Quicksands - Foundational histories in Australia and Aotearos New Zealand by Klaus Neumann (ed.); Nicholas Thomas (ed.); Hilary Ericksen (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
Locomotives of Australia 1850s-2007 by Leon Oberg
$25.00 NZD
Category: railway | Reading Level: very good
The first edition of this book appeared as a 272 page work three decades ago, its main aim being to provide a potted examination of the multiplicity of steam, diesel and electric locomotives that have graced this country from 1854. Since this first humble appearance, the book has grown in content, photo ...Show more
Trains and Railways of Australia by Jim Powe
$25.00 NZD
Category: railway | Reading Level: very good
Jim Powe has released his exclusive and unique photographic collection of Australian railways from the 1940s to the present day. There are over 300 pages and many colour photographs. Organised into states, each section includes an introduction, with images captioned in detail.
State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand Volume I and Volume II by W Pember Reeves
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A Collector's Guide to Modern Australian Ceramics by Janet Mansfield
$30.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
A History of the AMP 1848 1998 by Geoffrey Blainey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$14.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
True Stories - Boyer Lectures 1999 by Inga Cledinnen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good
Mapped but not Known - The Australian Landscape of the Imagination - Essay & Poems presented to Brian Elliott LXXV 11 April 1985 by P R Eaden (ed.); F. H. Mares (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Prince of the Church - Patrick Francis Moran 1830-1911 by Philip Ayres
$25.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
A biography of Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), cardinal archbishop of Sydney, based on research in Australia, Italy and Ireland. It places Moran within the historical contexts of his life's work: Rome of the 1848 revolution, Italy of the risorgimento, Ireland in the age of rebellion, and Australia in ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$14.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more
Battle Lines - Australian Artists at War by Scott Bevan
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
From World War II to Vietnam and two Gulf Wars artists have shaped how we see war, immortalising soldiers and battles and influencing how we see ourselves as Australians. The war artist has opened our eyes and perceptions to historic events that would otherwise have been censored, distorted of forgotten ...Show more