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many stunning coloured illus. H/c canvas bound & boxed. - slight damage to endpaper & box slightly cracked.
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To the South There is a Great Land - Cook, Banks & Aust.
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Tobruk 1941
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List price AU$49.95 Stock reduction price AU$34.95 You save AU$15.00!
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Primarily a photographic history, this is a fascinating, intense and moving view of everyday survival and fortitude in near unendurable circumstances during the seige of Tobruk.p No surrender ...
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Topics in Australian History Series: Commentary & Documents: National Identity & Consciousness
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Topics in Australian History Series: Wealth Beneath the Soil
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Traditional and Modern Building with Stone
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Tucker and Company - the First 150 Years 1838-1988
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quality book.
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Via Torres Strait - a Maritime History
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Our Price: AU$38.00
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Illus.
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Voyage to Disaster
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List Price AU$54.95
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Mutiny, murder, rape, torture; a priceless treasure fuelling the basest human greed; a courageous journey in search of rescue - the story of the 'Batavia', wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629, has been part of the myth and legend of Australian history.
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Wild Notes, from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel
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facsimile with intro.
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