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Sydney Harbour: A History
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Ian Hoskins

If there is one image that conjures up Australia for people around the world it is the Opera House adrift on Sydney Harbour. Not to take anything from Utzon's iconic building, it does however tend to draw the eye away from the truly beautiful harbour itse

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Capital
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Kristin Otto

This book on Melbourne's status as the nation's capital, 1901-1927, began life when the author was the recipient of a Redmond Barry fellowship at the State Library of Victoria and had access to the riches of its collections. It is an adroit and interestin

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A Place to Remember
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Bruce Scates

All visitors to Melbourne, who traverse St. Kilda Road, are inevitably drawn visually to the Shrine of Remembrance. It is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Shrine and this book has been commissioned for the occasion. It is replete with historical infor

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Inferno
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Roger Franklin

History will record 7th February 2009 as one of the most dangerous and extremely sad days in the lives of Victorians. The bushfires that ravaged great tracts of land and claimed so many lives are the subject of this book written by a career journalist.

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The Tiger Man of Vietnam
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Frank Walker

Australian Army Captain Barry Petersen was like so many others serving – anticipating what might be in store in the line of duty but finding themselves caught up in situations never imagined. Handpicked to travel to Vietnam to work under the command of th

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Weary: King of the River
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Sue Ebury

Sue Ebury knows her subject well, having written two other books about Sir Edward (Weary) Dunlop. Truly an inspirational Australian, Weary Dunlop is synonymous with courage and compassion through his lifetime's work and, especially, his work as a surgeon

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The Search for the Sydney
Price: AUD 55.00 Author: David L. Mearns

David L. Mearns is a shipwreck hunter and the leader of the expedition that found the Sydney after sixty-five years lying lost beneath the ocean. The Sydney sank off the Western Australian coast in November 1941 and her entire complement of 645 officers and men were lost. The finding of this shipwreck is significant for the men’s families and for the nation.

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The Wolf
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen

Few Australians living today would be aware that between the years 1916 and 1918, a German warship, Wolf, traversed the Pacific with the single aim of undermining and destroying Allied shipping. The oceans of Australia and New Zealand were its home as it sailed for fifteen months without pulling in to port. It was effectively a prison ship for both the crew and more than four hundred men, women and children who had been captured.

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Pelletier
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Stephanie Anderson

Narcisse Pelletier was a French cabin boy who lived with an Aboriginal family on the Cape York peninsula for seventeen years. In 1858, this family rescued the young Narcisse who had survived a shipwreck off the coast of New Guinea and was voyaging from there to Cape York in a longboat.

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Australian Tragic
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Jack Marx

Jack Marx takes the fact of our convict past and the many tragic stories that emanated from it as the springboard for documenting Australian stories of tragedy, sadness, and ill-conceived grand plans.

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Mark Strizic, Melbourne: Marvellous to Modern
Price: AUD 95.00 Author: Emma Matthews

When Mark Strizic arrived in Melbourne from Europe in the 1950s ostensibly to undertake studies in science, he began to record the city through his camera lens. A lifetime later in his eighty-second year and with a successful photographic career now largely behind him, his photos from those days paint a city of grand boulevards and invading wreckers’ balls. Captured in these photos is a Melbourne we see glimpses of in what was, thankfully, preserved. But, they are only glimpses compared to what Mark Strizic recorded with his camera. The Melbourne he saw is a city of gracious buildings, wide streets, and distinctive architecture. The invasion was of the modern - buildings that in fact have not stood the test of time - and these too are caught in the photographer’s lens. Emma Matthews, an art historian-curator, has created a book that is a celebration of Melbourne and, more particularly, of Mark Strizic and his contribution to our history.

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Up From the Mission
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Noel Pearson

When someone is active in the public debate of a nation, especially in these times of instant communication and sound bytes, it can be hard to access their thoughts in context and in detail. This selection of Noel Pearson`s writings provides us for the first time with just such access. He writes about his own life and his views on all subjects, ranging from local and international politicians to his expose of ‘passive welfare` and how this nation sets a course for the future.

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Possession
Price: AUD 54.99 Author: Bain Attwood

Bain Attwood brings his expertise in the subject of colonialism to the fore in this comprehensive look at the treaties white settlers made with Aboriginal people and the manner in which these were recorded. A manner that has proved, in many cases, to be advantageous to the white settlers.

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Hell`s Heroes
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Roger Maynard

Naoetsu camp was where hundreds of Australian prisoners of war were taken when they were captured in Singapore in 1942. Arguably the worst POW camp in Japan, this book utilizes the written and oral histories to hand to tell their story.

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The Letters of George & Elizabeth Bass
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Miriam Estensen

Imagine being this couple. George has returned from five years in the colony of New South Wales and met and fallen in love with Elizabeth. They are married three months when Elizabeth finds herself alone as George takes to sea once more bound for Australia. The surviving correspondence between them is the subject of this book.

