of the rights of women, Spe ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told by Henry Reynolds
$10.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good
This memoir tells of the author's journey towards the realisation that the version of the past he grew up with was distorted and idealised. Examines ideas about the settlement of Australia by Europeans and discusses topics such as Land Rights, the Mabo decision, pastoral leases and the pursuit of justic ...Show more
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : The dark true tale of a boy stolen from Sydney Harbour and his remarkable journey of courage, battle, murder and insanity on the high seas by Robert Holden
$10.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
The life of Australian whaling captain William Chamberlain
An Appreciation of Difference - W E H Stanner and Aboriginal Australia by Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett (eds)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
WEH Stanner was a public intellectual whose work reached beyond the walls of the academy, and he remains a highly significant figure in Aboriginal affairs and Australian anthropology. He contributed much to public understandings of the Dreaming and the significance of Aboriginal religion. His 1968 Boyer ...Show more
Tall Ships and Tall Tales by Jonathon King
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Tall Ships and Tall Tales is a unique account of a historian who has always refused to let the past be forgotten. This special book includes newspaper photos and political cartoons about the momentous events it describes.
Ned Kelly by John C. Molony
$14.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Since his death in the old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, Ned Kelly has become a part of the land and its memories. In this evocative, imaginative recreation of the Kelly story, John Molony unravels the tangled skein of a life over which legend has cast a spell.