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Prospecting for Gold (Revised Edition)
The classic self-help manual for gold prospecting in Australia, by the author of Lasster's Last Ride.
ISBN-13: 9781923024618 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: IMPRINT CLASSICS
Ion Idriess
Price:
AUD $29.95
Stock: 36 in stock
Local release date: 01/03/2024
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Mining technology & engineering [TTU]

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Almost a French Australia
Decades before the First Fleet, French ships were exploring large stretches of Australia. This Handsomely colour-illustrated book tells the story of intrepid French explorers who charted and named many regions, laid claim to the West Coast and, but for upheavals back in Europe, could have established a French colony in Australia.
ISBN-13: 9781925043396 (Paperback)
Publisher: HALSTEAD PRESS
Imprint: HALSTEAD PRESS
Noelene Bloomfield
Price:
AUD $38.95
Stock: 770 in stock
Local release date: 05/12/2017
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Geographical discovery & exploration [RGR]Navigation & seamanship [TRLN]

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Upfield at Albermarle
A study of Arthur Upfield and his long-term relationship with Albermarle station, in north-western NSW from the early 1920s, where he found so many characters and plots for his Bony novels, featuring an Aboriginal detective. Upfield's letters to EV (Verco) Whyte, the overseer at Albermarle, who inspired Upfield's Gripped By Drought, are augmented ......
ISBN-13: 9781922698773 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Maxine Withers
Price:
AUD $24.95
Stock: 40 in stock
Local release date: 12/04/2023
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Categories: Autobiography: literary [BGLA]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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The Origins, Career and Destruction of the Kelly Gang
Originally published in 1894 and one of the rarest of all Kellyana, this has been out of print in any form for over 100 years. Fully illustrated with contemporary engravings and photographs, for the 140th anniversary of the events at Stringybark Creek.
ISBN-13: 9781925706604 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
F Hunter
Price:
AUD $19.99
Stock: 26 in stock
Local release date: 12/09/2018
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Australia [1MBF]

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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
Ion Idriess
Price:
AUD $34.95
Stock: 11 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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The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney: The First 200 Years
There is much more to the Garden than the living collection on open air display. This beautiful hardcover book provides a fascinating insight into the rich and colourful history of the Garden through intriguing stories and over 200 images from the Garden’s early years to its world-class status today.
ISBN-13: 9781925043204 (Hardback)
Publisher: HALSTEAD PRESS
Imprint: HALSTEAD PRESS
Jennie Churchill
Price:
AUD $65.00
Stock: 975 in stock
Local release date: 20/11/2015
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Botany & plant sciences [PST]Horticulture [TVS]Gardening [WM]Australia [1MBF]

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Mutineers
A True Story of heroes and Villains
The story of five young Australian sailors seeking adventure in a far off war who fell foul of British Imperial authority and sparked one of the most controversial events in the annals of the Royal Australian Navy. Mutineers explores the use and abuse of power by our military and political leaders at a critical time in our nation’s history.
ISBN-13: 9781925927573 (Paperback)
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Imprint: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
Robert Hadler
Price:
AUD $29.99
Stock: 20 in stock
Local release date: 26/03/2021
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Drums of Mer (Revised Edition)
An authentic picture of life among the headunting warriors of the Torres Strait islands, now in its 24th edition.
ISBN-13: 9781922384041 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
Price:
AUD $34.95
Stock: 13 in stock
Local release date: 05/03/2020
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Oral history [HBTD]

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Lasseter's Diary
Transcribed with Mud-Maps
The diary was purchased by Ion Idriess from Lasseter’s widow in 1931, and from it he wrote the best-seller Lasseter’s Last Ride. Here is the transcription of the diary with its original mud-maps and drawings.
ISBN-13: 9781922384003 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Harold Lasseter
Price:
AUD $24.95
Stock: 7 in stock
Local release date: 04/03/2020
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Technology, engineering, agriculture [T]Other technologies & applied sciences [TT]Mining technology & engineering [TTU]