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  • Barossa Journeys
    Noris Ioannou
    Barossa Journeys: Into a valley of tradition creates a sensory experience where the flavours of wine and food intermingle with the celebrations of festivals and music. Favourite places and enchanting, out-of-the-way sites are revealed. Explore places as evocative as the long-lost village of Hoffnungsthal, and the strange cave home of the eccentric explorer Menge. Wander through...
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    35,70 €

  • The Worst Country in the World
    Patsy Trench
    “Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, 'The Worst Country in the World' is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the ’luckiest’ countries in the world.” Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine.In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow an...
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    14,92 €

  • Suburban Bravery
    Andrew R Duckworth
    In suburban Western Australia at the turn of last century, the threat of fire was both menacing and real. Lives and public infrastructure were destroyed. The need for fire brigades both in Western Australia and across the globe had never been greater.Join the men of the North Perth Fire Brigade as they form their fledgling brigade of 20 men and grow into a respected institution...
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    34,78 €

  • Scapegoats of the Empire
    George Witton
    According to persistent rumours, the Australian government suppressed the book because its untold story of a slice of colonial history was an embarrassment to the British Empire.  Opens a window on the Boer War, politics of the empire, and the life of enlisted soldiers of the time. George Witton’s Scapegoats of the Empire was published in 1907; however, only seven copies of th...
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    23,91 €

  • The Raffle Gods
    Dan Holliday
    When Beastly nearly kills a friend, he knows it is time to take a rest from his job, as a Kings Cross night club bouncer, and get out of town for a while. Travel with Beastly as he heads out bush to find his sense of self again. In a sense, a 'coming of age' story, with a difference, set in Australia in the 70s or 80s, you will find yourself drawn in from the first page...
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    20,12 €

  • Dalton's Gold
    Peter D Matthews
    Renowned historian, philosopher and author, Dr Peter Matthews, has illuminated the events of the Eureka Stockade like never before. This book is the culmination of three years research after his Grandfather, Francis Dalton, shared this amazing story just before he passed away in 1995. John Thomas Dalton was swindled out of the find of the century by the very forces sent to pro...
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    23,70 €

  • One Hundred Years of Women Police in Australia
    Tim Prenzler
    In 2015 Australia celebrates the centenary of the country’s first appointment of women police. This fascinating book presents for the first time the story of 100 years of Australian women police. A vital contribution to Australian history as well as modern policing and policy, the book concludes with a simple recipe for eliminating discrimination and optimising the contributio...
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    45,38 €

  • James Wallace
    Peter L Newman / Peter Newman
    Most Australians think they know the full Kelly story. James Wallace: The Kelly Gang Sympathiser is about a man who was complicit in keeping the Kelly gang at large for two years, but who has somehow been largely forgotten in the annals of Australian history.James Wallace was a respectable schoolteacher and lifelong friend of gang member Joe Byrne. Working away behind the scene...
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    24,08 €

  • Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas
    Gary Warren Wood
    This book is about adventure motorcycle riding, middle age, and chicken racing, but most of all it’s about adventure and what it means to be an adventurer. On this journey, I learn to ride an adventure motorcycle in some of Queensland’s most challenging terrain. I developed a sense of self reliance and found solitude wild camping in remote areas. This book is the beginning of m...
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    37,53 €

  • An Indigenous South
    From its earliest years, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies. As they contributed to the founding and consolidation of a British colony, Germans observed the processes of dispossession and subjugation that changed the lives of First Nations peoples around them forever. More than that, they participated in those profound and tragic changes. Importantly...
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    44,93 €

  • On Worlds End Highway
    Nancy Jackson
    Two immigrants from two countries who live at the Point Pass Butter Factory 140 years apart.On Worlds End Highway is the true story of an immigrant from Prussia who becomes the matriarch of a family that runs a successful business for seventy-five years. And a contemporary immigrant from America who renovates for the future and discovers a remarkable history.Colonial South Aust...
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    26,30 €

  • Every Requisite for a Campaign Upon the Gold-fields
    Michael Williams
    Of the many episodes that make up the oftentimes exotic impression of Chinese Australian history the 1850s walk from the small port of Robe in South Australia to the goldfields of Victoria has repeatedly taken on epic proportions. Its ’long march’ like length, tales of hardship and death, not to mention present-day outrage at the discriminatory tax the walk was designed to avoi...
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    12,51 €

  • Islamic State in Australia
    Rodger Shanahan
    This book fills a gap in our knowledge about the activities of Western supporters and members of Islamic State by examining the experience of their Australian cohort. ...
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    73,55 €

  • Half a Hero (Esprios Classics)
    Anthony Hope
    Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 - 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, 'minor classics' of English literature, are set in the co...
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    24,44 €

  • The Great New Zealand Lockdown
    Kimberly Stewart
    On the 28th of February 2020, New Zealand has its first confirmed case of Covid-19. By the 26th of March, the country had gone into one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. As other countries tried to keep their economies going alongside trying to quell the deadly virus, the economy in New Zealand completely shut down as five-million New Zealanders were told to stay at hom...
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    15,55 €

  • Kiwi Birds Coloring Book
    PaperLand
    Kiwi Birds Coloring Book, Adult Crafts Hobbies Books, Floral Mandala Pages, Stress Relief Rowi Zentangle Picture, Freestyle Drawing PageIt was made for Kiwi Birds lovers or someone who likes to relax while coloring.Kiwi Birds in zentangle pattern style with heartwarming quotes.It makes the perfect gift for your friends who are Kiwi Birds lovers.This book has a total of 42 pages...
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    19,02 €

