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A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Austr...
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PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS TO ARRIVE Thirty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Australia woke up to the news that Darwin had been devastated by Cyclo...
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First there was Girt. Now comes ...True Girt In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian front...
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The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the shee...
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The history of Australia’s north coast is a story of ancient industry and international trade with tentacles that reached as far as China. It tells...
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Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produc...
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Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor h...
View full detailsVOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING: THE NORTHERN TERRITORY'S HISTORY OF PUBLIC PHILANTHROPY
This book represents the first consolidated history of vocational education and training in the Northern Territory. Not only does the story present...
View full detailsWALKING WITH CAMELS: THE STORY OF BERTHA STREHLOW
In this volume, Leni Shilton offers us a woman’s exploration of loss and survival in a savagely beautiful landscape. The story of Bertha Strehlow -...
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The Palmerston Dingo Glee Club was one of the earliest musical groups in the Northern Territory. In this book, Paolo Fabris and Steven Farram explo...
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In 1829 Captain Fremantle formally laid Great Britain’s claim to all of New Holland outside the bounds of New South Wales and to garrison a vast co...
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WRITTEN BY MRS BACH Did Mrs Bach write some of our greatest musical works? It's not often that one of the world's greatest composers is accused of ...
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