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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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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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Mary Proctor: Convict, Pioneer and Settler
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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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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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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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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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Only One River to Cross: An Australian Soldier Behind Enemy Lines in Korea
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'Only One River to Cross' is a dramatic suspenseful and splendidly written story of Australians at war. Dr Harris tells the story of his early years on the Buronga Ridge ...
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Operation Orders: The Experiences of an Infantry Officer (Malaya, PNG, Vietnam 1963-1970)
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This book gives a valuable insight into Australia's military involvement in South East Asia and Papua New Guinea as experienced by an Infantry Officer, Pat Beale. He was ...
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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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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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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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Richard Siddins of Port Jackson
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'Richard Siddins of Port Jackson' is a well researched account of the part played by one of the early (and best known) merchant sea captains sailing out of ...
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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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Street Kid: A Tale of Trouble and Survival Between the Wars
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The author grew up in the deprived suburbs of Sydney, where the streets were the playground for many and also an environment where kids found trouble. Young George ...
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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 Brothers Taylor: A Tasmanian Maritime History
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Last century shipping was the life-blood of the Tasmanian colony. It was the means by which local production was distributed around the island as well as to mainland and wider ...
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The Cape Horn Breed: My Experience As An Apprentice in Sail in the Full-Rigged Ship 'British Isles'
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Captain William Herbert Sidney Jones was born in England in 1889. He went to sea as an apprentice in 1906 at the age of 15, on the full-rigged ship ...
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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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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 Luck of the Draw: Horses, Spitfires and Kittyhawks
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Ted Sly, the author, is a descendant of long line of colonial families, the best known being that of explorer and builder, Sir Thomas Mitchell. Although a city boy, Ted ...
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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 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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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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When Good Men Do Nothing
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Griffith Spragg, was born in West Maitland on 24 January 1922. He began his working life as a Junior Clerk at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 1939, and enlisted ...
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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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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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