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  • Barossa Journeys
    Noris Ioannou
    Barossa Journeys: Into a valley of tradition creates a sensory experience where the flavours of wine and food intermingle with the celebrations of festivals and music. Favourite places and enchanting, out-of-the-way sites are revealed. Explore places as evocative as the long-lost village of Hoffnungsthal, and the strange cave home of the eccentric explorer Menge. Wander through...
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    44,93 €

  • The Worst Country in the World
    Patsy Trench
    “Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, 'The Worst Country in the World' is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the ’luckiest’ countries in the world.” Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine.In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow an...
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    14,92 €

  • Dalton's Gold
    Peter D Matthews
    Renowned historian, philosopher and author, Dr Peter Matthews, has illuminated the events of the Eureka Stockade like never before. This book is the culmination of three years research after his Grandfather, Francis Dalton, shared this amazing story just before he passed away in 1995. John Thomas Dalton was swindled out of the find of the century by the very forces sent to pro...
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    23,70 €

  • One Hundred Years of Women Police in Australia
    Tim Prenzler
    In 2015 Australia celebrates the centenary of the country’s first appointment of women police. This fascinating book presents for the first time the story of 100 years of Australian women police. A vital contribution to Australian history as well as modern policing and policy, the book concludes with a simple recipe for eliminating discrimination and optimising the contributio...
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    45,38 €

  • From Paisley to Auckland
    Kimberly Stewart
    From the weaving town of Paisley in Scotland to the shores of Auckland, this family history traces the lives, struggles, and journeys of generations of the Munro family. Combining historical research alongside photographs, records and personal accounts, this book preserves the people behind the names. ...
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    43,07 €

  • Australia
    Ralf Okney
    What does it mean to be Australian? The answer is more complicated, more painful, and more remarkable than the sunburnt expanses and easy coastal postcards of popular imagination suggest. The Pride Series explores the identity of nations one country at a time, celebrating what makes each one unique while preserving the heritage that defines it. This volume turns to Australia: a...
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    15,19 €

  • Return to Uluru
    Mark McKenna
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    22,98 €

  • Sugar Soap
    Raeleen Molloy
    Sugar Soap is a witty exploration of the domino effect from childhood trauma and how it impacts future relationships.When Raeleen loses her father at an early age, her adolescent journey through 80s Australia and into motherhood is deeply influenced. Sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll collide with her deep-seated exploration of belonging.Sugar Soap is full of hope and humour, a memoir...
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    22,37 €

  • Die Geschichte Australiens
    History Nerds
    Australien wird oft als eine junge Nation angesehen, die durch die britische Kolonialisierung und die moderne Besiedlung geprägt wurde - doch seine Geschichte reicht weit über die Ankunft der Europäer hinaus. Als Heimat einer der ältesten fortbestehenden Kulturen der Welt entwickelten die indigenen Völker Australiens über Jahrtausende hinweg hoch entwickelte Gesellschaften, Ges...
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    13,34 €

  • LA SERPIENTE Y LA CORONA
    Cristina Lobo / Manuel Rodsua
    LA SERPIENTE Y LA CORONA Anatomía del Poder, la Violencia Ritual y la Resistencia Mística en Fiyi (Siglos XIX-XX)Adentrarse en la historia del archipiélago de Fiyi durante los siglos XIX y XX exige despojarse de la mirada eurocéntrica que ha reducido los espacios insulares del Pacífico a meros escenarios de expansión imperial o a postales de un exotismo estático. En esta invest...
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    28,76 €

  • Golden Raub
    Victor Bibby
    Unmarked and forgotten graves, an old pickle jar, a stamp shoe worn to a slipper, abandoned mines in Victoria and remotest Queensland, floods and rebellion. All are stops and clues along the way as Victor Bibby treads in the footsteps of a gold mining pioneer to discover long-lost relatives and the truths about his own family, bringing alive an historical account of life on the...
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    37,12 €

