Botany Bay and the First Fleet: The Real Story by Alan Frost
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Category: REM Australian Studies
Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British aut ...Show more
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau : How Australia's Signals-Intelligence Network Helped Win the Pacific War by David Dufty
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Category: REM Australian Studies | Reading Level: General Adult
This is a rich historical account of a secret and little-understood side of the war, interwoven with lively personalities and personal stories. It is the story of Australia's version of Bletchley Park, of talented and dedicated individuals who significantly influenced the course of the Pacific War.
Gallipoli (Centenary Edition) by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
"The book of the year" (Alan Ramsey, Sydney Morning Herald)Les Carlyon's Gallipoli is one of the most successful, and critically acclaimed, works of Australian non-fiction published in the last decade. In hardback we sold almost 60,000 copies in the first four months of publication. The paperback has be ...Show more
The Beach : An Australian Passion by Robert Drewe
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Category: REM Australian Studies
From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-stre ...Show more
Eighties: the Decade That Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno
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Category: REM Australian Studies
Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, th ...Show more
High seas and High Teas by Roslyn Russell
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Category: REM Australian Studies
‘The rats I frighten away by throwing books or anything hard at the spot at which they commence their gnawing,’ wrote emigrant Janet Ronald in her journal kept aboard the Invincible in 1857.Packed in cheek by jowl with fellow passengers and crew, life on board the ships transporting convicts and free se ...Show more
A Kind of Victory: Captain Charles Cox and His Australian Cavalrymen by Craig Wilcox
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Category: REM Australian Studies
In 1899, on the eve of the Boer War, Captain Charles Cox from Parramatta took 100 Australian cavalrymen to train with the British army in England. These military apprentices became British soldiers as well as Australian ones. But everything went wrong. Publicity got in the way of cavalry drill which, in ...Show more
CASTLEMAINE FROM CAMP TO CITY by Geoff Hocking
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Category: REM Australian Studies
This superbly illustrated, expanded, second edition of CASTLEMAINE: FROM CAMP TO CITY has over 200 original photographs, historical illustrations, paintings, engravings, woodblock prints and items of ephemera. Together they tell the story of the rush to Castlemaine, and of the early Colony of Victoria's ...Show more
Emporium : Selling the Dream in Colonial Australia by Edwin Barnard
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Category: REM Australian Studies
A new wonder cure...the latest fashion...a revolutionary gadget...few can resist the siren song of advertising, and our colonial ancestors were as susceptible as we are. Perhaps that electric hair brush really could help to cure baldness, and wouldn't it be wonderful if those strange new cannabis cigare ...Show more
Australian History in Seven Questions by John Hirst
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Category: REM Australian Studies
From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past and present. Hirst asks and answers questions that get to the heart of Australia's history: Why did Aborigines not take up farming? How did a pen ...Show more
Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
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Category: REM Australian Studies | Reading Level: very good
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. As an Aboriginal Australian, Stan Grant has had to contend with his country's racist legacy all his life. Born into adversity, he found an escape route through education and the writing of James Baldwin, going on to beco ...Show more
Moments in Time : A Book of Australian Postcards by Jim Davidson
$15.95 AUD
Category: REM Australian Studies
At the height of the postcard boom, when there were several deliveries of the post every day, you could send a postcard in the morning to arrange a meeting for that afternoon. Postcards were indeed the emails of their day. Old postcards have an immediacy about them that is striking: they provide a rich ...Show more