Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World, made in H.M. Bark Endeavour, 1768–71 by James Cook
$76.00 AUD
Category: History
Famed for his exploration of the Pacific and Australasia, James Cook (1728-79) was also an excellent surveyor and a meticulous keeper of records. The journal entries presented here cover Cook's first voyage around the world aboard the Endeavour, during which he mapped New Zealand and claimed the eastern ...Show more
The Lost Boys by BYRNES
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
The Year My Family Unravelled by Cynthia Dearborn
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A superbly written and surprising memoir about hope, redemption, self-worth, and the tangled and often contradictory impulses of love. Cynthia Dearborn is struggling to convince her father, who has vascular dementia, to move into an aged care facility. He won't budge. Further complicating matters is th ...Show more
Lessons From Our Ancestors: Equality, Inclusivity and Sustainability in the Ancient World by Raksha Dave
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
'A healthy corrective to the notion that "History is what White Men did", and worthy of a place on every child's bookshelf.' - Sir Tony Robinson Rediscover the ancient world as you've never seen it before and meet... The women and children who painted the world's oldest-known cave art The black pharaohs ...Show more
A Modest Genius - The Story of Darwin's Life and How His Ideas Changed Everything by Hanne Strager; Sarah Darwin (Foreword by)
$33.75 AUD
Category: History
Part biography, part popular science, A Modest Genius provides a lively, engaging account of Darwin's life and the events that inspired his groundbreaking theory. Science writer and biologist Hanne Strager brings Darwin to life while offering the essential elements of evolution and how they affect us to ...Show more
China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
'A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . . . Combined with this linguistic skill, Dikutter has a writer's gift' EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake ...Show more
The Road Back by Erich-Maria Remarque; Erich Maria Remarque; Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
The sequel to the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to Europe in the years following World War I. After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what ...Show more
The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Three Year Escape from the Japanese Army by F.Spencer Chapman
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
After the fall of Malaysia to the Japanese, the unflappable F. Spencer Chapman survived for years in the jungle as a guerilla fighter. The Jungle is Neutral is his amazing tale of survival and valor against all odds. As he traveled by bicycle, motorcycle, dugout, on foot, or on his belly through the jun ...Show more
Biblical: Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures by Rob Halford
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
The Metal God himself, Rob Halford - lead vocalist of Judas Priest and author of the critically acclaimed and reader-beloved autobiography, Confess - delivers a bible of hard rock and heavy metal, all in his enlightening, hilarious, and one-of-a-kind voice. Rob Halford has long been known for his legen ...Show more
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
FLINDERS brings to life the fascinating story of this exceptional maritime explorer - from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel imprisonment by the French on Mauritius for six long and harrowing years; the heartbreaking separation from his ...Show more
The General of Tiananmen Square - An Ava Lee Novel: the Triad Years by Ian Hamilton
$34.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: An\Ava Lee Novel Ser.
Ava Lee squares off against the Chinese government over a controversial film depicting the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre in the latest thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton. Ava Lee is in the French Riviera with Pang Fai and Lau Lau for the long-awaited premiere of Tiananmen at the Cannes ...Show more
Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion, reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers.