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Darwin - Origin of a City
A history of the settlement of Palmerston (Darwin) and the Northern Territory and the following decade 1870-1879.
ISBN-13: 9780648142140 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
Price:
AUD $34.95
Stock: 15 in stock
Local release date: 15/08/2019
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Darwin 1869
The Second Northern Territory Expedition
Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the governance of South Australia. Land was sold to investors, unseen and unsurveyed and in an unknown location. The sales raised the funds needed to found the new colony of Palmerston, the future capital of the ......
ISBN-13: 9780648142126 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
Price:
AUD $29.99
Stock: 13 in stock
Local release date: 31/07/2018
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Historical geography [HBTP]Geographical discovery & exploration [RGR]Australasia, Oceania & other land areas [1M]

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Darwin 1869: The First Year in Photographs
This is the story of the birth of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory. At first called Palmertston, Darwin is the only pre-Federation capital city in Australia which is young enough to have been photographed since its earliest days.
ISBN-13: 9780648142133 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
Price:
AUD $19.99
Stock: 74 in stock
Local release date: 01/10/2018
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Categories: Regional & national history [HBJ]

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Escape Cliffs
The First Northern Territory Expedition 1864-66
This is a true story of greed, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and extraordinary bushmanship, amid government bungling and Aboriginal resistance, during South Australia's first attempt at colonising their Northern Territory in 1864.
ISBN-13: 9780648142102 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
Price:
AUD $29.99
Stock: 13 in stock
Local release date: 31/03/2018
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Categories: Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Geographical discovery & exploration [RGR]Australasia, Oceania & other land areas [1M]

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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
Price:
AUD $29.99
Stock: 35 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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Fort Wellington: The British in North Australia 1827-29
This is the extraordinary forgotten story of the second attempt at settling Australia’s north coast. ‘an absorbing and detailed narrative’
ISBN-13: 9780648142119 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
Price:
AUD $29.95
Stock: 57 in stock
Local release date: 23/07/2020
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]History: specific events & topics [HBT]

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Port Essington
The British in North Australia 1838-49
History of the British settlement of Victoria in Port Essington, from 1838-1849.
ISBN-13: 9780648142171 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
Price:
AUD $39.95
Stock: 8 in stock
Local release date: 15/10/2020
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Tambora
Travels to Sumbawa and the mountain that changed the world
In the best tradition of Paul Theroux and J. Maarten Troost, comes Derek Pugh's torrid tale of Sumbawa, and his ascent of the iconic volcano Mt. Tambora, whose 1815 eruption did indeed change the world. Pugh's account of the eruption and its aftermath is masterfully done - clearly the product of much dogged research through archives, scientific ......
ISBN-13: 9780992355845 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
Price:
AUD $24.99
Stock: 20 in stock
Local release date: 30/01/2015
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Categories: Travel writing [WTL]

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Tammy Damulkurra
"a landmark in Australian literature" Maurice Rioli, MLA Fifteen year old Tammy Damulkurra lives in Maningrida - a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. Tammy has friends and likes the disco and thinks at last she has her first boyfriend but he cheats on her and Tammy gets into a fight with her arch enemy, Sharon. Tammy's parents send her ......
ISBN-13: 9780992355838 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Author: Pugh, Derek
Price:
AUD $12.99
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 01/12/2013
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Categories: Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories [YF]