  • From Revolutionary Hopes to Shattered Dreams
    Duncan Hart
    The socialist left in Australia achieved an influence at the end of World War I that they never enjoyed before, or since. In a country with a small population, thousands participated in this current which spanned from revolutionary syndicalist groups seeking to emulate the recently disbanded Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), to the Labor socialists of the Victorian Sociali...
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    19,53 €

  • Cook vers le pôle Sud, Tome I
    Isabelle Perol / James Cook
    Juillet 1772, Plymouth. Deux charbonniers reconvertis appareillent pour prouver qu’un continent n’existe pas. L’Europe savante le dessine depuis deux siècles au bas de ses cartes : vaste, peuplé, fertile. James Cook, fils de journalier devenu le meilleur navigateur du royaume, reçoit l’ordre de descendre aussi près du pôle que la glace le permettra, jusqu’à ce que la question s...
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    15,60 €

  • Le Journal de l’Endeavour, Tome III
    Isabelle Perol / James Cook
    11 juin 1770. Au large de la Nouvelle-Hollande, en pleine nuit, l’Endeavour talonne un récif de corail et s’immobilise, éventré, à des lieues de toute terre. Pour survivre, l’équipage jette ses canons à la mer et double la coque d’une voile pour colmater la brèche.Ce troisième et dernier tome du journal authentique de Cook conduit le lecteur de cette nuit d’angoisse jusqu’au re...
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    14,23 €

  • Le Journal de l’Endeavour, Tome II
    Isabelle Perol / James Cook
    Novembre 1769. Au large de la baie de Mercury, l’Endeavour reprend sa route vers le nord et achève le tour de la Nouvelle-Zélande commencé dans le premier tome. Cook baptise un fleuve la Tamise, mouille dans la baie des Îles, double le cap Nord sous un ouragan, puis vient caréner son navire dans le détroit de la Reine-Charlotte, où il prend possession du pays au nom du roi.Rest...
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    13,45 €

  • South to Hobart
    Gigi Romano
    Every Boxing Day, a fleet leaves the brilliance of Sydney Harbour and turns south towards one of the most demanding passages in international sailing. South to Hobart tells the complete story of Australia’s great ocean-racing tradition, from the informal challenge that produced the first race in 1945 to the carbon-fibre supermaxis, two-handed crews and advanced safety systems o...
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    21,11 €

  • Sailors, Settlers & Sinners
    Moira Taylor
    A dramatic escape from Napoleonic France, a near-fatal betrayal in colonial New Zealand, and the rise of a Prime Minister - Sailors, Settlers & Sinners is a richly researched true history of one family’s extraordinary journey across the 19th-century British Empire.Beginning in the port of Hull during the upheaval of the French Revolution, this compelling historical biography fo...
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    16,80 €

  • Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia
    Philip Parker King
    is a historical account written dur ing the early 19th century. The work chronicles King’s extensive survey of the largely uncharted and unexplored coasts of Australia between the years 1818 and1822, detailing the geography, flora, fauna, and interactions with in digenous peoples. Thenarrative provides insights into the early colonial en deavors and maritime exploration of Aus...
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    34,35 €

  • House on the Frontier
    Peter King
    In the harsh and beautiful frontier of 1850s Australia, a routine police patrol becomes the beginning of a chilling mystery. When Sergeant Norm Green dispatches four mounted constables to investigate the disappearance of a settler named Nigel Martin, they uncover far more than an abandoned homestead. Hidden across the lonely plains are murdered families, stolen government gold,...
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    19,83 €

  • Zionist cancel culture and intellectual freedom at the University of Sydney
    Tim Anderson
    This collection of essays details a personal and legal history of the fight for intellectual freedom within the Australian academy, against the logic of the corporate university and pressures from the Zionist lobby at the University of Sydney. It charts the construction of a re-regulated form of 'intellectual freedom' at Australia’s oldest university, fashioned through argument...
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    17,73 €

