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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres now known as Passchendaele in 1917 would have... RRP: $34.95 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Hanged Man and the Body Thief 1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man's... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Maestro John Monash Who was the most innovative general of World War One? For Tim Fischer, the answer has to be Australia's 'Maestro' John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper due.Fischer... RRP: $32.99 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between... RRP: $45.00 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Broad Arrow Caroline Leakey, writing as Olin Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middleclass woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then... RRP: $40.00 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Enchantment of English The Enchantment of English is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities, from its beginnings in the second half of the 19th century through to the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which universities proliferated and diversified. Written... RRP: $45.00 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Search for Security in the Pacific 1901-1914 The Search for Security in the Pacific 1901-1914 is the first volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australia's relations with the world, from the founding of the Commonwealth to the Great War and its immediate aftermath. The outbreak of the... RRP: $50.00 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859 Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug and charade. For 20 years he... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales in the Year 1813 Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales in the Year 1813 was first published in 1823. It is a romantic and descriptive narrative of the journey to find a path across the Blue Mountains and received a great reception... RRP: $15.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Goldfish in the Parlour 'For the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enclosed in glass.'The experience of seeing a fish swimming in a glass tank is one we take... RRP: $35.00 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Speak My Name 'Speak my name so that I may live again' was often written on the walls of Egyptian tombs, imploring visitors to speak the names of the dead and make offerings on their behalf. These acts of continued remembrance sustained the dead in... RRP: $40.00 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Recording Kastom Recording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea through the journals of zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Haddon, who visited the islands in 1888 and 1898.Haddon's published reports of these trips were hugely... RRP: $60.00 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Letters to Australia, Volume 4 In the Pacific, Australia entered the multi-lateral ANZUS treaty, consolidatingthe nation's independence of Britain; Communist China pressed its claims toreplace Taiwan on the Security Council; Queen Elizabeth II began her longreign; and adventurism by... RRP: $50.00 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Christina Stead and the Matter of America Christina Stead set five of her novels in the United States, capturing and critiquing American life with uncanny sharpness. Yet her relationship with place and nation remains difficult to pin down: she resisted the label 'expatriate' and her books defy... RRP: $45.00 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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