Hear Them Roar: Strong Women with Colourful Stories by Elizabeth Fysh
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It’s a marvellous collection of inspiring stories from some of Australia’s most soul-stirring women; an eye-opening window into astonishing lives built on strength of character and an independent spirit. From medical professionals who achieved astonishing success with ground-breaking methods, to a cele ...Show more
Montville Remembers World War One 1914 - 1919 by Gordon Plowman; Cate Patterson (Editor)
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Montville Remembers: World War One 1914 - 1919Montville Remembers tells the stories of 53 young men from Montville who enlisted in World War One and how their community supported and honoured them. It begins with a brief history of this war to provide a context for their service and sacrifice. Then a Ro ...Show more
Montville Post Office 1897 - 2022 by Doug Patterson; Cate Patterson (Cover Design by, Designed by, Editor)
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Montville Post Office 1897 - 2022 is Book 8 in the Montville Stories Series. Although it relies heavily on the centenary history published in 1997, it is much more than a re-print or second edition of that publication. Additional information from the Smith, Cuthbertson and Blair families expanded on th ...Show more
Silky Oaks and Camphor Laurels Centenary of the Opening of Flaxton Provisional (State) School, 1922 - 2022 by Gordon Plowman
20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The book describes the author's school boy memories of his time at Flaxton Provisional School in the 1930s and 40s. The author describes the nature of schooling in this era and the fight by the little community to establish the school and reveals its importance as the only public building in the communi ...Show more
Home on the Range Memories of the Cuthbertson Family 1953 - 1965 by Ruth Barden
20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Home on the Range contains the memories of Grandmother, Ruth Barden, of growing up in Montville in the 1950s. Times were tough. Washing machines took the form of backyard coppers and concrete tubs. Stoves were wood fired. Mum made your clothes. You walked to school - bare footed. You sat on a long form ...Show more
Fifty Years of Boom and Bust 1914 To 1964 by Cate Patterson (Cover Design by, Non-text material selected by, Editor, (various roles)); Doug Patterson ((various roles), Commentaries by, Interviewer, Editor, Introductions and notes by)
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Fifty Years of Boom and Bust is a collection of stories from many different sources that capture Montville's history from 1914 to 1964. The majority were written by members of the Montville History Group (MHG) past and present, based on interviews with those who lived through these times or their famili ...Show more
Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910 by Noah Riseman
40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they've lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret shows, worked on the streets or run for parliament. But over the last century there have been remarkable changes in how they have identified and expressed t ...Show more
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map by Grantlee Kieza
45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery - to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land ...Show more
Horseman of the Outback: Their Spurs and Spurmakers by Don John Edward Corcoran
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is an extremely well researched work which will be treasured by all horse riders. It is a very thorough account of Australian spurs and the bush blacksmiths like Fred Gutte who designed his on Wave Hill Station, but is is much more that that. If offers a romantic folklore of the horsemaen who used ...Show more
Ten Thousand Campfires by Rex Ellis
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Known as desert wanderer with sense of humour travelling the outback of australia africa and india with loads of stories and yarns to tell.
Fettered FrontierFounding the Moreton Bay Settlement The First Four Years 1822–1826 by Jennifer Harrison
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Historian Jennifer Harrison’s latest book Fettered Frontier, Founding the Moreton Bay Settlement 1822–1826, a companion volume to Shackled: Female Convicts at Moreton Bay 1826 –1839 (2016) investigates the struggle to locate and establish an outpost in remote Moreton Bay. She uses original government co ...Show more