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A Man of Intelligence: The Life of Captain Eric Nave, Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary
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A People Called Pointon c.1730-1988
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An Irresistible Temptation: The True Story of Jane New and a Colonial Scandal
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In 1829 at the Supreme Court in Sydney, the bewitching Jane New was sentenced to death. Her crime: shoplifting a bolt of printed French silk. But was she guilty? Many had their doubts.
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An Island Unto Itself: William Dampier and New Holland
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The biography and history of W. Dampier, his times and exploration in WA 1688-1699.
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An Octogenarian's Reminiscences
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James Bonwick, a teacher, author, historian and archivist, was born in 1817 at Lingfield, Surrey, the son of a carpenter. Having worked and travelled around the world, James has written his memories ...
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Anzac Cove to Hollywood: The Story of Tom Skeyhill, Master of Deception
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Anzac Digger: An Engineer in Gallipoli and France
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Anzac Doctor: The Life of Sir Neville Howse, V.C.
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Arthur Blackburn, VC: An Australian Hero, his Men, and their Two World Wars
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Australasiatic Reminiscences of Twenty-three Years' Wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias
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Australia Twice Traversed
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Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time
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Australian Portrait Gallery and Memoirs of Representative Colonial Men
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Australian Railwayman: From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner
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In this book Ron gives vivid account of not only his career, but of the camaraderie of the greater railway community often experienced in the most trying of conditions. For almost three decades he was 'on the wallaby', with postings scattered over half the continent, and more often than not, living rough. Ron Fitch gives an account of all this and more, of laying track and the remarkable breed of men who do so, of advances in line-building techniques, of derailments and floods ad washaways, of wrangles over attempts to implement standard gauge, an of the politics of railways.
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Bean's Gallipoli: The Diaries of Australia's Official War Correspondent
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Black Jack McEwen
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Black Robinson: Protector of Aborig
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Blinco From Hedgerley to Australia: An Account of Henry and Alfred Blinco's Migration and Resettlement in Australia
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Two Blinco brothers from Hedgerley in Buckinghamshire, England left English farm life to become successful father figures for a vast family spread across Australia. This account details their origins, migration and resettlement ...
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Bowyangs and Boomerangs: Reminiscences of 40 Years Prospecting in Australia and Tasmania
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Bygone Days on the Tamar
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Calvert's Golden West: Albert Frederick Calvert, a Biography an Bibliography
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Albert Frederick Calvert claimed that he was born in Australia of an Australian born father. If this is correct, this would make him the only Australian born author to have ...
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Captain Bligh's Petticoat Mutiny
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Captain Cook: The Life, Death and Legacy of History's Greatest Explorer
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Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
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Catherine McMahon: A Remarkable Convict Woman
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This meticulously researched story of Irish born Catherine McMahon is unusual in that it not only covers her time as a convict in Van Diemen's Land but also her life before conviction, and perhaps more importantly, after she was declared 'free by servitude'.
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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
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Charles Kingsford Smith is one of Australia's most loved heroes. In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron. Along with Charles Ulm, he was the first to conquer the Pacific by air ...
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Courage a Grace: Dame Mary Gilmore
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Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753-1782
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Daniel Solander, the 18th century Swedish naturalist and traveller was a pioneer of the scientific study of natural history and one of the earliest collectors in New Holland.P For many ...
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Devil's Marble: John Flynn's Grave in Central Australia
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The story of the Devil's Marble that was placed over the Central Australian grave of John Flynn - 'Flynn of the Inland'. It is set against the background of the inland loved by Flynn, and includes the struggle of an Aboriginal tribe in having the Marble removed from the grave ...
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Diary of a Lady's Maid: Government House in Colonial Australia
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'A very busy day. Lord and Lady Carrington arrived from England. Miss Harbord, 3 Gentlemen in Suite, 3 children, two nurses, two maids, 2 valets. Every room occupied.
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Dictionary of Australasian Biography
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Almost 2000 concise biographies of Australasian colonialists from 1855-1892.
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Dictionary of Australian Biography
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Includes 1030 concise biographies of Australians closely connected with Australia, and ho died before the end of 1942 ...
