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Backs to the Wall: A Larrikin on the Western Front by Robert Macklin
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
'In that hour was born in me a fear that lasted throughout the whole winter. It was the dread of dying in the mud, going down in that stinking morass and though dead being conscious throughout the ages. Waves of fear at times threatened to overwhelm me...a little weakness, a little slackening of control ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it was wrecked off the eastern tip of New Guinea. Scrambling into a longboat, Narcisse and the other survivors crossed almost 1000 kilometres of the Coral Sea before reaching the shores of Far North Quee ...Show more
Dark Paradise by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Aren't remote South Pacific islands supposed to be paradise? Perhaps, from a distance, Norfolk Island looks a peaceful place lush with tall pines. But look closer and that idyllic facade is shattered. For all of the 220 years we have known it, Norfolk's story has been one of darkness, pain, rage and hor ...Show more
Dark Paradise Norfolk Island by Robert Macklin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Aren't remote South Pacific islands supposed to be paradise? Perhaps, from a distance, Norfolk Island looks a peaceful place lush with tall pines. But look closer and that idyllic facade is shattered. For all of the 220 years we have known it, Norfolk's story has been one of darkness, pain, rage and hor ...Show more
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer by Robert Macklin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as well ...Show more
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
While English-born soldiers, sailors and surveyors have claimed pride of place among the explorers of the young New South Wales colony, the real pathfinder was a genuine native-born Australian. Hamilton Hume, a man with a profound understanding of the Aboriginal people and an almost mystical relationshi ...Show more
Here, There Are Dragons by Witness J; Robert Macklin (Foreword by); Julian Burnside (Foreword by); Maria Stojkovic (Cover Design by)
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
In May 2018, Witness J, a former military and civilian intelligence officer, became Australia's first recorded secret prisoner. After the first month in solitary confinement, he was to spend the remaining portion of his 455 day sentence in the Alexander Maconochie Centre's notorious sexual-offender's wi ...Show more
Kevin Rudd: The Biography by Robert Macklin
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
When Kevin Rudd became Leader of the Opposition in December 2006, dramatically ousting Kim Beazley, few Australians knew who he was. Eleven months later - and even more dramatically - he ousted John Howard to become Prime Minister of Australia, in the biggest electoral swing since 1975. Hawke, Keating, ...Show more
One False Move by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
It is a story of sheer courage and skill - incredible bravery combined with the precision of a surgeon - as these men defused deadly mines, often dropped in residential areas. The detonators were frequently booby trapped by the Nazis, and these Australians and their British colleagues came to recognise ...Show more
Redback One: The True Story of an Australian SAS Hero by Robert Macklin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
'This is what an SAS career is really like' AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE MAGAZINE Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the extraordinary and dangerous world of secret combat operations in this explosive, behind-the-scenes look at life inside the SAS. A world where capture means torture o ...Show more
The Big Fella: The Rise And Rise Of BHP Billiton by Robert Macklin, Peter Thompson
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. This is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great bourses of the world.