Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians by Carolyn L. Karcher
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him--with the child--for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among antipatriarchal and antiracist novels in American literatur ...Show more
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Literally impossible to put down' New York Times Book Review Gordon Thomas has a grasp of history...this is one of the few books to have captured the true nature of the Israeli Government and the thorough process of the Israeli power elite. Ari Ben-Menashe, Former Adviser on Intelligence to the Israeli ...Show more
Early Mapping of the Pacific - The epic story of seafarers, adventurers and cartographers who mapped the earth's greatest ocean by Thomas Suarez
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Pacific Ocean remained a mystery to mapmakers until the latter part of the eighteenth century. This book traces the exploration and charting of the great ocean through a cornucopia of rare and beautiful maps stretching from Japan on the northwest through Juan Fernandez on the southeast, with the var ...Show more
Australian Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific in WWII by Lachlan Grant
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
The hidden story of how Australian troops' close encounters with the cultures of our nearest neighbours altered our national identity. Half a million Australians encountered a new world when they entered Asia and the Pacific during World War II: different peoples, cultures, languages and religions chaf ...Show more
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation by Michael Kazin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
An intimate history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from ...Show more
Australia Under Surveillance by Frank Moorhouse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist aler ...Show more
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Australia has always been reliant on great and powerful friends' for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policy—first on the British Empire and now on the United States. Australia has actively pursued a policy of strategic dependence, believing that making a grand bargain wi ...Show more
A Shorter History of Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport, the suspicion of the tall po ...Show more
Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
"The ancient Greeks continue to fascinate us - they gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets; laid ...Show more
Australia on Horseback by Cameron Forbes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The first horse set foot in Australia on 30 January 1788, one of seven aboard the First Fleet's Lady Penrhyn, which also carried a cargo of female convicts. From then on, horses carried explorers who opened up the country to settlement. They carried Aboriginal mounted police, trained as ruthless killers ...Show more
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation by Nancy Rubin Stuart
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth ...Show more
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mountains of ...Show more