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A Colonial Tramp: Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea
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A Life on the Left: A Biography of Clyde Cameron
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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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A Toast to the Future: The Story of George Johnson and his Family (and Supplement)
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Abeona and the Hawson Family
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An Anzac's Story: Roy Kyle A.I.F.
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An Octogenarian's Reminiscences
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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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Australasiatic Reminiscences of Twenty-three Years' Wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias
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Australia Twice Traversed
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Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire: New South Wales and Queensland
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Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record: Series 2 1842-1899 Volume 2
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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 Representative Men
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Black Jack McEwen
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
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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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Clive Caldwell, Air Ace
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Clive Caldwell was officially attributed with 271/2 victories and became Australia's highest scoring fighter pilot in World War II. In addition, he became an ave in both the Middle East and Pacific theatres - the only Australian pilot to attain this status. This biography is a celebration of Caldwell's military achievements.
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Command in Vietnam: Reflections of a Commanding Officer
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Colonel Peter Scott commanded the 3RAR known as 'Old Faithful' at Woodside in Australia from 1969-1971, and in Vietnam until October 1971. This book 'Command in Vietnam' is an outstanding personal record of a Commanding Officer in Vietnam ...
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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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Darwin's Submarine I-124
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The first attacks on Australia by the Japanese were made by four submarines of the Sixth Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy. These 80-man boats laid mines, and then waited in their killing zones for targets to torpedo. On 20 January 1942, it all went horribly wrong. Sunk with all hands, the submarine I-124 ...
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Devil's Marble: John Flynn's Grave in Central Australia
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Dictionary of Australasian Biography
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Dictionary of Australian Biography
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Ernest Giles: Explorer and Traveller 1835-1897
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Explorations in Australia: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 1858-1862
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Exploring Expedition Through the Interior of Australia 1844
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In 1844 Ludwig Leichardt led his first expedition to Port Essington in the Northern Territory. Complete with details of the route traveled, and what they saw, this publication recounts the journey.
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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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Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia
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Two hundred years ago, in the romantic age of exploration, Matthew Flinders became the first to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline. Rob Mundle's 'Flinders' brings to life the fascinating story of this exceptional maritime explorer - from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his imprisonment
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Flynn of the Inland
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For Generations Yet Unborn: The Jamieson Family 1747-1978
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Forgotten Valour: The Story of Arthur Sullivan VC, Shy War Hero
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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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Friedrich Wurfel Family History 1880-1982
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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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Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, painter, diarist, pioneer
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Great Australian Women Volume II: From Pioneering Days to the Present
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He Came from Australia: Lieutenant Percival Ralph, MM, MID (53rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force)
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Hell West and Crooked: A Living Legend, A Real-Life Crocodile Dundee
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History of the Haby Family
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In the 1850s two Haby brothers (Johann Christian and Johann Carl) and their families came to South Australia from Prussia looking for a better life. Here is the story of both them, and their descencants.
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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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Johns's Notable Australians 1906
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Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell arrived in Sydney, having accepted the position of Assistant Surveyor-General in New South Wales. Between 1831 and 1864 he led four expeditions. The journal of his last is described here.
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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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Landsborough's Expedition in Search of Burke and Wills
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This product provides a great tool for researching the early land expeditions of Australia ...
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Luck is No Accident: Flying in War and Peace 1946-1986
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The author learned to fly as a teenager, and here he describes his experiences in both the RAAF and civil aviation. He flew with No. 77 (Fighter) Squadron flying Meteor ...
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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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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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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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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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Opals and Agates: Memories of Fifty Years of Australia and Polynesia
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Published in 1892 at Brisbane, Nehemiah Bartley’s 'Opals and Agates' records memories of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia ...
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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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Over the Top: A Digger's Story of the Western Front
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Harry Hartnett, joined the Australian Imperial Force on 13 September 1915 at the age of 23. He saw action on the Western Front at Fromelles and on the Somme, receiving his first ‘Blighty’ (a wound). Harry recalls the battles, the long marshes, and the many musing events that provided escape from the horrors of the battlefront ...
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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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Seven Years in the Australian Bush
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Written in Sydney in 1877 by James B Stevenson, this book was published in 1880 and tells how he spent his first seven years in the bush in the Australian colonies. He arrived during the 1860s in Moreton Bay ...
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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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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 Cannell Connection: The Story of Thomas Rackham Cannell and his Family
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The story of Thomas Rackham Cannell, his wife Mary and their children starting in about 1830.
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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 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 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 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 Warrens: "Springfield" and Beyond
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A family history of the Warrens who settled in South Australia, complied by Ian Warren Morison ...
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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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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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