A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Death by Demolition by Helen Carter; Stevens Ray (Introduction by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
This remarkable 140 page book traces the history of demolished houses in the Balmain area (Balmain, Birchgrove and Rozelle) from its earliest house built c 1815 to an inter-war bungalow recently demolished in November 2021.The 49 specific examples, accompanied by a small history of who lived in these ho ...Show more
Balmain To Glebe Pictorial History by Lawrence Joan, Catherine Warne
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Pictorial History Balmain to Glebe covers the suburbs of Annandale, Balmain, Birchgrove, Leichhardt, Lilyfield and Rozelle. Glebe, although no longer part of the Leichhardt municipality, is included for geographical and historical reasons. Each area has its own story of settlement, growth and developmen ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
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
The Wager by David Grann
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expre ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The Story of the Aussies Who Changed the Course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more
The Women's Pool by Lynne Spender (ed)
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The history of McIvers Ladies Baths in Coogee affectionately know as the Womens Pool is eloquently told in these stories by women who have found friendship, sanctuary and simple pleasure as they have gathered and swum there. The history of Coogees McIvers Ladies Baths Australias only ocean pool reserved ...Show more
My Mother the Spy: The Daring and Tragic Double Life of ASIO Agent Mercia Masson by Cindy Dobbin, Freda Marnie Nicholls
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The true story of an undercover ASIO agent who was hung out to dry in the Cold War. 'I have lost everything in coming here. I have lost my friends... I have probably lost my position; I shall probably have to remove my child from the school and my mother from the house in which she lives. I do not thin ...Show more
Inside Ukraine: A Portrait of a Country and its People by Bogdan Logvynenko
$47.99 AUD
Category: History
Inside Ukraine is a compelling visual portrait of the real Ukraine, lovingly put together by Ukrainians in the years leading up to the current war. The product of five years and 100,000 kilometers of travel around the country by the volunteers of Ukraïner, an organization that aims to explain Ukraine t ...Show more