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A Glance at Australia in 1880: Embracing a Squatters and Farmers Directory of the Whole of Australia
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A Vacation Tour at the Antipodes Through Victoria,Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand in 1861-1862
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Written in 1863 by Benjamin Arthur Heywood, this book describes the author’s tour in 1861-1862 through Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand.
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A Wealth of Women: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary Australian Women from 1788 to Today
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Here is the story of the lives of ordinary Australian women from 1788 to the present. Drawing on the information provided by hundreds of families, as well as ...
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All Our Labours: Working 20th Cent
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An Eye for Photography: The Camera in Australia
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Australia's first photographers were opportunistic entrepreneurs, who wielded cumbersome equipment and charged a guinea for each sitter, even in group portraits! Today they flaunt the latest electronic marvels and manipulate ...
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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.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1883
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1886
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1892
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1896
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1900
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Australasian Medical Directory Compendium
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Australia and New Zealand
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An 1873 of tour of Australia by Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist whose books illuminate virtually every aspect.
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Australia From a Woman's Point of View
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Australia's Gold Rushes
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Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860s-1930s
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Between 1870-1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. This book is a pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport. Contains a biographical listing of more than 1200 of these men ...
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Australian Blue Book 1942
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Australian Cyclopedias Compendium Set
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Australian Etiquette 1885: Rules and Usages of the Best Society in the Australasian Colonies
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Australian Handbook 1875
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Australian Handbook 1876
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Australian Handbook 1889
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Australian Handbook 1900
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Australian Handbook 1904
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1931
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1954
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Australian Pastoral Directory Compendium 2
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Australian Pioneers and Reminicences
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Nehemiah Bartley's reminiscences of Australians and life from 1849 to 1894.
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Australian Railwayman: From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner
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Australians Volume 1: Origins to Eureka
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Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Cattlemen
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Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia
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This extraordinary book describes the conceptualisation of the human body, soul, and health at the Kukatja people, who now live at Balgo, in the far north of Western Australia. It ...
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Book of Information Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicles c1927
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The classic book on the camel in Australia.
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Castlemaine From Camp to City: A Pictorial History of Forest Creek and the Mount Alexander Goldfields 1835-1900
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This superbly illustrated, expanded second edition of 'Castlemaine From Camp to City' has more than 200 original photographs, historical illustrations, paintings, engravings and items of ephemera. The story of the rush to Castlemaine, and of the early years in Victoria ...
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Cobb and Co. in the Golden West
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The Western Australian coaching companies covered immense distances in scarcely explored country. Among them was the Western Australia Cobb and Co. run by Nicholas and Kidman. This collection of reminiscences, reports, timetables, adverts, etc. is heavily illustrated, and is ...
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Cook's Interstate Business Directory 1937
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Core of My Heart, My Country: Women's Sense of Place and the Land in Australia and Canada
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Course of Instruction for Primary Schools 1941
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Descriptive Australia and Federal Guide 1890
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Useful, practical and interesting facts and other information to the general Australian public as well as to tourists and visitors to Australia.
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Droving Days
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A history of droving and stories of the famous drovers.
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Emigration: Where to Go, and Who Should Go: New Zealand and Australia
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Etiquette in Australia 1902
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Eureka
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Eureka Stockade: A Pictorial History
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Father's Right-Hand Man: Women on Australia's Family Farms in the Age of Federation 1880s-1920s
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Kate Hunter explores the lives of many women on the farm, and the communities in which they lived during decades of great social and economic change.
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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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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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Handbook to Australasia 1859
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