Search Results: Authors starting with M from Elizabeth's Bookshops

Australian National Centre of Excellence for Marit, 2009. Softcover. FINE. Papers from the 2nd Australian Seminar on iron, steel and steamship wrecks. Sections: Regional Studies; Search; survey and Recording Method; Site formation Studies; Experimental Archaeology, Exhibition and museum Ships; Artefacts and Artefact Management; Wreck Access and Site Management; Matierial Sceince and Conservation; Naval Wrecks; Submarines; and Colonial Trade; with an abridge transcript of a concurrent Conservator's conference. pp. viii, 173 illusts #0720 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1943 UK. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good +. Very Good + copy in poor dustjacket (jacket printed, interestingly, on reverse of another book jacket as part of the war economy drive), gift inscription on fep, 1944. First Edition. 418 p. : map ; 22 cm.#070522Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s, and he played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. MacArthur received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign. This made him along with his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the U.S. Army, and the only one conferred the rank of field marshal in the Philippine Army.Raised in a military family in the… Read More

Abacus, 2006. Softcover. VG+ (Very Good plus). Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the Second World War were so scarred by their experiences that afterwards they could not discuss them even with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment was, literally, incomprehensible. But some prisoners were determined that posterity should know how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death or transported on 'hellships', used as slave labour - most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway - and how thousands died from tropical diseases. They risked torture or execution to keep secret diaries and make drawings that they hid wherever they could, sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades.The diaries tell of inhumanity and degradation, but there are also inspirational stories of courage, comradeship and compassion. When men have unwillingly plumbed the depths of human misery, said one prisoner, the artist Ronald Searle, they form a silent understanding of what… Read More

Agus & Robertson, 1932. Hardcover. Original cloth. Very Good for its age.. With an introduction by Sir I. Hamilton. World War I8vo. Original cloth. (126 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ). With frontisp., title-vign. and text-illusts. by Angus MacDonald.Some foxing, rubbed cloth to top of spine cover. Sound copy. #231021 First Edition.Australian soldiers adopted a variety of animals and birds as mascots and pets. They served as morale boosters and provided a familiar and welcome source of comfort and consolation. They included wallabies, kangaroos, rabbits, possums, parrots, cockatoos and kookaburras. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover. Original cloth Very Good for its age.

The Author,Farrer, A.C.T., 2009. Softcover. Fine. Welsh family.  |  Johnson family.  |  Scottish -- New South Wales -- Nambucca -- Genealogy.  |  New South Wales -- Genealogy.  |  Scotland -- Genealogy.  |  Nambucca River Region (N.S.W.) -- Genealogy.  |  Nambucca River Region (N.S.W.) -- History. #0521 xiv, 361 p. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports. ; 25 cm.  gift inscriptions (from author's featured family). Local History Biography Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover Fine

Blue Moon Erotica, 2001. Who are these young, beautiful women, and who is this man who provides them with prolonged spasms of ecstasy, leaving them whimpering, limp and grateful things? They are otherwise ordinary people, but share the same relentless need to reach the heights of sensual pleasure by submitting to the lowest of degradations. Marc Merlin can unleash their erupting sexuality—but by appointment only. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Scribners, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. Traces the nature of the whole colonial experience in one of the stranger corners of the globe: Newfoundland - Britain's first and oldest colony until controversial confederation with Canada in 1949. Illustrated Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Hesperian Press, 1993. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. MINING West Australiana xiii, 173 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 22 cm. #060123 First EditionExperiences of Alick Macgeorge during the Kalgoorlie goldrush in the 1890s. Contains descriptions of interactions with Aboriginal people. | Doolette, Dorham, 1872-1925. | Pearce, Sam. | Gold miners -- Western Australia -- Kalgoorlie Region -- Biography. | Gold mines and mining -- Western Australia -- Kalgoorlie Region -- History. | Prospecting -- Western Australia -- Kalgoorlie Region -- History. | Settlement and contacts - Colonisation. | Race relations. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover AS NEW COPY!

