Australia & New Zealand
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The Fatal Shore
$24.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today.
“One of the greatest non-fiction b- Author: Hughes, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: February 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394753666
- Language: English
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Aboriginal Art
$26.95 Add to cartThis concise survey showcases the incredible, diverse work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists. Building on traditions that stretch back at least 50,000 years, these artists have long worked in a
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Caruana, Wally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0500204659
- Language: English
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Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol … [more below]
- Author: Dash, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0609807161
- Language: English
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The Journals of Captain Cook
$33.99 Add to cartDepicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of Jam
- Series: Mint Editions (in Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
- Author: Cook, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1513206818
- Language: English
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The Road from Coorain: A Woman’s Exquisitely Clear-Sighted Memoir of Growing Up Australian
$17.00 Add to cartIn a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood–a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas,… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Conway, Jill Ker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724362
- Language: English
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Journey in Time: The 50,000 Year Story of the Australian Aboriginal Rock Art of Arnhem Land
$40.00 Read moreThis is the 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land. Aboriginal rock art, as practised in Arnhem Land, is the world’s longest continuing art tradition. It is a tradition… [more below]
- Author: Chaloupka, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1760793639
- Language: English
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Pacific Profiles Volume 10: Allied Fighters: P-47d Thunderbolt Series Southwest Pacific 1943-1945
$42.95 Read more“…an exceptional book for enthusiasts and modelers of the P-47 Thunderbolt, Fifth Air Force fighters, and the Southwest Pacific air war.” — Aeroscale
The ongoing Pacific Profiles series presents the… [more below]
- Series: Pacific Profiles
- Author: Claringbould, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0645700401
- Language: English
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Question 7
$28.00 Add to cartAn exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author’s life and family, and the role of fiction in our times
By w- Author: Flanagan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593802330
- Language: English
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The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral
$16.00 Add to cartAt the farthest extent of Australia’s Blue Mountains, on the threshold of the country’s arid interior, the Blue Plateau reveals the vagaries of a hanging climate: the droughts last longer, the seasons
- Author: Tredinnick, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1571313206
- Language: English
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A Concise History of New Zealand
$32.00 Read moreNew Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Mein Smith, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1107402174
- Language: English
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The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier
$18.00 Add to cartA lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts… [more below]
- Author: Flannery, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137199
- Language: English
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Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
$34.95 Add to cartThe stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl” of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the … [more below]
- Author: Buhle, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1844675254
- Language: English
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The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand & Its Treaty
$26.99 Add to cartNew Zealand to many is ‘Middle Earth’, home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it was also the last major land mass on the planet to be settled by humans. The country was catapulted kicking and scr… [more below]
- Author: Wishart, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: May 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0987657364
- Language: English
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
$16.00 Add to cartHumans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environme… [more below]
- Author: Flannery, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139434
- Language: English
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The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
$20.00 Add to cartStretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine spe
- Author: McCalman, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535345
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Tahiti
$13.50 Add to cartRomance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave a rousing welcome to the 18th-century European adventurers who discovered the island. It was not just
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0992258855
- Language: English
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Invasion Rabaul: The Epic Story of Lark Force, the Forgotten Garrison, January-July 1942
$24.99 Add to cartThe riveting first book in Bruce Gamble’s critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover entitled Darkest Hour, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II. January 23,
- Series: Rabaul Trilogy #01
- Author: Gamble, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0760345910
- Language: English
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History of New Zealand: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Land of the Long White Cloud, from the Polynesians Through the Māori Mu
$24.99 Add to cartDid you know New Zealand was the first country to offer universal suffrage?
Many people today only started dreaming of visiting New Zealand after discovering it was the beautiful filming place of the L
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 17 2023
- ISBN10: 163716873X
- Language: English
