Too Long in the Bush by Len Beadell
22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Too Long In the Bush is the story of how, from 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road across Central Australia from east to west, 1500 kilometres from the Alice Springs road to Carnegie homestead 650 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. On the way he surveyed and built the Giles Meteorolo ...Show more
End of an Era by Len Beadell
22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Len Beadell's team had to contend with flat tyres and broken gear boxes as well as all the natural difficulties of the outback as they endeavoured to build three highways in one year! On one forward reconnaissance Beadell discovered a small group of Aborigines who had never before seen a white person, a ...Show more
Beating About the Bush by Len Beadell
22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Len Beadell's classic account of the building of the famous Gunbarrel Highway across Central Australia in which he recounts in his own colourful style the outstanding events of its construction.
Australia's Convict Past by Robert Coupe
19.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Charts the development of the convict era, from its beginnings in the British Parliament through to the establishment of settlements and the arrival of the last convict ship. Ages 9+
Australian Bushrangers 2ed by Bill Scott
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
This book looks at the most notorious of Australia's bushrangers - men who were fugitives from the Law, who robbed, stole stock and sometimes killed. From this lawless period of our past when most men went armed, the names of Frank Gardiner, bold Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt, Captain Moonlight and Ned ...Show more
OLD FORMAT 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait - and so changed the shape of Australian history. Before the founding of Melbourne, British settlement o ...Show more
To Be Heirs Forever by Mary Durack
27.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
"To Be Heirs Forever is a fascinating and lively account of early Australia from the author of the bestselling Kings in Grass Castles. In 1829 Eliza Shaw exchanged her world of English drawing-rooms and embroidery for the brushwood huts and backbreaking labour of a pioneer settlement in Western Australi ...Show more
Australians: From Eureka to the Diggers: Volume 2 by Thomas Keneally
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Australians | Reading Level: very good
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, arti ...Show more
King of the Outback: Tales from an off-road adventurer by Bill King
22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A modern-day explorer who took everyday Australians along for the ride. Bill King is the pioneer who put the Australian outback on the map for both local and international tourists. Through an enterprise founded on hope and grit - now operating as AAT Kings - he opened up a completely new branch of Aust ...Show more
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia by David Hill
34.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by th ...Show more
The Australian Book of Great Trials by Jeremy Stoljar
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The Australian Book of Great Trials tells the story of some of the most interesting and important trials in Australian history, including the first ever civil case, brought by two convicts a short time after the First Fleet landed; the remarkable tale of bushranger and folk hero Ned Kelly; the dingo and ...Show more
Love on Forrest Downs by Sheryl McCorry
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Sheryl McCorry is a woman in a million. In her runaway bestselling memoir 'Diamonds and Dust' and its sequel 'Stars over Shirlee', Sheryl shared her amazing life story from a childhood in the top end to becoming the first woman in the Kimberly to run a two-million acre cattle station. Sheryl's inspiring ...Show more