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NATURE'S LINE: GEORGE GOYDER, SURVEYOR, ENVIRONMENTALIST, VISIONARY
George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows...
View full detailsNORTHERN TERRITORY DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY REVISED EDITION
NORTHERN VOYAGERS AUSTRALIAS MONSOON COAST IN MARITIME HISTORY
NORTHERN VOYAGERS AUSTRALIAS MONSOON COAST IN MARITIME HISTORY
NOT QUITE WHITE IN THE HEAD
Miles Franklin-award winner Melissa Lucashenko's searing essays and journalism published together for the first time. 'For thousands of years, glob...
View full detailsOCHRE & RUST ARTEFACTS & ENCOUNTERS ON AUSTRALIAN FRONTIERS
Ochre and Rust takes nine Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and positions them at the centre of these gripping, poignant...
View full detailsON LEICHHARDTS PATH KAKADU 1845
A Charles Darwin University academic has shed light on the death of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, whose disappearance in the Outback has remained a m...
View full detailsPEOPLE OF THE RIVER LOST WORLDS OF EARLY AUSTRALIA
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Ka...
View full detailsPORT ESSINGTON: THE BRITISH IN NORTH AUSTRALIA 1838-49
For many of the Royal Marines sent to Port Essington, life was a living hell of malaria, scurvy, termites, shipwrecks, cyclones, boredom, isolation...
View full detailsRADAR GUNNER
Dick Dakeyne’s self-published book Radar Gunner has won the 2015 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Radar Gunner tells of Dake...
View full detailsRIGHT MAN PLACE TIME WORST TIME
In May 1939, Australia's Naval Intelligence had the foresight to set up a network of men located on various islands north of Australia to report on...
View full detailsSEA PEOPLE THE PUZZLE OF POLYNESIA
Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history. How di...
View full detailsTHE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY INDUSTRY
Australian history has undergone major transformations over the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Started by small groups of antiquarians and n...
View full detailsTHE AUSTRALIAN WARS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BLOODY BATTLES FOUGHT TO ESTABLISH THE NATION
For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in...
View full detailsTHE BRITISH IN NORTH AUSTRALIA 1824-29 FORT DUNDAS
Fort Dundas was the first outpost of Europeans in Australia's north. It was a British fortification manned by soldiers, marines and convicts, and b...
View full detailsTHE BUTTERFLY THIEF ADVENTURE, EMPIRE, AND AUSTRALIA'S GREATEST MUSEUM HEIST
The story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australia's museums - and the British gentleman adventurer who pulled it off and got...
View full detailsTHE CATTLE KING
This engrossing story by famous Australian author Ion Idriess is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King...
View full detailsTHE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREW...
View full detailsTHE HUMAN PAST WORLD PREHISTORY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SOCIETIES
A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world prehistory.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES AND THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE
The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage ClassicsDiscover Charles Darwin's most important ideas...When the eminent nat...
View full detailsTHE RAGGED THIRTEEN
In 1886, a notorious gang of horsemen wreaked havoc on the Overlanders' Trail that stretched across the Northern Territory into the wild Kimberley ...
View full detailsTHE SHORTEST HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this. In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new ve...
View full detailsTHE SQUATTERS GRAB
Millions of Australians who will vote in the upcoming referendum have little knowledge of the history of our relations with the traditional owne...
View full detailsTHE STORY OF AUSTRALIA'S PEOPLE: THE RISE AND FALL OF ANCIENT AUSTRALIA
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when th...
View full detailsTOP END NURSES BUSH NURSES IN THE TOP END OF AUSTRALIA'S NORTHERN TERRITORY 1964-1973
TOP END NURSES BUSH NURSES IN THE TOP END OF AUSTRALIA'S NORTHERN TERRITORY 1964-1974