Melbourne University Press, 1994. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. AUSTRALIANAFirst Edition.Sir Ernest Scott (21 June 1867 – 6 December 1939) was an Australian historian and professor of history at the University of Melbourne from 1913 to 1936.Scott laid the foundations of a historical profession in this country and trained Australians to understand their colonial past as a guide to nationhood.There is a common belief that Australia acquired history only when it grew up and threw off its colonial origins after the Second World War. Yet earlier generations of Australians created their own histories to express their sense of who they were and what they might be. This book reveals that the quest for an Australian past found its way into our universities and schools from the early years of the Commonwealth.Ernest Scott was the most prolific teacher and writer of history in inter-war Australia. A self-taught, degreeless professor, he laid the foundations of a historical profession in this… Read More

Angus & Robertson, 1951. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good +. Edgewear to jacket.. MARITIME EXPLORATION AUSTRALIANA AboriginalMackaness's classic biography of Bligh revised and updated from its original publication in 1931.Biography of William Bligh ; includes impressions of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania (pp.60-64) ; further observations about the customs of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania (243-246). xvi, 573 p : illus., ports., maps (1 fold.) facsims ; 24 cm. #200424 Bibliography: p. [535]-554. Rex Nan KIvell Collection NK7210. Bligh, William, 1754-1817 Bounty (Ship) Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850 Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous Race relations - Attitudes Technology - Fire - Fire making Tasmania (Tas) Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS was a British officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator (Governor of NSW). He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his… Read More

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2023. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. AUSTRALIAN FLORA VINICULTURE  An honest, very funny account of a couple's move to the country for a fresh start. Bursting with optimism and a can-do attitude, they're on a steep learning curve as they establish a vineyard and learn how things are done in the country.I imagined lounging on a veranda overlooking folds of hills striped with vines. I'd be clothed in linen and surrounded by friends. On the table would be tumblers of wine we'd picked in last year's harvest. Then we arrived at Cockatoo Hill and discovered a dump.When Deirdre and her husband Roger decide to turn a sheep paddock into a vineyard, they are following the centuries-old tradition of family winemaking. Bit by bit they clean up the land, plant vines, protect them through storms and drought and turn a shack into a cottage. Slowly they start to read the landscape, appreciate the talents of locals and learn what to do when a snake passes by.This is a humorous memoir with… Read More

University of Western Australia Press, 2000. Softcover. Fine. WEST AUSTRALIANA LITERARY Kenneth (Seaforth) Mackenzie was an Australian poet and novelist. In August 1944 he witnessed the Japanese break-out at the Cowra prisoner of war camp, which became the subject of his third novel, Dead Men Rising.Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell (Seaforth) Mackenzie (1913-1955), poet and novelist, was born on 25 September 1913 in South Perth, son of Australian-born parents Hugh Mackenzie, farmer, and his wife Marguerite Christina, née Pryde-Paterson. After his parents were divorced in 1919, Kenneth was raised by his mother and maternal grandfather. Educated at South Perth and Pinjarra state schools, and (as a boarder) at Guildford Grammar School, he took no interest in sport and studied only when he felt inclined. At 16 he ran away from school and refused to return. Finding Muresk Agricultural College even more uncongenial than boarding school, he entered the University of Western Australia in 1932 to read… Read More

Boolarong Press, 2014. Softcover. VG+ (Very Good plus). The initial Australian and British victory over Rommel’s Afrika Korps on Easter Monday 1941 at Tobruk was Germany’s first defeat in World War II. Incongruously the vital actions of Queensland’s 2/15 Battalion on that day have been generally ignored. For the first time, this investigation places that ‘lost’ body of infantrymen nearly four miles from the outer perimeter near El Adem crossroads. There they were dug in around two gallant Royal Horse Artillery batteries which incurred heavy losses in turning around a concerted Panzer attack. In that battle the 2/15’s A Company delivered the final blow to the accompanying German infantry, led by the formerly invincible Lt-Colonel Gustav Ponath who was killed in the field. This ably researched and intriguing episode redresses the brave 2/15’s subsequent sense of injustice. Revised Edition. pp. xviii, 181 illusts #0619 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of… Read More

