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Stories from the Sandstone
Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia's Immigrant Past
Quarantine Station, North Head, Manly, is home to more than 1600 inscriptions carved by those who have visited its grounds over its 200 year history.
ISBN-13: 9780994310767 (Hardback)
Publisher: ARBON
Imprint: ARBON
Peter Hobbins
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AUD $44.99
Stock: 23 in stock
Local release date: 22/11/2016
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Migration, immigration & emigration [JFFN]Australia [1MBF]

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Colonial Kitchen
Australia 1788-1901
The Colonial Kitchen: Australia 1788-1901 explores the food and cookery of colonial Australians, challenging the prevailing stereotypes of them as dreadful cooks and uncouth eaters through a nuanced exploration of their kitchens, gardens and dining rooms, and the social and cultural systems that shaped their culinary practices.
ISBN-13: 9781442249813 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Charmaine O'Brien
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AUD $222.00
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 14/11/2016
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Greek Cafes and Milk Bars of Australia
Nostalgic trip to the days when the Greek Café was the gathering place for every town and suburb. Effy Alexakiss evocative photos are paired with marvellous images from family albums. The cafes and the people behind them, showing décor, milkshakes, sundaes and innovative sweets were combined in a unique and special Australian experience. The ......
ISBN-13: 9781925043181 (Paperback)
Publisher: HALSTEAD PRESS
Imprint: HALSTEAD PRESS
Effy Alexakis, Leonard Janiszewsk
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AUD $49.95
Stock: 312 in stock
Local release date: 30/03/2016
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Australia [1MBF]

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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
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AUD $65.00
Stock: 973 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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SNOWY: The Making of Modern Australia
The Snowy Mountains Scheme changed Australia forever. A country founded on stolid British stock almost overnight became one of the world’s great pancultures. Tens of thousands of workers from more than 30 lands poured into what was the undisturbed pastoral realm of the high country stockman, the southern Outback. As they drilled and tunnelled ......
ISBN-13: 9780977502936 (Paperback)
Publisher: CORETEXT PUBLISHING
Imprint: CORETEXT PUBLISHING
Brad Collis
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AUD $39.95
Stock: 177 in stock
Local release date: 20/04/2015
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Hydraulic engineering [TNF]History & the past: general (Children/Teenage) [YNH]

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Historical Dictionary of Australia 4ed
This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Australia covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
ISBN-13: 9781442245013 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Norman Abjorensen, James C. Docherty
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AUD $359.00
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Local release date: 13/02/2015
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Untold Valor
The Second World War in the Pacific
Rob Morris spent three years interviewing veterans of the war in the Pacific, focusing on men who had undergone extreme combat, imprisonment, or sinking. Each chapter tells the reader, through the eyes of one to three survivors, what is was like to live through some of the greatest challenges of the Pacific War. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima.
ISBN-13: 9781781551950 (Hardback)
Publisher: FONTHILL
Imprint: FONTHILL
Rob Morris
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AUD $66.99
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 08/01/2015
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]Second World War [HBWQ]Land forces & warfare [JWD]Pacific Ocean [1QSP]c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) [3JJH]

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Glen Davis
A Ghost Town and Its People
An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol.
ISBN-13: 9781920831707 (Hardback)
Publisher: HALSTEAD PRESS
Imprint: HALSTEAD PRESS
Leonie Knapman
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AUD $64.95
Stock: 538 in stock
Local release date: 22/09/2014
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Categories: General & world history [HBG]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]Australia [1MBF]

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Biography of a Book:
Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils
Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge ......
ISBN-13: 9780271061962 (Hardback)
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Paul Eggert
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AUD $148.00
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 14/12/2013
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]