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1901 Our Future's Past

1901 Our Future's Past: Documenting Australia's Federation

by Raymond Evans, Clive Moore, Kay Saunders and Bryan Jamison

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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.1901 was the year of Australia's Federation, a year that marked the birth of a new nation. For white Australians it was a time of optimism and patriotism, of certainities of race, culture and identity. Australia's destiny seemed clear - as an outpost of anglo-celtic civilisation amidst the brown and yellow hordes of Asia.Yet beneath the celebrations that heralded Federation lay darker under-currents of bitter industrial unrest, racial fear and political divisiveness. Almost 100 years on, we can see that the hopes and fears, beliefs and prejudices that dominated Australia at the turn of the century were forces that would continue to shape our own present and future.As the centenary of Federation draws closer, 1901 - Our Future's Past was commissioned by the National Australia Day Council. The four authors, based in the History Department of the University of Queensland, have combined their… Read More
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The A to Z Genealogical Handbook

The A to Z Genealogical Handbook

by Janet Reakes

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In good condition - has markings from previous owners - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The A to Z Genealogical Handbook is a comprehensive handbook for the family researcher. Liberally illustrated with charts and copies of documents, it provides an exhaustive survey of how to research your Australian forebears and provides guidance on tracing ancestors from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. It details what records are available, where they can be found and how they can be used, and explains how to organise files, how to write the family story, how to interview relatives. It even suggests the best stationery to use for your records and where to obtain it. Both for the beginner and the more advance family researcher, it is an indispensable reference source.
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Clans and Tartans

Clans and Tartans: The Fabric of Scotland

by Lorna Blackie

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In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Scottish clans and the tartans which are their symbol both grew out of the Celtic past and flourished in the late Middle Ages. Decimated first by inter-clan warfare, then by the brutal repression of the English and finally by the Highland Clearances, the clans have nevertheless survived. The clans still provide a real sense of identity for their members and their tartans have become very fashionable. This fascinating account traces their stories right up to the present day and lavish illustrations show the wonderful variety of the tartans.
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The Clans and Tartans of Scotland

The Clans and Tartans of Scotland

by Robert Bain

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In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This book by Robert Bain has proved to be one of the most popular and durable on the subject ever published.It presents the rich heritage of clan and family history, 133 clan and other tartans superbly reproduced in colour, clan badges and mottoes, a comprehensive list of clan and family names, glossaries of Gaelic place and personal names, articles on the clan system and Highland dress, and a list of sources of further information. Tartans illustrated include the one specially created for the American bicentennial celebrations.
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Dear Kathleen, Dear Manning

Dear Kathleen, Dear Manning: The Correspondence of Manning Clark and Kathleen Fitzpatrick 1949-1990

by Edited by Susan Davies

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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Manning Clark and Kathleen Fitzpatrick were influential Australian historians; they were both also gifted writers. Their personal letters, published for the first time in Dear Kathleen, Dear Manning, form a revealing moving collection.They trace the gradual development over forty years of an unlikely, but deep and sympathetic friendship - one which became more and more important to the writers as they moved into old age.Clark's left-wing politics contrasted with Fitzpatrick's staunch liberalism; her privileged background was very different from his more austere upbringing; her stately demeanour was at odds with his studied larrikinism. Manning Clark took to the public stage, while Kathleen Fitzpatrick remained resolutely private.Yet they struck a chord in each other, seeing themselves in some way as 'outsiders'. They were both extraordinarily sensitive and reserved people;… Read More
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Discovering Surnames

Discovering Surnames: Their origins and meanings

by J W Freeman

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Most people take their surnames very much for granted, and yet they are one of our most personal and interesting possessions. Your surname can tell you quite a lot about your ancestors. Were they red-headed, or bald, tempermental or jovial? What did they do for a living? Where did they live? What were their parents' names? Your surname can reveal information like this. Not all names are what they at first sight seem to be: if your name is Farmer, then an ancestor was a tax-collector; if it is Alabaster, then you are descended from a crossbowman. Strong in your convictions? Then perhaps your name is Firmin, or if the opposite is true maybe it is Shuttle. The original Knowles lived on a hill, the first Nash near an ash tree, and Stubbins by the cleared land. Your name may be of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, or Norman origin, and in this book Welsh, Scottish and Irish names each have a chapter… Read More
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The Doctor Wore Petticoats