  • 41 South
    Robert Bettelheim / Robert J Bettelheim
    High above Wellington, New Zealand, a sentient radar station continues to sweep the skies long after the collapse of civilisation. Ricky, Stack, Tubs and Zoz play up at the old station, imagining a world of aircraft and faraway places - better places. For Stack, Tubs and Zoz it’s just a cool escape from the relentless desperation of life in the remaining communities of Wellingt...
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    18,31 €

  • Travels in Western Australia being a description of the various cities and towns, goldfields, and agricultural districts of that state
    May Vivienne
    Travels in Western Australia being a description of the various cities and towns, goldfields, and agricultural districts of that state, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and futur...
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    19,82 €

  • State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples
    Francesca Dominello
    This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples. ...
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    240,99 €

  • Catherine’s Story
    Gail Barnes
    This nineteenth century social history is written by Gail Barnes, the great, great granddaughter of Catherine McKinnon. Catherine McKinnon’s life began on the crofting settlement of Kendram, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. However, due to the compounding effects of the Highland Clearances and the famine of 1837, there was no future for her in Scotland. So, when Catherine was...
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    17,99 €

  • Her Time Ann Jarmy
    Lisa Apfel
    Norwich was the breeding ground for revolutionary ideas that led to American and French independence, but it was also the breeding ground of criminals who were part of the new colony in New South Wales. Beginning with four convicts on the First Fleet, the Norwich convicts continued with the Second and Third Fleets. Ann was part of this third shipment. The entwining characters t...
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    17,35 €

  • Her Time, Caroline Field
    Lisa Apfel
    Raised amongst the criminals and fighters of Birmingham her path was set. Transported to New South Wales and sent out past the 'limits of location' to Wiradyuri country. It was a place where settlers were forbidden to go, a place dominated by male convicts and a few military personnel. The book follows her from her convict years in the frontier and unearths her lost story. Her ...
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    16,44 €

  • Her Time, Bridget Fox
    Lisa Apfel
    Chosen as worthy, Bridget was selected from the other young girls at the Waterford workhouse for a free passage to Australia. A victim of the great hunger that had gripped Ireland, it was her chance out of poverty. The story takes the reader to Sydney on the cusp of the gold rush and follows Bridget through one tragedy after another until the outbreak of WWI.The book delves int...
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    19,20 €

  • CAPE YORK THE SAVAGE FRONTIER
    RODNEY LIDDELL
    When aborigines murdered a sailor from the Dutch ship Duyfken on the west coast of Cape York in 1606, it was the beginning of Australia’s ’Race War’!Within weeks, another 9 Duyfken sailors were murdered by aborigines near Cape Keerweer. This was Australia’s first recorded massacre.The contents of this book portray history as it really happened, rather than the many fictionalise...
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    35,64 €

  • Wireless Priest
    Matthew Ryan
    Around 1910 a forward thinking Catholic priest, Archibald Shaw, was experimenting with spark-gap wireless about a decade before broadcast radio took-off. He founded an engineering factory in the Sydney suburb of Randwick. Shaw was a missionary priest and his intention was to use the wireless sets he manufactured to keep in touch with distant missionaries throughout New Guinea a...
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    24,52 €

  • The Great Blue World
    V T SREEKUMAR
    The Great Blue World: Understanding Our Oceans and Their Hidden Wonders takes readers on an enthralling journey beneath the waves, exploring the vast and mysterious depths of the world’s oceans. Covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, the oceans are essential to the health of our planet, yet they remain one of the least understood frontiers.This comprehensive guide delve...
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    40,28 €

  • Fallen Now Forgotten
    Patricia Kennedy
    Fallen Now Forgotten tells the story of the soldiers who do not have any living descendants to remember their sacrifices during World War 1. Each Anzac Day no one wears their medals or carries a photo of them, over a hundred years later they are just a name on a memorial with no family to mourn them.This book offers just a small selection of these forgotten soldiers as research...
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    20,76 €

  • The Travels ’n Travails of Paddy Egan
    Paul W. Mathews
    Historical or ancestral research can involve putting flesh on ancient bones of some quirky characters, providing insights into how late colonialists lived through good and hard times of NSW. Take, for example, Anthony Egan and his wife, Ann Ryan, who were originally from the Bathurst/Orange region beginning in 1855, then later moved on to Dubbo and Narromine. Their first son, G...
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    14,88 €

  • Australian Women’s Historical Photography
    Anne Maxwell / Lucy Van
    Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views focuses on the works of six Australian women who were working as photographers in the period 1850-1950. It critically examines their works against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards Indigenous Australians, the First Women’s Movement, the Great War of 1914-1918, Australia’s imperial occupation o...
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    35,92 €

  • Joseph Byrne
    Georgina Phelan
    Joseph Byrne was born in Victoria at the height of the Victorian gold rush and his short and turbulent life would see him become one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of Australia. A talented wordsmith, expert horseman and ruthlessly pragmatic, Byrne would be remembered as Ned Kelly’s right-hand man. Through meticulous research Georgina Phelan brings Byrne out of Ned...
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    39,93 €