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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
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much a part of this era.
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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
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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.