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The Kelly Gang
Or, The Outlaws of the Wombat Ranges
The Kelly Gang: Or, The Outlaws of the Wombat Ranges was produced by George Wilson Hall, the owner of the Mansfield Guardian in 1879. It is the first and rarest book on Ned Kelly, there being only four copies known to exist, with none in private hands. Hall was close to several informants and appears to have exceptional first-hand accounts of ......
ISBN-13: 9781925416343 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Hall, George Wilson
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AUD $19.99
Stock: 53 in stock
Local release date: 02/03/2016
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]True crime [BTC]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL]Victoria [1MBFV]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]

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Fort Dundas
The British in North Australia 1824-29
Fort Dundas was the first outpost of Europeans in Australia's north. It was a British fortification manned by soldiers, marines and convicts, and built by them on remote Melville Island in 1824.
ISBN-13: 9780992355869 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 37 in stock
Local release date: 03/03/2017
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Social & cultural history [HBTB]Colonialism & imperialism [HBTQ]United Kingdom, Great Britain [1DBK]Northern Territory [1MBFX]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]

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Margaret Preston
Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney's art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years. 'A red-headed little firebrand of a woman', she was an artist who never stood ......
ISBN-13: 9781925416015 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Butel, Elizabeth
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 17 in stock
Local release date: 31/12/2015
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Categories: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - [ACX]Painting & paintings [AFC]Biography: general [BG]Australia [1MBF]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]20th century [3JJ]

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John Devoy's Catalpa Expedition
Details one of the most important rescues in Irish American history
ISBN-13: 9780814727744 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Author: Fennell, Philip; King, Marie; Golway, Terry
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AUD $48.99
Stock: 15 in stock
Local release date: 01/05/2008
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Categories: Maritime history [HBTM]Expeditions [WTLP]Australia [1MBF]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]

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Surrender of Napoleon
The Capture of the Emperor After Waterloo
Napoleon surrendered to HMS Bellerophon. He wished to be given free passport to America, but it was not to be.
ISBN-13: 9781781551769 (Paperback)
Publisher: FONTHILL
Imprint: FONTHILL
Author: Maitland, Frederick Lewis
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AUD $39.99
Stock: 14 in stock
Local release date: 16/12/2013
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Categories: European history [HBJD]Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL]Napoleonic Wars [HBWH]War & defence operations [JWL]France [1DDF]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]

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The Lion and the Dragon
Britain's Opium Wars with China 1839-1860
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India.
ISBN-13: 9781781557174 (Hardback)
Publisher: FONTHILL
Imprint: FONTHILL
Author: Simner, Mark
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AUD $65.00
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 11/10/2019
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Categories: True war & combat stories [BTM]Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL]Colonialism & imperialism [HBTQ]Military history [HBW]Battles & campaigns [JWLF]United Kingdom, Great Britain [1DBK]China [1FPC]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]

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Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson
Volume 1 - The Patriarch
Volume Nine begins with the death of the diarist's wife, Margaret, after a marriage of almost 42 years. Margaret's health had always been delicate and she finally declined and died of dropsy-what today might be referred to as an edema due to congestive heart failure. Margaret had never been a lively or outgoing person, but it had been a marriage ......
ISBN-13: 9781781556238 (Hardback)
Publisher: FONTHILL
Imprint: FONTHILL
Author: Witts, Francis and Sutton, Alan
Price:
AUD $115.00
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 27/04/2018
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Categories: Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]Gloucestershire [1DBKEWG]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]

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Blacks in Gray Uniforms: A New Look at the South's Most Forgotten Combat
A New Look at the South's Most Forgotten Combat Troops 1861-1865
This ground-breaking book takes an insightful and close "New Look" at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War--the long-overlooked battlefield contributions of the most forgotten fighting men of the Civil War, Black Confederates. With the release of the popular 1989 film Glory, the American public first learned about the heroism ......
ISBN-13: 9781634990431 (Paperback)
Publisher: FONTHILL
Imprint: FONTHILL
Author: Tucker, PH D Phillip Thomas
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AUD $52.99
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 21/04/2018
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]History of the Americas [HBJK]Military history [HBW]American Civil War [HBWJ]Warfare & defence [JW]USA [1KBB]Central Southern states [1KBBS]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]

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The Indian Mutiny Letters of Colonel H.P. Pearson August 1865-March 1859
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ISBN-13: 9780948092657 (Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
Author: Pearson, H.P.
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AUD $27.99
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 13/12/2017
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Categories: Asian history [HBJF]Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL]Military history [HBW]India [1FKA]c 1800 to c 1900 [3JH]