  • The Kind Hosts of Willie Wimmera
    Mary Chambers
    Willie Wimmera, an Aboriginal boy, was ten years old when clergyman Lloyd Chase brought him from Melbourne to Reading in 1851. Tragically, he became ill and died only a few months after his arrival. He is buried in Reading Old Cemetery, his grave marked ’An Australian boy’.A member of the Wotjobaluk People from the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, Willie couldn’t have bee...
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    13,71 €

  • Parramatta Road - Dark tales, vanished icons, history and legend
    Heather L Jones
    Stretching from Sydney’s city centre to Parramatta, some 23 kilometres away through Sydney’s Inner West, Parramatta Road is far more than the busy and much-maligned thoroughfare it is today. It is one of Australia’s most ancient roads - a route first carved out of the landscape by the First Nations people of the area, later transformed into a colonial track and, later, a hub of...
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    12,71 €

  • ARQUITECTURA DEL SAHUL
    Cristina Lobo / Manuel Rodsua
    ¿Fue la ocupación humana de Australia un proceso de adaptación azarosa o un proyecto de ingeniería deliberada?Arquitectura del Sahul desafía las narrativas tradicionales que han relegado a los primeros habitantes del continente australiano al rótulo de primitivismo. En esta obra fundamental, Cristina Lobo y Manuel Rodsua ejecutan una intervención epistemológica que rompe los ma...
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    30,83 €

  • Under the Barkly Sky
    Stuart Phillpot
    In Under the Barkly Sky, Stuart Phillpot provides a comprehensive history of the Barkly Region’s Traditional Owners. This well-researched book chronicles the resilience of the Wumparrani peoples over 150 years in the face of colonisation, cultural erosion, and changing government policies. Phillpot combines historical records, Indigenous voices, and analysis to tell a story of ...
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    70,41 €

  • Along the tracks of Cobb and Co. - Queensland Bound
    Hazel T Johnson
    Bound for the north. Mountain ranges and outback plains. Whispering gums and bountiful rivers-the vast, untamed bush of Queensland stretched ahead.From the promise of a new beginning to the harsh realities of life in the northern wilderness, Queensland called to those willing to endure, to build, and to belong. Already home to Indigenous Peoples, pioneers, convicts, and later s...
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    33,30 €

  • The Labyrinth in First Nations Cultures
    Corinne Mesana
    What if the labyrinth was never just a Greek myth?Long before the Minotaur prowled the Cretan labyrinth of Greek legend, First Nations Australians were living and breathing a labyrinth of their own. It was in the vast red desert, the winding waterhole, the sacred songlines stretching across thousands of kilometres of ancient country.In this richly layered work, Corinne Mesana t...
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    24,64 €

  • My Deaf Defying Life
    Catherine Plush
    Catherine Plush shares the details of her life and struggles with disabilities around growing up with cerebral palsy in the 60s and getting cochlear implants and navigating study, career and family right through to the 2026 post-pandemic world.Complications during Catherine’s birth in 1956 left her with cerebral palsy, severe deafness, and dysarthria. But no disability could ke...
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    16,71 €

  • The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard
    John Blaxland
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    40,88 €

  • THE SNAKE CIRCLE
    Christine Maher
    In the early days of colonial Australia, where survival demanded resilience and ambition, Sir Henry Browne Hayes stood out as a man of contradictions. A knighted sheriff from Cork, Ireland, turned notorious convict, Hayes led a scandalous life that defied expectations. Arrested for the audacious crime of abducting a wealthy Quaker heiress on a dare, Hayes was transported to New...
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    32,09 €

  • The Liberal Story
    Baden Teague
    ’This book is a significant study of the Liberal Party. It has compelling interpretations of political developments over the last 120 years and more. It is an encyclopaedic reference for decades to come. Written with vigour and enthusiasm, this volume never flags. It is a pleasure to read.’- Professor Don Markwell ...
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    51,40 €


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