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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

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The ABC Cricket Book: The First 60 Years is an engrossing collection of original writings, photos and advertisements culled from fifty-two editions of Australia's longest-running cricket publication, the ABC Cricket Book.Sir Charles Moses, expanding on the synthetic broadcasts of the 1930's created the first cricket publication, a guide to the broadcasts, in 1934. Moses' initiative was sustained by the memorable voices of Australian cricket, Johnnie Moyes and Alan McGilvray, who also became editors of the publication in the years that followed.As a guide to each up-coming season, the ABC Cricket Book has philosophically reflected the aspirations of each generation. This compilation has been enriched by contributions from the game's brilliant players: Bradman, Benaud, Grimmett, O'Reilly and the Chappells, Ian and Greg, are highlights in a team of legendary personalities who… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Accomplice describes one of the most shocking events of the seventeenth century: the wreck of a Dutch ship, the Batavia, off the west coast of Australia, and the extraordinary events that befell its stranded survivors. It is also the story of Judith Bastiaansz, sailing with her family to a new life, who is caught up in something well beyond her experience: first infatuation, and then, perhaps, something far more dangerous. Combining a gripping narrative with vivid historical detail, The Accomplice is a beautiful, terrifying, deeply moving novel of love and anarchy.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is an illustrated notebook on the life of Australians in the Middle Eastern theatre of war. Almost all of the contents are the work of men on active service. Reports are included on most of the actions in which Australian forces have so far taken part. It has been possible to include in these reports much detail which has not hitherto been available to the public. Similarly among the photographs, there are some which have already been published and many which now emerge from military and other official sources for the first time. They have been selected primarily for their value as graphic records of fact. It is hoped that the result, in text and photography, may be a more intimate if still fragmentary understanding of the campaigns. The balance and perspective of true history cannot yet be brought to bear on events.The contributions published are necessarily a very small… Read More

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Marie-Charlotte Jubert, a widow in the remote French seaside village of Louisbourg, is horrified to see the schooner Donna Rae put into port. The schooner, in which Marie is a secret investor, has been seized for smuggling, putting Marie's business ventures and her ability to support her two children at risk.On board the ship is Matthew Carter, an English Protestant, who is taken to the Fortress Louisbourg as a prisoner. Marie gets close to Matthew, hoping to discover whether or not he knows her secret and will turn her in. In the process, the two are drawn to one another and Marie is torn when her feelings for this stranger conflict with her desire to keep her children out of jeopardy.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Amazir: The Berber word for 'a man of independent spirit'.An idealistic young Englishman, Harry Summerfield, befriends an American oil explorer in Gibraltar in the 1930's. Their meeting sparks a journey for both men which will take them across Morocco and northern Africa, to encounter the harsh realities of Berber opposition to French colonial rule and the passion of a love for the same young French woman. From the mysterious alleyways of Marrakech to the beautiful solitude of the Atlas Mountains, Amazir paints an unforgettable portrait of a country, a time of war, and a clash of passion.

In good condition - has markings from use - has yellowing spots around rim of dust jacket - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The epic story of two of the world's most famous lovers - and the forces of politics, intrigue and ambition that shaped them - told as only Collen McCullough can.Brutus and Cassius are dead at Philippi, leaving two Roman men to inherit the world. One is the twenty-year-old Octavian, whose brilliance, subtlety and political cunning give the lie to his small, sickly appearance. The other is Mark Antony, a man in his prime - lusty, Herculean, hedonistic, proven on the battlefields of war, politics and love. At first glance, it seems no contest: Antony is the certain winner.But in Alexandria sits Egypt's queen, Cleopatra, mourning the death of Julius Caesar, yet utterly focused on attaining world power for her only son, Caesarion. In order to achieve this, she must seduce and hold in thrall either Octavian or Antony. Her choice is Antony, whom… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A book highlighting the armour through the years

