Remarkable Incidents in the Life of The Rev. Samuel Leigh missionary to the settlers and savages of Australia and New Zealand with a succinct history of the origin and progress of the missions in those colonies by Alexander Strachan
$450.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Church History | Reading Level: very good
Indigenous Victorians: repressed, resourceful and respected. The La Trobe Journal No. 85 May 2010 by Lynette Russell and John Arnold (eds)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: near fine
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
Treasures of the State Library of New South Wales by Anne Robertson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Southern Justice by Colin McLaren
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: near fine
Who really murdered Bob Chappell? Veteran ex-detective and author of JFK: The Smoking Gun, Colin McLaren, uncovers disturbing new evidence that an innocent woman is in jail. Daybreak, Sandy Bay, Hobart, 27 January 2009. A yacht, the Four Winds, is seen listing low to the waterline. When police board the ...Show more
The Fatal Shore - A history of the transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
$20.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good to very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
Ads That Made Australia by John Bruden-Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good
Last Woman Hanged: The terrible, true story of Louisa Collins by Caroline Overington
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died suddenly. The C ...Show more
Ever Yours, C H Spence. Catherine Helen Spence's an Autobiography 1825-1910, Diary 1894, and Correspondence 1894-1910 by Catherine Helen Spence
$30.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Ever Yours, C.H. Spence offers a narrative of the life of Catherine Helen Spence, in the spirit of the recent bestseller Blue Ribbons and Bitter Bread by Susanna de Vries. Novelist, journalist, preacher, public campaigner for social and electoral reform and life-long promoter of the rights of women, Spe ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told by Henry Reynolds
$10.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good
This memoir tells of the author's journey towards the realisation that the version of the past he grew up with was distorted and idealised. Examines ideas about the settlement of Australia by Europeans and discusses topics such as Land Rights, the Mabo decision, pastoral leases and the pursuit of justic ...Show more