Breweries of Australia - A History by Keith M. Deutsher
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
The Breweries of Australia is a unique colonisation. From its small and scattered origins in convict settlements, the brewing industry has been vital in the development of hundreds of country towns, and is now one of Australias largest and most important industries. In this encyclopaedic book, Keith Deu ...Show more
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Thomas Keneally
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Lives Biographies (Paperback)
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In ...Show more
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon by Jeffrey Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon ...Show more
The Dragon and the Kangaroo by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today. Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right through to t ...Show more
London's Curse: Murder, Black Magic and Tutankhamun in the 1920s West End by Mark Beynon
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Throughout the 1920 and 30s, London was gripped by the supposed curse of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy-king of antiquity, whose tomb in the Luxor sands was uncovered in 1923. Over the next few years more than 20 of those involved in the exhumation of the tomb perished in strange and often terrifying cir ...Show more
Machiavelli: A Renaissance Life by Joseph Markulin
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
This epic piece of storytelling brings the world of fifteenth-century Italy to life as it traces Machiavelli's rise from young boy to controversial political thinker. The often-vilified Renaissance politico and author of "The Prince" comes to life as a diabolically clever, yet mild mannered and conscie ...Show more
Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women by Joyce Marlow
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - 1870 It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several decades, won finally by sheer will and determinati ...Show more
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In e ...Show more
The Reef: A Passionate History by Iain McCalman
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great Barrier Reef, argues Iain McCalman, has been created by human minds as well as coral polyps, by imaginations as well as natural processes. In this landmark book he charts our shifting perceptions of it, from the terrifying labyrinth that almost sunk Cook's Endeavour to a fragile global treasu ...Show more
From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must w ...Show more
Walking with the ANZACS: A Complete Guide to the Australian Battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18 by Mat McLachlan
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
WALKING WITH THE ANZACS aims to become the new essential companion for Australians visiting the Western Front. Each of the 14 most important Australian battlefields is covered with descriptions of the battles and Australia s involvement in it. The book presents a well-illustrated walking tour across the ...Show more
Waterfront: Graft, Corruption and Violence - Australia's Crime Frontier from 1788 to Now by Duncan McNab
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have been our opening to the world. They are also the breeding ground for many of Australia's most notorious criminals, and a magnet for local and overseas criminal syndicates. WATERFRONT is the story of the crimes, the politics, the character ...Show more