The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Eur ...Show more
Thomas Hannay - Travelling Photographer - In the Colony of Victoria 1858-1859
$99.99 AUD
Category: History
An incredible collection of photography capturing many varied facets of life in Western Victoria, by Thomas Hannay, a photographer who travelled the region with his camera and horse-drawn film laboratory from 1858-1859. Includes photographs of Victoria's first permanent European settlements just 25 year ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Flinders by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead - a pre ...Show more
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
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo. Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History. Based on her own sweeping research, an award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that we are, and always have be ...Show more
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' Telegraph What was it really like to rule and be ru ...Show more
Moving to the Lucky Country - The Clanceys of Cork and Glovers of Edinburgh by Maureen Glazebrook (Text by, Notes by, Appendix by, Research by, Footnotes by, Editor, Original Author, Preface by, Cover Design by, Prepared for Publication by, Original editor)
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
A family history about the Clancy family of Ardagh, Co. Cork, Ireland and the Glover family of Haddington and Edinburgh, Scotland. It includes the history of both families in their home country and the migration of William Clancy and Ellen Hegarty and their family to Van Diemen's Land in 1837 on the ill ...Show more
No Moon Tonight by D. E. Charlwood
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Bomber Command's war against the Third Reich. It is one of the best personal accounts ever written by someone who served in Bomber Command during World War II. Don Charlwood was a navigator with the Royal Australian Air Force based at RAF Elsham Wolds in ...Show more
Settlers Under Sail by Donald Ernest Charlwood
$16.95 AUD
Category: History
Commissioned by the Victorian (Australia) Government's History Advisory Council to commemorate, in 1978, the centenary of the wreck of the Loch Ard, this book celebrates the era of sailing ship immigration to Australia and tells the story of the famous Loch Ard. It contains many fascinating photos and s ...Show more