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Ernest Giles: Explorer and Traveller 1835-1897
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Between 1872 and 1876 Ernest Giles led 5 expeditions into Australia's western
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Explorations in Australia: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 1858-1862
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Fifty Years Afloat: The Autobiography of a Ferryman
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'Fifty Years Afloat' details the Rottnest and Swan River ferry boats and the men who ran them.P Hugh Cameron's interesting and well-written account of his experience in small vessels, particularly ...
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Finlayson: A Family History of Scottish Pioneers of South Australia, William and Helen Finlayson and Their Known Descendants
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William came to be a missionary to the aborigines. This goal was only partly carried out, but he and his family his play a significant part in early church life ...
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Flynn of the Inland
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Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush Hospitals. His magnificent vision, formed as he travelled on the ...
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Forgotten Valour: The Story of Arthur Sullivan VC, Shy War Hero
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'Forgotten Valour' is the story of Arthur Sullivan VC and other Australian soldiers who enlisted in the Great War but went on to fight in the Russian Civil War ...
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Forty-Five Years Experience in North Queensland 1861-1905
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'Forty-Five Years Experience in North Queensland' is the written memoirs of W.R.O. Hill from when he was a young boy in England from 1844, through to his experiences in Queensland in 1861 to 1905.
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Founders of Australia and their Descendants
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Founders of Australia is two books in one volume - a valuable account of exploration and foundation of European settlement in Australia, together with a fine record of many pioneering families.
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Genealogical Database of Australia's Travelling Showpeople
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Was your Australian ancestor in the circus? Or some other travelling show? The 'Genealogical Database of Australia's Travelling Showpeople' is designed to assist you to make preliminary inquiries about that long-lost circus or other itinerant show business ancestor.
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Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872-1874
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The book consists of Giles' diaries kept during his first two expeditions from central Australia, (i.e. the area around Ayres Rock, now Uluru), west in search of a route ...
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Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, painter, diarist, pioneer
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The full story of Georgiana Huntly McCrae, illegitimate daughter of a Scottish duke, professional painter in the 1820s Edinburgh and settler's wife in early Melbourne is told here for the first time.
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Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times and Revolutionary Vision for Australia
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The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. Macquarie had a vision shared by few others that New Holland had the potential to become 'one of the greatest and most flourishing colonies belonging to the British Empire' ...
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Great Pioneer Women of the Outback
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He Came from Australia: Lieutenant Percival Ralph, MM, MID (53rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force)
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As well as a brief outline of the history of the 53rd Battalion in the last years of the war, this is primarily the story of Lieutenant Percy Ralph ...
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Hell West and Crooked: A Living Legend, A Real-Life Crocodile Dundee
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In this remarkable autobiographical account, Tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures ...
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Henry Lawson: A Life-S
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Ill-Starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin
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Amid the Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), France and Britain dispatched rival voyages of discovery to complete the mapping of Australia and 'advance the limits of science'. Led by naval captains Nicolas ...
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In Australian Tropics
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Facsimilies of the 1909 edition. In this reprint of the original, the author (Alfred Searcy), a customs officer who, for fourteen years was stationed at Port Darwin in the Northern ...
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In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier
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Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his patrols, he was eventually tried in 1891 for the murder of two Aboriginal men, and was posted to an even more remote frontier in the Top End. ...
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Jacka VC: Australian Hero
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Albert Jacka was the people's hero of the Great War. In 1919 he returned to a triumphant welcome as thousands lined the streets to cheer the first Australian to be ...
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John Curtin: A Biography
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Johns's Notable Australians 1906
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The forerunner - effectively the first edition - of what became the Australian Who's Who ... listing 1300 biopgraphies of Australian men and women.
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Kidman: The Forgotten King
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As a barley literate youth of thirteen, Sidney Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to ...
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Killer Caldwell: Australia's Greatest Fighter Pilot
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Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a natural and brilliant pilot, a superb shot, and born leader. He saw action against the Germans, Italians and Japanese, and remains Australia's greatest ...
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Kings in Grass Castles
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When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a great cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a ...