The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West

by Chris Enss

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First Edition, Second Printing - In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."No Women Need Apply."These Four Discouraging Words of admonition often greeted female physicians looking for jobs in the frontier-era West. Despite the dire need for medical help, it seemed most trappers, miners, and emigrants would rather suffer and die than be treated by a female doctor. Nevertheless dozens of highly trained women headed West, where they endured hardship and prejudice as they set broken limbs, performed operations, delivered generations of babies - and solidified a place for women in the medical field.Susan La Flesche, the youngest daughter of an Omaha Indian Chief, felt called to medicine when at the age of twelve she saw a woman die because a government-paid doctor was too busy hunting prairie chickens to help. Destitute divorcee Bethenia Owens Adair traded in laundry work for a successful medical practice. Flora Hayward Stanford,… Read More
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Kings in Grass Castles

Kings in Grass Castles

by Mary Durack

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In good condition - has markings from use - has yellowing to end pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a profound sense of family history, his grand-daughter, Mary Durack, has reconstructed the Durack saga - a story of intrepid men and ground-breaking adventure.
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Louis Bromfield and his Books

Louis Bromfield and his Books

by Morrison Brown

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Back in 1914, at the age of eighteen, Louis Bromfield took control of his grandfather's farm in Ohio after a short spell of study in scientific agriculture. Eighteen months later, he left the land for the more attractive world of journalism. Twenty-four years had passed when, as a world-famous novelist, he returned to Ohio to begin the life of a farmer where he had left off. To his considerable public Bromfield, at the time of his death in March, 1956, was as famous for his farm at Malabar as for his best-selling novels.
Between The Green Bay Tree of 1924, his first novel to be published, and The Rains Came of 1938, he devoted his entire energies to the writing of novels and short stories, but in the spring of 1939 he left his home in France for the three farms he had bought in Ohio and turned his mind to the… Read More
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The Most Dangerous Animal of All

The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for my Father and Finding The Zodiac Killer

by Gary L. Stewart with Susan Mustafa

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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'My father wrapped me tightly in the dirty blue blanket and laid me there on the floor, making sure the pacifier was in my mouth so I would not cry before he was able to make his escape. He turned away, leaving me alone in the stairwell, clad only in a white towel that served as my diaper. Decades later, I would realise that the day my father abandoned me was the luckiest day of my life.'An explosive, revelatory memoir of a man who discovers that his father is one of the most infamous and still-wanted serial killers in America.Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world.Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most… Read More
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No Passport

No Passport: The Story of Jan Felix

by Madelaine Duke

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Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - dust jacket has slight wearing - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."This exciting fast-moving age of ours has produced many men, and women, as articulate as they are distinguished. In reading their autobiographies I often wondered what kind of a story would emerge if one enquired into the life of an ordinary member of an extraordinary organisation, such as Special Operations Executive.""During the last war many of Britain's little known intelligence agents were essentially cosmopolitans, men who felt at home in many countries and belonged to none. What were the circumstances that induced such international-minded people to take part in a war, and to serve one side rather than the other?""In my search for an answer to this question I met Jan Felix, who had served with Special Operations Executive. I found in him a man who had refused to become a mere pawn in the power-game of politicans, and who… Read More
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The Ordinary Doctor

The Ordinary Doctor

by Stuart Patterson

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In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A memoir of Stuart Patterson.
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Pathway to Progress

Pathway to Progress: 1860-1973

by W R Golding

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In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the preface of my previous book, "The Birth of Central Queensland," I hinted of my desire that at a later date I would continue with the task of recording events of note from where the first book finished, up till the time this book, "Pathway to Progress," went to press.After a great deal of reading through musty papers and seeking the advice of many only too willing to oblige, and without whose help this chronicle of events would never have been published, I present this history of events to readers for what it is worth, believing, as I do, that it is in the main, factual, at least as far as my research revealed.I acknowledge that there have been many happenings which I have not touched upon. To cover the events of the last 100 years would be a task out of the ordinary and the cost of publishing same would be astronomical.I make no apologies for giving this book's readers the… Read More
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The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead: The long-awaited sequel to The Past is Myself

by Christabel Bielenberg

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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Following the extraordinary success of her wartime memoirs, The Past is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg received thousands of letters from readers begging her to describe what happened next. The Road Ahead takes up the story at the moment the first volume left off - with the outbreak of peace.Germany was devastated by war and its aftermath, while Britain seemed grey and exhausted to Christabel. She was soon appointed the Observer's special correspondent in Germany, and, reunited with her husband Peter (technically an enemy alien), she joined the struggle for reconciliation with, and the rebuilding of, a defeated nation. It was Peter's near-fatal accident and her own illness which decided the young couple to turn their backs on England and Germany and make a new start farming in Ireland.Life was harsh at first, but predictably Christabel found humour in the accidents of poverty and the many… Read More
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The Ship-Busters

