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Twenty to the Mile: The Overland Telegraph Line
The greatest engineering feat of 19th century Australia
The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph. This is a history of the Overland Telegragh Line from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, written for its 150th anniversary.
ISBN-13: 9780648142195 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh
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AUD $39.95
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 15/12/2021
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Day 9 at Wooreen
Kidnapped on his ninth day of teaching, Rob Hunter retells the story of how Edwin John Eastwood, the Faraday kidnapper, having escaped from prison, burst into his remote South Gippsland school and at gun point took Rob and his nine students hostage.
ISBN-13: 9781925642766 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Rob Hunter
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AUD $24.99
Stock: 126 in stock
Local release date: 01/05/2019
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Breaking Ranks
An Amazing True Story of a Cop on the Line
The inside story of the Walsh Street Task Force and how a young policeman advanced through Victoria Police in the turbulent 1980s.
ISBN-13: 9781925927481 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Joe Noonan
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 48 in stock
Local release date: 03/02/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True crime [BTC]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]True stories of heroism, endurance & survival [BTP]Society & social sciences [J]Social services & welfare, criminology [JK]Crime & criminology [JKV]Criminal investigation & detection [JKVF]

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Back O'Cairns
Trekking The Cape York Peninsula
In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as “Gouger” for the Bulletin.In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler’s axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the ......
ISBN-13: 9780648739043 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $34.95
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Local release date: 18/11/2021
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Escape
The true story of the only Westerner ever to break out of Thailand'sBangkok Hilton
“This is one of the world’s most notorious—and remarkable—heroin traffickers: Melbourne man David McMillan. Despite still being on the run, McMillan has written a book, Escape, about … his amazing breakout in Bangkok” The Australian.
ISBN-13: 9781912049967 (Paperback)
Publisher: MONSOON BOOKS
Imprint: MONSOON BOOKS
David McMillan
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AUD $22.99
Stock: 8 in stock
Local release date: 13/10/2021
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Not So Sloppy
‘Sloppy’ to his colleagues, Ian Hyslop was Channel 7’s correspondent in Los Angeles in the 1980s, reporting on everything from the antics of Hollywood legends to the power plays of American politicians. Witness the world through Ian’s eyes as he chronicles his story from ABC cadet to mainstream television journalist and newsreader. Not so Sloppy ......
ISBN-13: 9780645991208 (Paperback)
Publisher: IAN HYSLOP
Imprint: IAN HYSLOP
Ian Hyslop
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AUD $29.95
Stock: 511 in stock
Local release date: 01/05/2024
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Categories: Biography: general [BG]Collected biographies [BK]Memoirs [BM]True stories [BT]

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FORTY FATHOMS DEEP
Pearl Divers & Sea Rovers in Australian Seas
As much a history of pearling and lugging in and around Broome, this has been out of print for 30 years, but now in its 22nd edition.
ISBN-13: 9781922384805 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $34.95
Stock: 42 in stock
Local release date: 15/10/2020
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Murder by the Prosecution
A disturbing expose of wrongful murder convictions: Sue Neill-Fraser, Henry Keogh, David Szach and Gordon Wood.
ISBN-13: 9781925642537 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Andrew L. Urban
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 33 in stock
Local release date: 01/08/2018
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Tracks of Destiny
From Derby to Tennant Creek
Back in print after 60 years. Ion Idriess was one of those who set out from Derby with the ending of the Wet. This is the story of his wanderings in 1932-3 and what he heard and saw along the way, at a time when wireless and air and motor transport were rapidly changing life in the North and North-west.
ISBN-13: 9781922473936 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $34.95
Stock: 23 in stock
Local release date: 18/11/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]