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In Australian Tropics
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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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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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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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Paul Cullen, Citizen and Soldier: The Life and Times of Major General Paul Cullen
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Major General Paul Cullen may be 95 years old, but he still displays the tenacity, frankness and dignity he showed as an eminent military commander in the Second ...
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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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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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Rainbow: The Story of Rania MacPhillamy
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Rania MacPhillamy left Australia in 1915 to work in a Cario hospital treating the wounded from Gallipoli. After the death of her soldier sweetheart she stayed on in Egypt and together with another woman, she set up a series of canteens for the men ...
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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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Slee Family History c1490-1976
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Narrative history, biographies, family trees and photographs are all included in this comprehensive family history of the Australian Slee's.
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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 Career of William Thompson, Convict
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William Thompson was a transported for life for burglary in 1841, when he was only 21. He arrived just as the new probation system was introduced, and was freed 12 years later. In his time in the convict system he worked in numerous road gangs, this is his story ...
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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 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 Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks: The Australian Journey
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Born in London in 1743, Joseph Banks was 25 years old when he joined the 'Endeavour' on its voyage to record the transit of Venus. Banks contributed £10,000, ...
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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 Prince of Australia and Other Rebels, Rogues and Ratbags
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This will intrigue you ... who was the Prince of Australia? Here is a collection of vivid, entertaining tales about some bizarre Australian characters. They were people - daring, ...
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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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The Ship Thieves: The True Tale of James Porter, Colonial Pirate
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in 1823 James Porter, Cockney fingersmith, sailor, and adventurer was thrown onto a prison-ship, he was transported to Van Diemen's Land. But captivity did not prove to be to his taste, and he soon set about plotting escapes attempts ...
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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 Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian
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Dampier was certainly a pirate, though he preferred the term 'profiteer'. Yet
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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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