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Life and Times of Sir George Grey
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This book containing over 500 pages in 58 chapters, "The Life and Times of Sire George Grey" outlines the remarkable life and career of a man whose career took him to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and England ...
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Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The Story of Tom Kruse
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The Birdsville Track is one of the best know - and loneliest - tracks in Australia, and for twenty years Tom Kruse was the mailman, battling the searing ...
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Maisie: Her Life in her Letters h/c
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Man of Honour: John Macarthur
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John Macarthur: duellist, rebel, founding father ... Here is a new look at the origins of Australian history, one that takes us beyond the convict experience. Early Sydney was a ...
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Mawson: A Life
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In the heroic age of polar exploration, Sir Douglas Mawson stands in the first rank. His Antarctic expeditions of 1911-14 and 1929-31 resulted in Australia's claiming 40% of the sixth ...
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Merrindie: A Family's Farm
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An interesting family history, and that of the family farm, 'Merrindie', Giles Corner, South Australia, of the Hon. C.R. "Bert" Kelly. Contains many chapters, including contributions from his siblings. Includes maps or the area, archival and contemporary photographs throughout ...
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Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War
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Australian General Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German High commands of the 1914-1918 War failed to gain the ascendency after ...
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Moondyne Joe: The Man and the Myth
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Joseph Bolitho Johns 'Moondyne Joe', (or 'Moonie' to his mates) was a good badman who gallops across the pages of Western Australian history with all the spirit of a wild ...
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Mr Stuart's Track: The Forgotten Life of Australia's Greatest Explorer
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On 14 May 1858, an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine located on the very edge of the known world in the North Flinders Ranges. The Australian continent stretched for another 2000 kilometres to the north and 2500 to the west and no white man had the slightest
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My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life
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Written in 1902, 'My Australian Girlhood' gives interesting insights into life in the Australian bush at the time ...
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Myth Maker, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett: The Englishman who Sparked Australia's Gallipoli Legend
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It is one of the history's great ironies that an English war correspondent sparked Australia's Gallipoli legend.p An accident of fate placed Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett on the battleship 'London' ...
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Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782
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Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782 Nature's Argonaut is the first full biography of this important eighteenth century naturalist who now only circled the globe under sail but ranged as far north ...
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No Ordinary Determination; Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF
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Jeff Hatwell's epic tale is shaped by the lives of two extraordinary individuals thrown into the extraordinary and surreal work of the Gallipoli campaign as soldiers of the ...
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On the Back of Two Sheep: A History of George Solomon Webb and his Family
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This is the story of George Solomon Webb, convicted of stealing two sheep in 1816 and banished to the penal colony of New South Wales, and, who, on gaining his freedom settled west of the Murrumbidgee River in the area now known as Tidbinbilla, ACT ...
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Outback Trail h/c-S
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Pictures of the Past: Memories of Men I Have Met and Places I Have Seen
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Written by Francis H. Grundy in 1879, this book gives an overview of the author's life as an engineer in England as well as his time in New South Wales and Queensland ...
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Pioneering Days: Thrilling Incidents in the Early Sixties
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Written in 1913 by one of just a few remaining pioneers of Western and North-Western Queensland, George Sutherland has recorded "reminiscenses of the distant past, of men and matters-the dangers and hardships they underwent through droughts and floods, savage blacks, hunger and thirst, &c."
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Pioneers of the Kimberley: The Maggie Lilly Story
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'Pioneers of the Kimberley' is the story of five generations of outback women and men. It is the moving tale of Maggie Lilly and many other pioneers who ...
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Qantas By George!: The Remarkable Story of George Roberts
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George Roberts was born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1909. He saw his first aeroplane, which landed is a paddock near his house when he was eight, and took ...
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Queensland and Queenslanders 1936
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Starting with a short history of the colony of Queensland itself, this book then lists all 546 biographies in alphabetical order of prominent Queenslanders and Queensland businesses ...
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Queensland Founding Families: Biographies of Families Living in Queensland Prior of Separation from New South Wales
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This CD presents a collection of 750 contributed stories of families living in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in December 1859 ...
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Queensland Founding Families: Biographies of Families Living in Queensland Prior of Separation from New South Wales
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Our Price: AU$110.00 Inc GST
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This set of books is a collection of 750 contributed stories of families living in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in December 1859 ...