The Ship-Busters: The Story of the R-A-F Torpedo-Bombers

by Ralph Barker

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Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The low-level strike against enemy shipping by torpedo-carrying aircraft was perhaps the most dangerous and exhilarating form of air attack developed during the last war, and few isolated actions could have had such a direct impact on naval and military operations. This book sets out to tell the story of the R.A.F. torpedo-bombers and of the men who flew them, from the early 'rover' attacks by single Beauforts off the Dutch and Norwegian coasts to the massed assaults of later years by the rocket and torpedo-carrying aircraft of the famous 'strike-wings.'The full stories of many historic actions are included: the lone moonlight attack by a 22-year-old flight sergeant on the pocket-battleship Lützow; the torpedoing of the Gneisenau in harbour at Brest, which put the battle-cruiser out of action for eight months at a critical stage of the war and for which Flying… Read More
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The Siege

The Siege: A Story from Kohima

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Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In March, 1944, the Japanese launched 100,000 men across the river Chindwin as a first step towards their invasion of India. They made at once for the towns of Imphal, Kohima and Dimapur, all placed on the only all-weather road running through the boundless tracts of jungle-clad mountains between Burma and India. They surrounded Imphal and sent a further column to capture the great base at Dimapur. Between Imphal and Dimapur and astride the Japanese lines of communication lay the small township of Kohima, five thousand feet high in the wild mountains. The day before the Japanese ring closed round the town the 4th Battalion of the Royal West Kent regiment, five thousand citizen soldiers with few professionals among them, drove in under heavy shell-fire. For the next sixteen days they held off a complete division of Japanese totalling some fifteen thousand… Read More
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The Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad: Epic of Survival

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Purnell's History of the Second World War Battle Book No 5 - in good condition - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Leningrad and Stalingrad; however history will judge the Communist experiment, there is little doubt that the two cities which most deservedly symbolised defiance to Hitler and ultimately the defeat of Fascism, bore the names of the most famous (or infamous) Communist leaders. And as Lenin had preceded Stalin, so Leningrad's period of appalling tribulation came in the winter of 1941 - a year before the holocaust on the Volga.The first German shells landed in the city of Leningrad on 1st September 1941; the announcement of the lifting of the blockade was made on 27th January 1944, and the city was still ringed by the enemy for three weeks after that - so that siege lasted for nine hundred days. It was thus the longest siege of modern times, and it was also almost certainly the most violently conducted in history; for not only had modern industrialisation… Read More
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Walker R.N.

Walker R.N.: The Story of F.J. Walker

by Terence Robertson

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Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - dust jacket slightly worn on edges - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.According to the Admiralty statement, the Battle of the Atlantic, which raged for five and a half years, was "the most protracted and bitterly fought campaign in which the British Empire and her Allies have ever been engaged". That this battle was finally and triumphantly won was the direct result of the offensive tactics of the Navy's 'little ships', inspired by the brilliant exploits of one man who, the Admiralty stated, "did more to free the Atlantic of the U-Boat menace than any other single officer".Here is this man's story - the life and death of Captain Frederick John Walker, R.N., Companion of the Order of the Bath, and holder of the D.S.O. and three Bars. Working with the complete co-operation of Captain Walker's family and with full access to private papers and diaries, the author traces the career of this… Read More
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The Wild White Man of Badu

The Wild White Man of Badu: A Story of the Coral Sea

by Ion L. Idriess

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In good condition - has some markings on spine due to wear - no dust jacket - has previous owner's name and address in front cover - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.So, here at last is the story of Wongai, Wild White Man of Badu. It is the best I can do with the scanty scraps of material. But to delay longer would mean it would never be printed. Not that that would matter one iota, of course. However, the book may prove of passing interest to those interested in "flashes" from our Australian past. And to those interested in a tiny but colourful race of islanders, a race whose descendants today have reached the full climax of their ambition, to become "civilized" enough to even don uniforms in a "white man's war". But Time passes, like Wongai, like the islanders' culture of a thousand years, like history, like - everything.
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