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Twenty to the Mile: The Overland Telegraph Line
The greatest engineering feat of 19th century Australia
The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph. This is a history of the Overland Telegragh Line from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, written for its 150th anniversary.
ISBN-13: 9780648142195 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh
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AUD $39.95
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 15/12/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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Turn Left at the Devil Tree
Accompanied by Turkey, his little 'hunting' dog, Derek Pugh founded several outstation schools in the most remote parts of Arnhem Land and gained a rare insight into a traditional way of life which has been witnessed by only a few outsiders. By turns reflective, tragic and hilarious, Turn Left at the Devil Tree is a memoir of a visiting teacher ......
ISBN-13: 9780992355807 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh
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AUD $24.99
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Local release date: 01/12/2013
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Categories: Memoirs [BM]

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TRACY - 50 Years, 50 Stories
Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a swathe of destruction across the entire town. Few buildings escaped. Sixty-six people died, many of them on vessels which ......
ISBN-13: 9780645737417 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh, Richard Creswick
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AUD $35.00
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Local release date: 01/04/2024
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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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
Derek Pugh
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AUD $39.95
Stock: 11 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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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
Derek Pugh
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AUD $29.95
Stock: 12 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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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
Derek Pugh
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 13 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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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
Derek Pugh
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 3 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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Darwin: Survival of a City, The 1890s
A history of Palmerston (Darwin) through the last decade of the 1890s. While the major industries had all hit the doldrums, the resiliant population struggled on. This is the story of extraordinary people in an extraodinary time.
ISBN-13: 9780645737400 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh
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AUD $39.99
Stock: 19 in stock
Local release date: 16/05/2023
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Categories: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Darwin: Growth of a City. The 1880s.
A history of Darwin's second decade, the 1880s. It was a boom decade of railways construction, gold rush, sugar plantations, pastoralism, massacres, murders and mayhem.
ISBN-13: 9780648142188 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh
Price:
AUD $34.95
Stock: 23 in stock
Local release date: 18/05/2021
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]