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Queensland Men of the Time 1885-1900
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From 1885 'Pugh's Almanac and Queensland Directory' included a "Men of the Time" section each year. This CD gathers 16 years of these (1885 to 1900) into one handy collection ...
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Recollections: Nathaniel Haile's Adventurous Life in Colonial South Australia
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Nathaniel Hailes was a wry chronicler of early colonial South Australia. He arrived in Adelaide from England in 1839 and throughout his colourful career witnessed many strange and wonderful happenings.
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Sails to Satellites: The Surveyors General of New South Wales 1786-2007
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This well-illustrated book by professional historian Terry Kass covers far more than the careers of the 27 Surveyors General over the last 200 years. Introductions to each section elucidate topics such as the equipment used by surveyors, land measurement, road building ...
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Sons in the Saddle
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Mary Durack's 'Kings in Grass Castles' is an Australia classic. Since it was published in 1959 it has gone on selling as new generations of readers discover the pastoralist saga ...
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Suicides and Settlers: Their Place in 19th Century Western Australian Social History
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This book is a social history of 19th Century Western Australia told through the 315 suicides recorded here from the towns of the Swan settlement, Fremantle, Perth and Guildford. They also reach from the Kimberley to Esperance and the distant deserts ...
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The 1863 Shipboard Diary of Edward Charlwood from England to Australia
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Edward Charlwood, whose 1863 shipboard diary this is, was the fourth son of Arthur and Phoebe Charlwood. Having emigrated in 1850 from England to Australia with his family as a ...
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The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Volume 1: 1901-1929
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This book covers the period 1901-1929, the period in which the Parliament operated from Melbourne, and present short articles on Australia's senators during the first twenty nine years ...
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The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Volume 2: 1929-1962
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The second volume of The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate contains individual articles on 103 male senators and one woman, the spirited Senator Agnes Robertson of Western Australia, and ...
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The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty Six Women Who Changed the Course of Australia
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The achievements of Australian women have long been overshadowed by the deeds of Australian men. Susanna de Vries details the life stories of 36 courageous Australian women who broke down the barriers of prejudice.
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The Courtneys: A Victorian Military Family
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The saga of the Courtney's commences in Ireland, and moves to Australia during the gold rush where the family soon became heavily involved in the local volunteer movement at Castlemaine. Military service became a tradition carried through four generations of the family. 'The Courtneys' is illustrated with photos from the ...
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The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe, Explorer
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"We none of us ate any salt meat, or anything that would tend to give us a thirst. We are now on what is called the 'Table-land', a flat piece ...
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The Family History of Richard Garrett and his Known Descendants 1804-1982
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Richard Garrett had four wives and a total of 17 children. Compiled and printed in 1982 this is a family tree of Richard Garrett and his known descendants from 1804 through to 1982 ...
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The Family Lineage of Richard Garrett 1804-2006 and the Family Lineage of William and Jane Argent (nee Burling) 1816-2006
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Compiled to be an update (and an enormous on at that) on the first Richard Garrett family history which was produced in 1982. The research on finding descendants of Richard continued, and this volume, published 24 years later, at over 1100 pages is a testament to the research ...
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The Fight Leaders: A Study of Australian Battlefield Leadership (Green, Ferguson and Hasset)
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This book is the story of leadership within the Australian Army and in particular during World War Two and in Korea.p During a twelve month period in the ...
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The Great Australian Loneliness: A Classic Journey Around and Across Australia
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In 1930 the author embarked on a remarkable journey, 50,000 miles across the Australian bush, a woman alone. By aeroplane, camel, ship, truck and packhorse, she travelled from Broome to ...
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The Home of the Blizzard: The Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914
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Outside the bowl of chaos was brimming with drift snow and, as I lay in the sleeping bag beside my dead companion, I wondered how I would manage to break ...
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The James of George Town: A Colonial Maritime, Mercantile and Family Correspondence 1813-1857
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Through correspondence with officialdom, business associates and amongst themselves, a forgotten pioneer Australian merchant-shipmaster and his family are brought back to life.p Captain Joseph James operated out of Sydney, New South ...
