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18 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au HISTORY TRUE GIRT UNDER FULL SAIL David Hunt RRP $32.99 Rob Mundle RRP $45.00 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 frontier. Rob Mundle is back on the water. Under Full Sail is brimming with countless stories of the magnificent ships and fearless (and feckless) characters we find on them, driving their vessels to the limit and the tragic legacy of Our Price the many shipwrecks that were so $ 00 much a part of this era. 40 VICTORIA THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK Julia Baird RRP $49.99 James Cook John Hawesworth Nicholas Thomas RRP $49.99 This is a fascinating, provocative and authoritative new biography of Queen Victoria which will make us see her in a new light, from one of Australia’s most admired and respected journalists and commentators, Julia Baird. This book reveals the epic eighteenth-century voyages of Captain James Cook and his crew, beautifully illustrated through excerpts from Cook’s journals, illustrations, photography, and more. SWALLOWED BY THE SEA Graeme Henderson RRP $44.99 From English and Dutch trading vessels in the seventeenth century to emigrant ships in the nineteenth century and the great warships of the Second World War, Swallowed by the Sea explains how each ship was wrecked and discovered, and what remains of these wrecks today. THE STORY OF AUSTRALIA’S PEOPLE Geoffrey Blainey RRP $49.99 In Volume II of The Story of Australia’s People, Geoffrey Blainey continues his account of the history of this country from the early Gold Rush to the present day, completing the story of our nation and its people. RARE TREASURES FROM THE EDGE Mark McKenna RRP $34.99 This new telling, in four short histories, of the central drama of Australia’s past - the encounter between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians - may hold the key to understanding this land and its people. THE TUNNELS Greg Mitchell RRP $34.99 The Tunnels is a thrilling Cold War narrative exploring the harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunnelling beneath the Berlin Wall. Capturing the hopes and fears of Berliners and the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police, this is a breaking history with themes that still reverberate today. Judith Magee RRP $50.00 This is a stunningly illustrated book featuring a special selection of some the most exceptional natural history books of all time Our Price 2499 $ HIGH COUNTRY HUTS & HOMESTEADS Craig Lewis Cathy Savage RRP $49.99 This is a nostalgic collection of abandoned mountain homesteads, shearer’s huts, traveller’s shelters and many other lonely structures.