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 | Missionaries, Headhunters and Colonial Officers
Peter Maiden
ISBN: 1876 780 29 0
When the Goaribari headhunters slaughtered the veteran James Chalmers of the London Missionary Society and his group, they attracted the wrath and vengeance of the Colonial Office. This history is as true as it is spellbinding. | $28.95 | 
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 | National Treasure
Michael Wilding
ISBN: 192127400X
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 | No Holds Barred
Murray Johnson
ISBN: 1876780452
Hughie Williams is something of a sacred icon in Queensland trade union politics. This book is his life story. It is not a rags to riches story, but the story of a man who dragged himself out of grinding poverty and made it to the top of the trade union movement, always speaking up for what he believed in. It is a story of determination and never giving up. | $25.95 |
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 | Nomads of the 19th Century Queensland Goldfields
Lennie Wallace
ISBN: 1875998896
Featuring Scottish immigrant Dr. Jack Hamilton as pugilist, prospector, physician and politician in the 19th century goldfields from Gympie to the Palmer. All the excitement and madness of the Queensland goldfields. | $28.95 |
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 | Norfolk Island: A revised and Enlarged History 1774-1998
Merval Hoare
ISBN: 187599856X
Now in it's fifth edition and second reprint, Norfolk Island: A Revised and Enlarged History 1774-1998 is an authoritative account of the island's fascinating history -- from its European discovery by Captain Cook, through its use first as a notorious penal colony and then as a new home for Pitcairn Islanders, to the island's development in more recent years as a popular destination for tourists. | $35.00 |
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 | On the Wallaby
Gerald Walsh
ISBN: 1876780622
On the Wallaby is the sequel to The Bush and the Never Never and continues to revisit and explore the largely neglected but important aspects of life in the Australian bush – the deeds of colourful pioneers, bizarre incidents and little known or forgotten facts about rural life. | $25.95 |
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 | Pitcairn: Island at the Edge of Time
Susanne Chauvel Carlsson
ISBN: 1875998926
Three Generations of Chauvels, beginning with Charles Chauvel's film In the Wake of the Bounty, give intimate perspective's on the hardy and picturesque people of this remote rocky island. | $25.95 |
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 | Queensland Battlers: a story map
John Wright
ISBN: 1876780959
These are the stories of men, women and children who found themselves in trouble, one way or another, in Queensland's past, whether by choice, accident or through the grand schemes of others. They are all true and appear on a 'story map' of Queensland, which shows where each happened. | $25.95 |
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 | Queensland Desperadoes
Cyril Grabs
ISBN: 1875998969
Features the Kennif brothers, Fagan's Gang, the Abercrombie Gang, James McPherson, Frank 'Darkie' Gardiner & Gold Commissioner Griffin. | $25.95 |
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 | Red Dust Rising
Marion Houldsworth
ISBN: 1876780525
This is the inspiring story of a northern cattleman who built up the Urapunga cattle station from nothing. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he lived rough and worked hard. He worked closely with the tribal Aborigines, made Urapunga a dry station, coped with the many crocodiles in the Roper River, fought against cattle diseases, hunted buffalo, built himself a homestead...and survived. | $33.95 |
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 | Reinventing the Old Japan
Ishido & Myers
ISBN: 1876780045
In Reinventing the Old Japan eight senior Japanese law professors combine with five Australian and New Zealand academics to give specialised insights into the social dilemmas confronting Japan today. | $25.95 |
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 | Roping in the History of BRONCOING
Darrell Lewis
ISBN: 1921274034
Years of meticulous research have gone into writing this timely volume and, for anyone who is interested in authentic outback history and bronco branding in particular, this book is a must read. | $29.95 |
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 | Shipwreck of the New Guinea Gold Explorers
Peter Maiden
ISBN: 1875998853
In 1872, rumours of gold in the jungles of New Guinea were enough to drive a band of ill-prepared dreamers to hire a ship to take them there. But when the brig Maria was wrecked on a reef off Hinchenbrook Island, there began a horror story of swept seas, cowardice, and the will to survive. | $25.95 |
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 | Shipwrecks and Seafarers' Scandals
Tony Matthews
ISBN: 1875998861
From the coast of Colonial Queensland to the savage isles of the South Pacific in the 19th century. Massacres, murders, crimes, blacklegging the Kanakas, the horrific plight of the immigrants, and the stern processes of the law. | $29.95 |
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 | Showing Off
Judith McKay
ISBN: 1876780371
Many of us have happy memories of Brisbane's World Expo '88, but how many know of its ninteenth-century predecessor, the Queensland International Exhibition of 1897; or that between 1862 and 1988, Queensland took part in twenty-three world expositions?. Showing Off is the first ever account of Queensland as a global exhibitor. It is based on original research undertaken at home and abroad and is richly illustrated. | $29.95 |
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 | Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Wade Alexander
ISBN: 187678024X
Sister Kenny (1880 - 1952) struggled her whole life to win acceptance from conservative medicos for her unique treatment for polio. In 1951 she shared the title of Most Influential Woman in America with the President's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. An Australian heroine, she saved thousands from crippling paralysis. | $29.95 |
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 | Sturt's Desert Drama
Ivan Rudolph
ISBN: 1876780878
No-one who reads this book will view Charles Sturt or Australian exploration in the same light again.
1844 – A motley party under Charles Sturt sets out to penetrate Australia’s mysterious Centre. The massive, unwieldy expedition plods up the Murray, dragging along a whaleboat in the hopes of finding an inland sea.
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