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The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia's Unknown Hero
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Most Australians would not recognise the name Hubert Wilkins ... his exploits happened before the power of television ensured the immortality of many lesser men. Born and raised in South ...
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The Last Man Standing: Herb Ashby and the Battle of El Alamein
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'Where was the rest of the company? Why is no one else firing? A quick look behind revealed the shocking truth. Herb was alone. No one was following ... there was no one able to follow. He was the last man standing.'
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The Law Provides
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After WWI, Ed. Morrow became a mounted policeman. His patrols through the North West, Kimberleys and Murchison chasing cattle spearers, killer & tracking lost men, gave him a view of ...
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The Outback Trail
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The author (Gus Luck), arrived in Western Australia at a propitious time in its history - the start of the Western Uatralian gold rush. Although his early experiences were unrelated ...
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The Rebel of Glenmalure: A History of Michael Dwyer
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This book will be of absorbing interest to those who follow Irish family and Catholic Church history. Dr Charles Dickson, the author of the book 'The life of ...
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The Ship Thieves: James Porter, Australian Convict, Pirate and Master Mariner
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As dusk came down on the evening of 13 January 1834, James Porter and nine other convicts, transported at His Majesty’s Pleasure to VDL, captured the newly launched barque the Frederick from their British masters ...
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Thomas Dunn: Convict and Chief Constable and his Descendants
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This book brings together the work of many of the descendants of Thomas Dunn, an Irishman, who as a 20 year old in 1799, was convicted and transported to Australia on the 'Hillsborough' for stealing. Some time between 1811 and 1814 Thomas became a free man, and set about creating a new life for himself in Sydney ...
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Thomas Edwards of Beverley: Immigrant, Policeman, Settler
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When Thomas Edwards came from England to Western Australia in 1857 with his young wife, Ann Maria Griffith and their first son, John, he was prepared to take ...
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Thomas Edwards of Beverley: Immigrant, Policeman, Settler
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When Thomas Edwards came from England to Western Australia in 1857 with his young wife, Ann Maria Griffith and their first son, John, he was prepared to take ...
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To Be Heirs Forever
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With her husband Will, six children, two servants, some livestock and tools, Eliza Shaw exchanged her comfortable English world of drawing-rooms and embroidery for the brushwood huts and back-breaking labour ...
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Traeger: The Pedal Radio Man
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This is a story about the man who gave a voice to the bush with the invention of the miracle pedal radio and enabled John Flynn to create a 'mantle of safety' for the Royal Flying Doctor Service ...
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Walker in the Wilderness: The Life of R.J. Anketell
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We built no heroes, but we left no bones' - this remark, said by a colleague, sums up the meticulous planning and execution of the expeditions led by Richard John ...
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Western Pioneers: The Battle Well Fought
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The reminiscences of a pioneer settler in Western Australia. Early descriptions of Perth, Geraldton, natives, South-West, people, businesses etc.
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William Carron's Narrative of Kennnedy's Cape York Expedition
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Edmund Kennedy's 1948 expedition to Cape York was the most tragic in the history of inland exploration of Australia. From the very start, the goals proved elusive. It took Kennedy ...
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William Cox: Blue Mountains Road Builder and Pastoralist
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William Cox (1764–1837) was a soldier, a road builder, and a pioneering pastoralist in the colony of New South Wales. He is best known today as the man who supervised the construction of the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814, and it was a remarkable achievement.
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William Ford and Coolgardie
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Biography of the discoverer of Coolgardie giving new information ...
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Willshire of Alice Springs
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Alice Springs' Mounted Constable Willshire headed two native police patrols during the 1800s. He was tried at Port Augusta for murder in 1891 and honourably acquitted. The Crown ...
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Winning with Intelligence: A Biography of Brigadier John David Rogers, CBE, MC, 1895-1978
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'Winning with Intelligence' is a military biography of Brigadier John Rogers, CBE, MC, who rose from infantry private in the First World War to brigadier and Director of Military Intelligence ...
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Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne
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Biographies and history of aboriginals of the Gascoyne with many photographs and drawings.
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