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The Fatal Shore
by Robert Hughes
An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly...
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Jewish History Books & Ephemera
Australian Defence Heritage: The Buildings, Establishments and Sites of Our Military History That Have Become Part of the National Estate
by Frank Doak
The Fairfax Library, Australia, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Jeff Isaacs. Covers the various military sites throughout Australia,some 200 defence occupied buildings have been classified by the Australian Heritage Commission and a further 100 have been listed by the National Trust. The book was produced as a contribution to Australia’s bi-centennial, it is a tribute to successive generations of service personnel who have helped. 208 pages....
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NZ$38.96
The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia
by Simon Ryan
Paperback / softback. New. This book is an investigation of the presumptions and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the unadorned observations they would have us believe. It scrutinises the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.
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NZ$84.19
The History of Tasmania
by West, John (edited by A G L Shaw)
Angus & Robertson, 1971. Book. Good. Hardcover. hardback, Royal 8vo, page edges age-toned, bookplate of a previous owner on front free endpaper o/w a good tightly bound and clean copy in a worn, loose fitting & creased dust jacket that has paper and tape repairs to verso extremities, b&w plates, 699pp.
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NZ$31.97
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Kangaroo Island Sketchbook [Inscribed by Author]
by Newnham, W.H
Adelaide: Rigby. 1975. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations by Kate Glade-Wright. Inscribed and Signed by Author to previous owner. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 63 pages. 29 sketches from across Kangaroo Island accompanied by stories of the Island's past. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$22.26
Time Gentlemen Please! A History of Western District Inns 1840-1915
by Marriott, Pamela M
Corowa: The Author, 2001. xix, 327 pages. Many b/w photos. Appendices, bibliography and indices. Pictorial card wrappers (very slightly worn). Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.
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NZ$61.23
The Nature of Cleland
by Hardy, Anne
Adelaide: State Publishing. 1989. Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 96 pages.. . 2nd Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$27.83
50 Years of Powering Western Australia: From Western Colleries to Wesfarmers Coal
by Graham-Taylor, Sue
Collie, WA: Wesfarmers. 2003. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White/Sepia Photographs. 111 pages. With a Foreword by Sir Charles Court. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Softcover.
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NZ$33.40
WHALING AROUND AUSTRALIA
by Colwell, Max
Adelaide: Rigby Limited. Very Good+. 1977. Paperback. 0727003526 . Looks unread, bibliography, index. 250gms weight; Seal Books; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 180 pages .
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NZ$17.25
River, Road and Rail: A History of Kogarah Municipality
by Jim Fletcher [Editor]
Kogarah Municipality Council, Kogarah, NSw, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Daphne Kingston. Published to commemorate the centenary of the incorporation of Kogarah as a Municipality. Part one, Defining the Boundaries, includes coverage of the Aboriginal inhabitants and the early European settlement of the area, taking the story to 1885 when the Municipality of Kogarah was estalished. Part Two, Weaving the Social Fabric, records subsequent progress. development...
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NZ$27.83
Memories of Vietnam
by Maddock, Kenneth (Editor)
Australia: Random House, 1991 483 pages. This book has a slightly rolled spine and is a little yellowed around the edges. The cover is a little worn. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good. Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).
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NZ$47.31
Ninety Years at Torrens Park The Scotch College Story
by Read, Peter & Pouw-Bray, Alex
Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. 2010. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint copy in a Mint Dustjacket. A New Copy. Dustjacket protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 367 pages. This book provides a comprehensive account of Scotch's...
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NZ$89.06
Australia in the Depression
by Hugh Anderson
Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Hill of Context, 1972 79 page slim booklet. The book is slightly worn. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good. Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).
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NZ$44.53
Tom Price From Stonecutter to Premier
by McCarthy, Stephanie
Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. 2015. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 421 pages. Tom Price rose from dire poverty to become Premier, through personal determination embedded in a clear set of principles and values. His story is an inspiration. . New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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NZ$44.47
Framing Ned Kelly. Paintings By Sidney Nolan 1945-47
by Martin-Chew, Louise
Sydney: Harcourt Brace Joanovich, 1992. 17.8cm x 24cm (oblong). 38 pages. Many illustrations in colour and b/w. Bibliography. Pictorial card wrappers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.
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NZ$36.74
Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences 1849-1894
by Bartley, Nehemiah
Sydney: John Ferguson. 1978[1896]. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 424 pages. Bartley was a colonial rover and speculator. Born in England he joined relatives in Tasmania in 1849 at the age of nineteen. Wanderlust led him to California then back to Victoria and Sydney - and finally to the goldfields. In 1854, his uncle...
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NZ$22.26
Going It Alone.
by MANDLE, W. F
(Victoria), The Penguin Press, (1978). . 8vo; pp. 264, bibliography, index; original brown cloth, dustjacket; spine cocked; otherwise a very good copy.
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NZ$21.15
A Place of Consequence: A Pictorial History of Fremantle
by Reece, R and Pascoe, R
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1985. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Sepia-toned photographs. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. x, 159 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.
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NZ$20.04
Dame Roma: Glimpses of a Glorious Life
by Magarey, Susan (Editor)
Adelaide: Axiom Publishing. 2002. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 366 pages. A series of essays by many people who knew this remarkable woman - the first Australian woman Q.C., first female judge of SA's Supreme Court, first woman Chancellor of an Australian University, first Australian women to become a Governor of a State and the founding chair of the Australian Human Rights Commission. The...
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NZ$38.96
Outback Spirit
by Williams, Sue
Melbourne: Michael Joseph. 2010. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 290 pages. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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NZ$16.70
The Passage of the Damned: What happened to the men and women of the Lady Shore mutiny
by Hardie, Elsbeth
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. MINT - a NEW copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 245 pages. In an extraordinary move, in 1797, the British government pressed a small group of French and German prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps, gave them firearms and placed them as guards on a ship carrying sixty-six convict women and two convict men to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny some months into the voyage in which the captain...
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NZ$33.34
A Field List of the Birds of South Australia
by No Author noted
Adelaide: South Australian Ornithological Assoc.. 1978. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Good Condition. Staplebound. Several faint marks to covers and light creasing to upper edge. Black & white map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 15 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.
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NZ$20.04
Australia Since the Coming of Man
by Ward, Russel
Sydney: Lansdowne Press. 1987. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 254 pages. . Revised and Updated Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$15.58
Blankets on the Wire: The Cowra Breakout and Its Aftermath
by Steven Bullard; Keiko Tamura
Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Australian War Memorial, 2006 As new. Text written in both English and Japanese. 121 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good.
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NZ$89.06
The Aborigines
by Gibbs, R.M
Melbourne: Longman Cheshire. 1974. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 120 pages. Attempts to provide an introduction to the origin and culture of the Aboriginal people of Australia. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$16.70
Poenamo
by John Logan Campbell
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd 1952 reprint. Pages clean and bright, inscription on first page, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.
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NZ$29.74
