The Great Barrier ReefHistory, Science, Heritage by James Bowen
$47.95 AUD
Category: Australian
One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometers in a maze of coral reefs along Australia's northeastern coastline. Until now, no biographer has brought the fascinating story behind its mystique into public view. This book provides a comprehensive cultural a ...Show more
Torres Strait IslandersCustom and Colonialism by Jeremy Beckett
$48.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia's 'other' indigenous minority. Their experience of colonialism and their reaction to their position in Australian society provides a striking counterpoint to that of the Aborigines. The author applies many years of study and work among the Torres Strait Islander ...Show more
The Coral Battleground by Judith Wright
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of Queensland: 2000 kilometres of spectacular coral reefs, sand cays and islands, Australias most precious marine possession. Teeming with life, it covers 350,000 square kilometres. In the late 1960s the Reef was threatened with limestone mining and oil drilling ...Show more
A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End by J. E. N. Veron
$35.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, J. E. N. Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. "Owned by a prosperous country and accorded the protection it deserves, it would surely not go the way of the Amazon rain forest or the parklands of Africa, but would en ...Show more
Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising by Alexandra Richie
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This is the first account to recall the tragedy from both German ...Show more
The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year by Nick Groom
$29.99 AUD
Category: British
"For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomised and urban lives and our weather becomes ever more unpredictable or extreme? In this splendidly rich and lyrical celebration of the English ...Show more
Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$37.00 AUD
Category: History
From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context. With over a million copies already sold, this revised and u ...Show more
The Silent Partner by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
$20.00 AUD
Category: American
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. A TROUBLESOME CHARACTER. / DEGREESLD Bijah Mudge stepped painfu ...Show more
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself: AND A True Life of Slavery by Harriet A. Jacobs
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South ...Show more
Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
$14.00 AUD
Category: American
This is Alcott's account of her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War in a Washington D.C. hospital. The sketches are taken ""from letters hastily written in the few leisure moments of a very busy life,"" and so maintain the immediacy and force of their author.
A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and generous selection of prose and letters, and provided moving ...Show more
The Hidden Hand (Dodo Press) by E D E N Southworth
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899) was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was probably the most widely read author of that era. Southworth's first story, The Irish Refugee, was published in the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. Some of her earl ...Show more