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Comprehensive and fully updated, Frommer’s Hawaii covers all the major Hawaiian Islands, and takes you from world-famous......more

Now fully revised for 2023, this is the essential and comprehensive guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western ......more

This new, illustrated biography of Weary includes more than 150 images as well as never-before-published material about ......more

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A wealth of poetic and imaginative tales from Aboriginal cultural heritage.Aboriginal Stories presents a collection of m......more

At the height of his national success, Ion Idriess wrote nine articles for the new national magazine Walkabout which pre......more

First published in 1935, and now in its 24th edition. This new Idriess book tells of stirring episodes in the pursuit, o......more

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​This classic and colourfully illustrated work - reprinted to meet continuing wide demand - tells the story of much of t......more

The Story of Chalmers of New Guinea, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and s......more

The killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian......more

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military ......more

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From Wall Street to the supreme court, how the world’s largest banks control the money markets and crush competition In ......more

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Ken Inglis is one of Australia’s most admired and warmly regarded historians. Written with style and wit, Observing Aust......more

Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of the colony of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, left an enduring legacy to Australians. ......more

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vie......more

This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understandi......more

Problems of the Pacific, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this ......more

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Widely regarded as a major Australian artist, Rosalie Gascoigne first exhibited in 1974 at the age of fifty-seven. She r......more

Four brothers and a sister emigrated from Ireland to the Colony of Victoria between 1853 and 1858. They came as part of ......more

The 25th anniversary edition of the much-beloved true adventure tale of Nathaniel Courthope; "A magnificent piece of pop......more

Ion Idriess shares with his readers yet another rich deposit of fascinating information he has uncovered on his wanderin......more

In 1800, while the coast of Australia had finally been charted, the vast interior of the continent, and routes across it......more

They built them tough in the old days. Our ancestors’ exploits in a new country demonstrate that life was not meant to b......more

A charming and important collection of the 40-year personal correspondence between two distinguished Australian historia......more

Who and I? I am Thomas Toke, alias Thomas Tookey, alias Thomas Toak. I was born in England, transported to Sydney, Austr......more

Most Australians think they know the full Kelly story. James Wallace: The Kelly Gang Sympathiser is about a man who was ......more

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER - LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS - An exquisite, genre-d......more

This book is about adventure motorcycle riding, middle age, and chicken racing, but most of all it’s about adventure and......more

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses ......more

The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony, a classical book, has been considered important thr......more

Under the Southern Cross; Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands, a classical ......more

History of the AWU is a first-hand account of the making of a union and the makings of a nation. It depicts the industri......more

Railways have played an immense part in the history of New South Wales. The parallel lines extended as the population gr......more

Stevenson’s Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human his......more

From its earliest years, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies. As they contributed to the foun......more

Histoire des isles Marianes (History of the Mariana Islands), was published in Paris in 1700 with authorship attributed ......more

Of the many episodes that make up the oftentimes exotic impression of Chinese Australian history the 1850s walk from the......more

An engrossing, highly original and award-winning exploration of the Australian middle class. Journeyings begins with a t......more

Challenges the web of powerful images which has shaped academic and popular thinking on the early settlement period. The......more

Beyond the Silver Screen tells the history of women’s engagement with filmmaking and film culture in twentieth-century A......more

Station Amusements in New Zealand, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so ......more

Station Life in New Zealand, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that t......more

Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van ......more

These journals, some of the most valuable items in the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria, have never before be......more

On the 28th of February 2020, New Zealand has its first confirmed case of Covid-19. By the 26th of March, the country ha......more

Preparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism in Pa......more

A lyrical combination of history, memoir and contemplation, examining the lives of women settlers in Australia and Canad......more

This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples....more

Chosen as worthy, Bridget was selected from the other young girls at the Waterford workhouse for a free passage to Austr......more

Raised amongst the criminals and fighters of Birmingham her path was set. Transported to New South Wales and sent out pa......more

Scott laid the foundations of a historical profession in this country and trained Australians to understand their coloni......more

The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its win......more

Foundation biography of the woman whose remarkable achievements first asserted the place of women in Australian public l......more

James Rigby was born in Ireland 1809. Eventually settling in Lancashire, convicted of attempting to steal one silk handk......more

This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate pos......more

This is the story of HMAS Canberra from from the time the ship was commissioned in 1928 to the last terrifying moments w......more

Rabaul, New Guinea, is a tropical paradise, but between January and July 1942 it was a tragic and terrifying place. Hund......more

More than a century ago an Aboriginal community in Victoria campaigned for recognition of their right to occupy and cont......more

Centering on cases of sexual violence, this open access book illuminates the contested introduction of British and Frenc......more

When aborigines murdered a sailor from the Dutch ship Duyfken on the west coast of Cape York in 1606, it was the beginni......more

The story of the campaign that almost lost the Anzacs and the retreat that saved a nation. Stan Watson was among the fir......more

Around 1910 a forward thinking Catholic priest, Archibald Shaw, was experimenting with spark-gap wireless about a decade......more

Mystic Isles of the South Seas, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered importan......more

Fallen Now Forgotten tells the story of the soldiers who do not have any living descendants to remember their sacrifices......more

Vivid and explosive, Gangland Sydney is compulsive reading. Gangland Sydney details the exploits of an unforgettable cas......more

Winner, Best True Crime, Ned Kelly Awards, 2011 Two bound Thai prostitutes are thrown into a Northern Territory river te......more

Gangland Australia surveys our criminal landscape from the early 1800s to the recent underworld killings in Melbourne. G......more

Northern Australia was once one the most remote areas of the world. To all its early visitors-Macassan fishermen, white ......more

The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has b......more

Translated from the French and Retold By Helen Rosenman Dumont d’Urville’s two epic voyages to the South Pacific and Ant......more