Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as ‘guide’s’, ‘native aides’, or ‘intermediaries’ have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: ...Show more
Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss by Nick Gadd
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered lost buildings, secret places and mysterious signs that told of forgotten stories and curious characters from the past. Soon afte ...Show more
Melbourne Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Remember dropping into the Coles Cafeteria on Bourke Street for a feast of rashers, sausages and mash, with gravy, from the bain marie? Or catching a 'red rattler' into the city? Eating a hot jam doughnut from the American Doughnut Kitchen van at the Queen Vic markets? If you answered yes to any of thes ...Show more
Melbourne Then and Now by Heather Chapman
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Then and Now® Ser.
The classic series from Anova Books, MELBOURNE: THEN AND NOW showcases vintage pictures of the city and compares them with the views as they look today. Part of Melbourne's charm is down to the preservation of grand buildings from its days as Australia's most populous and prosperous city. Victoria's gol ...Show more
Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market by Webster Tim
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
This illustrated anthology of the oral histories of the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne takes you behind the counters to reveal intimate views of the market's unique way of life. Drawn from more than a hundred and eighty interviews, and featuring beautiful and atmospheric photography throughout, Melb ...Show more
Memory Code by Lynne Kelly
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In the past, the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape, and the stars in the sky too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powe ...Show more
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of food restrictions and unfair punishments. Bligh's remarkable journey back to safety is well documented, but the fates of the mutinous men remain ...Show more
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last page.' Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeA mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famou ...Show more
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A ground-breaking book that examines the place of women in twentieth-century philosophy and is a call to arms for the present day 'Philosophy in a world of women. I reflected, talking with Mary, Pip and Elizabeth, how much I love them.' Two brilliant young scholars uncover the major (and unacknowledge ...Show more
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: PMC: An Informal History of the Republican and democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey ...Show more
Micro Life: Miracles of the Miniature World Revealed by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
This book combines graceful design and beautiful photography to provide an elegant introduction to microscopic nature. Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world. With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures be ...Show more
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'COE IS AMONG THE HANDFUL OF NOVELISTS WHO CAN TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEMPER OF OUR TIMES' OBSERVER 'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people' Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been rep ...Show more