Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney Rn by Suzanne Rickard; Peter Cochrane (Foreword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1 ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urg ...Show more
Once in Broome by Sally Bin Demin
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 1950s.
The First World War by Cyril Falls
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
The years 1914 to 1918 saw Europe engaged in a conflict involving a greater area and a greater number of men than history had ever before recorded. In this book, Captain Cyril Falls, known in British academic and governmental circles as an expert in military history, discusses the military side of World ...Show more
Emperors, Kings and Queens: The History of Connections, Marriages and Feuds Between the Royal Families of Great Britain and Europe by Sonya Newland
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Drama, plotting and intrigue - the history of Europe's rulers plays as well as any soap opera or film. Now learn all about the history of connections, marriages and feuds between the royal families of Great Britain and Europe. The book is presented chronologically, with accessible text, stunning illustr ...Show more
To the Last Ridge: The World War I Experiences of W.H.Downing by W.H. Downing
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Written just after the heat of the battle and in the language of the time, this is the personal account of an ordinary soldier's experience of one of the most horrific series of battles ever fought. Fleurbaix, Bapaume, Beaumetz, Lagincourt, Bullecourt, The Menin Road, Villers-Bretonneux, Peronne and Mon ...Show more
Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln P. Paine
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people fi ...Show more
Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society, Susie Orbach's new introduction explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. In an age where women want to be sexy, nurturing, domestic goddesses, confident at work - an equal to thei ...Show more
Church of Spies - The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A radical reinterpretation of the wartime Pope. Born Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII is perhaps the most vilified and detested Pope in modern history. Pius XII and the Vatican are thought to have appeased Hitler and betrayed international Jewry by staying silent during the Holocaust. The accusation has f ...Show more
Comrade Ambassador Whitlam's Beijing Envoy by Stephen Fitzgerald
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Modern Australia was in part defined by its early embrace of China. A turning from the White Australia Policy of the 1950s to to the country's acceptance of Asian immigration and engagement with Asian neighbours. It saw the far-sighted establishment of an embassy in Beijing in the 1970s by Gough Whitlam ...Show more
The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages by Sean Martin
$17.99 AUD
Category: History
Catharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. Flourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy, the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting and non-violence. They believed themselves to be the heirs of the true heritag ...Show more
Firestick Ecology: Fairdinkum Science in Plain English by Vic Jurskis
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Aborigines came to Australia and burnt out most of the trees and bushes. The megafauna starved whilst eucalypts, herbs, grasses and mesofauna flourished. The ancient culture survived an ice age, global warming and hugely rising seas, forging economies in woodlands and deserts. Europeans doused the fires ...Show more