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Australians Volume 1: Origins to Eureka
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Our Price: AU$39.95 Inc GST
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In this first volume of a unique history of Australia, Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories ...
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Australians Volume 2: Eureka to the Diggers
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Our Price: AU$35.00 Inc GST
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In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, artists and hard-nosed radicals, politicians and soldiers all populate this richly drawn portrait...
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Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
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Our Price: AU$24.95 Inc GST
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After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology--and ...
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Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg
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Our Price: AU$32.95 Inc GST
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He was the gentleman bushranger ... she was the woman who rode with him. Full of action and drama, this is the richly detailed and unputdownable true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady.
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Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners Report 1850
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Our Price: AU$19.50 Inc GST
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Official report, the 10th general report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.
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Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare
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Who was a deserted wife in colonial Australia? How did she make ends meet during peak periods of wife desertion, such as the Victorian gold rushes? How did colonial Australians view the social problem of wife desertion? 'Deserted and Destitute' draws on the stories of indiviual women in gold-rush Victoria to provide new insights into ...
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Eureka Stockade: A Ferocious and Bloody Battle
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Our Price: AU$29.95 Inc GST
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On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854, British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial government attacked and stormed a crudely-built fortification erected by insurgent gold miners at the Eureka lead on the Ballarat Gold Diggings. The fighting was intense, the carnage appalling and the political consequences of the affair profound.
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Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution
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Our Price: AU$49.95 Inc GST
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In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind...
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Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia
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Our Price: AU$49.95 Inc GST
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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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Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony
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Our Price: AU$36.95 Inc GST
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'Freedom on the Fatal Shore' brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of Australian history. This new book combines both of these classic works into a single volume ...
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Gold Fever: A Rollicking History of the Australian Goldrush
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Our Price: AU$29.95 Inc GST
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The Australian character has been shaped by sedition. Britain sent to Australia's shores boatloads of transportees, in chains: the rebels, the democrats, chartists, thinkers and political activists who were soon at large, free to pursue their destiny under the azure skies of the Southern Cross.
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Golonial Guns: Artillery of the Australian Colonies
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This book covers the range of artillery found in the Australian colonies from the time of first white settlement right up until Federation one hundred and ten years later ...
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Old Colonials
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Published in1891, this book by Alexander J Boyd describes life in the Queensland bush as witnessed by him during his time as a school inspector and journalist.
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Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South Australia's Frontier Wars
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Our Price: AU$34.95 Inc GST
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When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement.
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The First Fleet Families
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Our Price: AU$12.95 Inc GST
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A comprehensive list of the first fleet families including 1200 of their children. Also available on microfiche.
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The Free Settlers of Australia 1788-1828
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Our Price: AU$17.50 Inc GST
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If your ancestor arrived in the colony between 1788 and 1828 (way before it was known as Australia) ... how do you find out more information on what ship ...
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The Free Settlers of Australia 1788-1828
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Our Price: AU$19.50 Inc GST
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If your ancestor arrived in the colony between 1788 and 1828 (way before it was known as Australia) ... how do you find out more information on what ship ...
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The Ned Kelly Encyclopaedia
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Our Price: AU$49.95 Inc GST
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The 'Ned Kelly Encyclopaedia' brings together more than 800 articles covering people, places and themes connected with Ned Kelly and the Kelly Outbreak of 1878-1880. It contains biographical ...
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Under the Southern Cross: The Rebels, Martyrs, Exiles and Activists who Shaped Australia
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Our Price: AU$29.95 Inc GST
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The Australian character has been shaped by sedition. Britain sent to Australia's shores boatloads of transportees, in chains: the rebels, the democrats, chartists, thinkers and political activists who were soon at large, free to pursue their destiny under the azure skies of the Southern Cross.
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Wild Colonial Boys: Tall Tales and True Australian Bushrangers
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With more than 200 photographs, engravings and items of ephemera, 'Wild Colonial Boys' offers a bold and exciting look at the bushranging period of Australia's colonial history, and includes a chapter on the bushranger myth in the media in the 21st century.
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