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GOLD DUST AND ASHES
The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields
Idriess latest book is the romance of the Edie Creek and Bulolo diggings, situated inland from Salamau; and the associated names of diggers as "Shark Eye Bill" (William Park), Matt Crowe, Jim Preston, Arthur Dowling, Frank and Jim Pryke... men who in pre-war years crept across the frontier, defying the Germans and dodging the headhunters.
ISBN-13: 9781922384782 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Idriess, Ion
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 15 in stock
Local release date: 29/08/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Strangers on the Praia:
A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao
ISBN-13: 9789887963899 (Paperback)
Publisher: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
Imprint: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
Author: Frernch, Paul
Price:
AUD $17.99
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 29/08/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Humanities [H]History [HB]European history [HBJD]Military history [HBW]Society & social sciences [J]Society & culture: general [JF]Social issues & processes [JFF]Refugees & political asylum [JFFD]

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Beyond the Newsroom
Politics, Power and People
Beyond the Newsroom takes the reader back to the key events and people in power that have shaped the world over the last 50 years, as seen by and told through a journalist’s observations and impressions.
ISBN-13: 9781925927047 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Author: Kitney, Geoff
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AUD $34.99
Stock: 146 in stock
Local release date: 15/07/2020
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Categories: True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Literature & literary studies [D]Prose: non-fiction [DN]Reportage & collected journalism [DNJ]Press & journalism [KNTJ]

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The Yellow Joss
With authenticity that sometimes surprises the reader, Idriess introduces us to Aboriginals from Northern Australia, Papuan head- hunters, and Islanders around the Great Barrier Reef, all still in the colonial phase of European contact. Chinese gold diggers appear too, well before the rise of China. Idriess knew these individuals; he met them, ......
ISBN-13: 9781925706994 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Idriess, Ion
Price:
AUD $24.95
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 14/02/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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Madman's Island
In 1920, though, as the three ex-diggers talked across the bar at the West Coast, swapping stories of the War and goings-on in Cooktown and along the coast, the pioneer vision would have still been fresh and sustained by hope and dreams. All that was needed was a little luck – which might come from the Chinese gambling den across the way, or at ......
ISBN-13: 9781925706970 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Idriess, Ion
Price:
AUD $24.95
Stock: 16 in stock
Local release date: 06/02/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Autobiography: general [BGA]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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Growing Up in the 60s
From life in small New South Wales country towns to the glitter of Sydney, this memoir explores life in a changing Australia, from ages 7 to 17. Especially written and recorded for ABC Radio, this book evokes an innocent Australia through a quietly comic delivery.
ISBN-13: 9780648739029 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Thompson, Tom
Price:
AUD $19.99
Stock: 19 in stock
Local release date: 29/01/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Autobiography: general [BGA]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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Spiritual Resistance
Ita Wegman, 1933-1935
From 1933 to 1935, Ita Wegman was confronted by both Nazi fascism and internal crises in the General Anthroposophical Society. During those years, she travelled to Palestine in the fall of 1934 following a grave illness that nearly ended with her death. Her correspondence during this period, as well as her notes on the trip, reveal the great ......
ISBN-13: 9781621480655 (Paperback)
Publisher: STEINER BOOKS INC
Imprint: STEINER BOOKS INC
Author: Selg, Peter; Barton, Matthew
Price:
AUD $60.99
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 17/09/2014
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Categories: True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Theosophy & Anthroposophy [HRQC5]