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The French Explorers and Sydney
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Colin Dyer

Jean-Francois de Galaup de Laperouse arrived in Botany Bay in January 1788 and was the first of seven French explorers. Ten ships and twelve hundred men (and a few women) would spend almost fourteen months exploring off the coast of what they referred to in papers as “Sidney”.

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On the Home Front
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Kate Darian-Smith

First published in 1990, this new edition is served well by the passage of time as more anecdotes and archival material has come to light of what it was to be a Melburnian between 1939 and 1945. It is particularly interesting, as suggested by the author, that the Melbourne in which she initially researched this book in the 1980s is also a distant place compared with the Melbourne of this young century.

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Moments in Time
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Laura Back & Laura Webster

Dioramas are sculptured models with painted backgrounds and could perhaps be considered the forerunners to 3D models and computer-generated models. The subject of this book is the dioramas held at the Australian War Memorial.

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After the Orphanage
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Suellen Murphy et al

The phrase ‘in their own words’ could be a sub-title for this book as it draws on the oral histories of forty people who were in institutionalised care in Victoria and who each left their individual orphanage during the years 1945 to 1983. They are now aged in their forties to seventies and each of their recollections start on the day they left care. Those of us who have grown up in our family home can only begin to imagine what it would have meant to us and how it would have shaped us to be placed in an orphanage. It is a situation we must imagine if we are to fully appreciate how our society operates and what our collective response should be to those who need to be found a home.

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Convicts
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Michael Bogle

1868 was the year the last convict ship sailed into Western Australia – an amazingly recent date in the history of the world. In just over one hundred pages, the author presents an extraordinarily detailed account of transportation to Australia and encapsulates the far-reaching effects of those journeys.

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Sea Of Dangers
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Geoffrey Blainey

This is the story of Captain James Cook on his journey of discovery and his rival, French merchant ship commander Jean de Surville. Geoffrey Blainey explains the motivations both men had for traversing the globe, their beliefs about new lands awaited, and their individual, remarkable characters.

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Churchill and Australia
Price: AUD 55.00 Author: Graham Freudenberg

Gough Whitlam's advice for a would-be historian to "go to the documents" is cited as the guiding hand for this author in writing this history of the uneasy and fateful relationship Winston Churchill had with Australia. This relationship would span the first fifty years of the twentieth century and would see a fundamental shift in the way Australians perceived their British heritage.

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The Brickmasters 1788-2008
Price: AUD 75.00 Author: Ron Ringer

This could just as easily be titled Building Sydney and the Nation. It is a detailed and surprisingly interesting history of the Austral Brick company, begun in 1908, and still flourishing today. Through the prism of this specific company, we in fact come to learn an enormous amount about the nature of city development.

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Lost Explorers
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Ed Wright

In William John Wills' words about looking for "something to turn up", which of course it did not, you have one of the reasons for expeditions failing and explorers being lost: bad luck. You also have poor preparation, insurmountable natural conditions, and conflicts between peoples. Ed Wright travels the world through, as he puts it, eighty graves, depicting the lives and deaths or presumed deaths of eighty explorers.

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First Australians
Price: AUD 89.99 Author: Rachel Perkins

This book accompanies the groundbreaking television series shown on SBS earlier this year. The series was six years in the making and will stand as the first comprehensive assessment of the way a peoples' world was changed forever with the arrival of ships to their shore.

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The Place for a Village
Price: AUD 60.00 Author: Gary Presland

This book explains the environmental factors that dictated how Melbourne developed.

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Australia's Empire
Price: AUD 99.95 Author: Deryck M. Schreuder & Stuart Ward

One in a series of books from Oxford University Press, this book attempts to define the Australian experience of British imperial influence. It is sometimes easy to forget that a relatively few short years ago, many white Australians looked to England as

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North to Matsumae: Australian Whalers to Japan
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Noreen Jones

Two Australian maritime stories lie at the core of this exploration of Australian-Japanese relations and the various opinions held on the practice by Japan of whaling. The ships - Lady Rowena and Eamont - give an historical framework for the author to inv

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The Men Of The Line
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Pattie Wright

The 'men' of the title areAustralians and the 'line' is the Thai-Burma railway. This is the story of the survivors, those prisoners of war who unexpectedly found themselves enslaved and building a railway for the Japanese Emperor and who could subsequentl

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Strangers in a Foreign Land
Price: AUD 26.95 Author: Maggie MacKellar

Another quality collaboration between The Miegunyagh Press and State Library of Victoria, the journal of Niel Black of the Western District allows us to delve into the world as it was for this early settler and his companions in their new land.

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