Little Hills Press, 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA BIOGRAPHYCornerstone Series 192 p. ; 20 cm. #301223 Mackerras, Catherine -- Biography Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover Near Fine

North Sydney, N.S.W. : Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, 2009. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. NEW ZEALANDxx, 401 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.  #280623MacKillop, Mary, Saint 1842-1909 -- Correspondence.  |  Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart -- Correspondence.  |  Nuns -- Australia -- Correspondence.  |  Nuns -- New Zealand -- Correspondence. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover AS NEW COPY!

Routledge, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. pp. vii, 184 illusts #050322 (Very respectable ex-library copy. Sound and tight.)In Architecture, Actor and Audience Mackintosh explores the contribution the design of a theatre can make to the theatrical experience, and examines the failings of many modern theatres which despite vigorous defence from the architectural establishment remain unpopular with both audiences and theatre people. A fascinating and provocative book.'Mackintosh's considerable achievement is to turn what might so easily have become simply anecdote or a display of professional partiality for this of that form, into the subject of a detailed historical analysis, pursued with rigour and architectural understanding.' - Theatre Research International'Thank goodness for this visionary book. ... if we wish to build playhouses which help provoke the energy, buzz and interaction of good theatre ... this enthralling and truthful book provides a marvelous foundation stone. Read it. Build on it ...… Read More

Hachette Australia, 2013. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANAAren'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 horror. Long-buried bones and axes hint at the violence before Captain Cook arrived and claimed the place for England. And then the horror truly began. From its earliest days, the isolation of life on this rocky outcrop took its toll.Robert Macklin, author of the bestselling SAS SNIPER, tells the vivid, bewitching story of how a unique lifestyle and culture evolved amongst the almost two thousand inhabitants. From a brutal penal colony, a refuge for descendants of the Bounty mutineers when they outgrew Pitcairn Island in 1856, to the murder of Janelle Patton in 2002, Norfolk Island is exposed like never before. A place full of shadows and wrongful… Read More

Black Lace Erotica: Erotic Fiction Written by Wome, 2002. Set in the Klondike Gold Rush. Miss Rosie is the town's premier brothel madam and she specializes in providing anything that the few thousand horny miners need when a long way from home... Lighthearted, arousing historical fun. Voyeurism, FF MMF Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Lansdowne Press, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine. 160 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. #0621 (Inscription on fep.) Gardens. Fruit trees. Cultivation.  |  Gardens. Trees. Cultivation.  |  Fruit trees.  |  Fruit-culture.  |  Trees.  |  Tree planting. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover Near Fine

Black Lace Erotic Fiction Written by Women for Wom, 2006. A delicious twist on the modern metrofem scenario of if-I-pay-for-it-there-are-no-strings. (But as we all know, there has never been such a thing as a 'free lunch' anyway!) Chick-Lit on Viagra.Sophie Taylor's lazy-girl lifestyle is about to unravel. She's been with partner Rex for seven years, and now he wants more commitment. She never planned for a long-term relationship with him. Since a drunken agreement where he offered to fulfil her sexual fantasies for seven years in return for a cash loan, they've drifted into a cosy partnership. Yet still Sophie has a fascination with paying men for sex. As a birthday treat Rex poses as a male escort in one of Brighton's posh seafront hotels. It's fun, but it's not enough. Sophie needs the thrill of the real thing; the forbidden element that turns her on and is missing from her life with Rex. And so begins her descent into Brighton's sleazier nightlife, where she meets Wolfie, the genuine gigolo… Read More