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
Poor Souls They PerishedThe Cataraqui - Australia's Worst Shipwreck by Andrew Lemon
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Shipwreck on King Island, Australia in 1845.
Marching as to War by Donald Ernest Charlwood
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
"In the late 1980s Don Charlwood was addressing students in a Year 9 class, who were studying his novel All the green year. At question time a boy of fourteen or fifteen kept reverting the discussion to Charlwood's first book, No moon tonight, in which the author describes World War II Bomber Command in ...Show more
Journeys Into Night by Donald Ernest Charlwood
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Autobiography of WW2 Bomber Command RAAF navigator.
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her. At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Cath ...Show more
Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of--an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives, our societies, and our planet. "We learn that, if we were a bit more curious about our clothes, they w ...Show more
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on ...Show more
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers, their routes and the act of walking itself.
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England.'Weir's history books are as gripping as novels' The TimesMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies - yet, as Alison Weir shows in this group biography, many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Age ...Show more
The Langlands by Edward (Ted) Stephens K.S.J.
$36.95 AUD
Category: History
IN 1840 ROBERT LANGLANDS, A YOUNG SCOTTISH MAN TOOK A HUGE STEP FOR LOVE AND LEFT HIS FAMILY TO EMBARK ON A ROMANTIC ESCAPADE ACROSS THE OCEAN... He shocked his family by deciding to pursue his lady friend who had been deported to Australia for a minor misdemeanour.
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$44.99 AUD
$49.99 (10% off)
Category: History
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not w ...Show more