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The year is 1311. In the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows castle, a beautiful woman watches as enemies gather below. As she calmly awaits her fate, she begins to write the secret history of the Okumichi clan, of the gift of prophecy they share and the destiny that awaits them.Six centuries later these remarkable writings are discovered by an American missionary, Emily Gibson, who has fled to Japan to escape a tragic past. Soon an extraordinary man will enter her life: Lord Genji of the Okumichi clan, a nobleman with a gift of prophecy who must defend his embattled family - and confront forbidden feelings for an outsider in his midst.Courted by two Western diplomats, Emily discovers that her heart belongs to the one man she cannot have. But she has found a mission of her own in translating Genji's ancestral history, and she loses herself in an epic tale of heroism and… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'They start out confident enough. They lose their puff, fall into ravines, double back, drop their compasses, go bush mad, and that has been the way since the colony was framed, when a line was drawn, and everyone stayed inside it. In the main, they still do. It is such a vast ocean of land they cannot imagine it, and when they do try, do not get far.'In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, gaolers, convicts and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, none ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. Those who tried came back saying it could not be done, or did not come back at all.Or so it was believed until the brazen escape of Desmond Kale after the final vengeance of his rival, the wildly eccentric 'flogging parson' magistrate Matthew Stanton: 'Kale marched a vicious mile, changed shape over a ridgeline and was gone. His face… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A battle is an awe-inspiring and a terrible event, no matter whether it be fought with sword, lance, pike and cross-bow; musket, sabre and cannon; or machine-gun, high velocity shells and tanks and aircraft. In battle a large number of men fight each other to the death; many are killed, many wounded. War is ugly, battle is brutal.Yet there is another side to it, which does not alter the main fact that war and battle are horrible. In battle men willingly risk death or mutilation for what they believe to be right. One would not say that every soldier who has fought in battle went voluntarily, or even understood what he was fighting for. Yet there are always some, often many, who fight and kill for what they believe to be a just cause. Ordinary men become inspired to unexpected heights of courage and become selfless. Many a man has fought willingly, and died without complaining, because… Read More

This book has an inscription dated April 28th 1879 to Miss Snell. In good condition, has markings due to age.The advice for how to treat your Husband from the middle to late 19th century.

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off Southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold.

In good condition - ex library - has some markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An engaging historical tale from a much-loved author - London, 1890. Singer Rose Paton is confident that, with her looks, youth, and talent, she's destined for greater things. When mysterious stranger Marcus Bennley asks her to sing at his sister's birthday party, as his present to her, she accepts for the half a guinea – more than two weeks' wages. But will the deal be quite so sweet as promised, or has Rose made a terrible mistake entangling herself with the Bennleys?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Amy longs to meet the father who had left home before she was born but when Amos Dodd appears on the doorstep, one wet afternoon, her dreams are shattered. He is not the rich adventurer she had expected, but a sadistic killer recently released from Armley jail. When her mother dies, Amy knows that if she is to survive, she must escape her father's clutches.Walking the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, she encounters a bargee and his wife and travels with them to Saltaire. Here she meets a young engineer from the mill and makes a shocking discovery. Determined to uncover the bitter truth about the man she hates and unravel the mystery surrounding her birth, Amy returns to Leeds. But by doing so she steps straight back into the lion's den.The Black Thread is a dramatic tale set on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1898.

Quality Book Club Edition - in very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is a true story of the sea, possibly unique in the annals of steam-shipping. It is a story of superb courage and endurance, savage discipline, hardship and danger; of brutal foul-mouthed men, rising to heights of heroism and selflessness under appalling conditions.A bug-infested, fever-ridden ship, adrift in mid Atlantic, faces the full fury of a winter's gale. Dead, dying, and sick, lying in bunks - or even where they fell - with no one able to distinguish them and no one with sufficient strength to lift a dead body and cast it into the sea. The heroic rescue performed in stormy , wintry seas, by men in an open boat from U.S.S. Sherman, another American ship, Antigone, and by a letter from the Admiralty describing the part played by H.M.S. Discoverer. All these documents are included in the story.

In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Sergeant Mark Bayley was a flying ace before he was shot down over German lines in 1918. As he falls in love with German nurse Karolina, things look perfect - even for his motherless son John, whom Karolina adopts.As long as Karolina lives there is harmony, but after her death, their son Max finds himself seduced by the German Fatherland. The brothers will fight on opposite sides of the coming war...

In good condition - has few markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Caesar's Women is the story of Gaius Julius Caesar's rise to prominence in his world, beginning with his return to Rome in 68 B.C. prepared to dominate a new battlefield - the Roman Forum. The wars he fights within it are waged with words, plots, schemes, metaphorical assassination. Today's ally may be tomorrow's foe; everything shifts and changes within this political arena. But Caesar sets out to prove that he is the master of this battlefield too, one he shares with other men whose names have lasted down the centuries, names like Cicero and Pompey the Great.Caesar's victories are not limited to the Forum, however. Penned inside Rome for these memorable ten years, he also conquers Rome's noblewomen. Among his victims is the powerful and vindictive Servilia, mother of a youth called Brutus; their passoniate, enduring and destructive affair is a major influence in the shaping of… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An evil wind blows through the air of Bass Strait, promising the birth of a charismatic child.On the far northwest coast of Tasmania at Cape Grimm lies the isolated community of Skye, which practises a religion that reveres the imagination.When Caleb Mean is born, his grandmother has a vision telling her he is the Chosen One.On Caleb's thirty-third birthday, he locks the whole community into the meeting hall and incinerates them.The only survivors are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter, Golden.How could such a thing happen? Do the answers lie in the history of Skye itself, founded by the unlikely survivors of a nineteenth-century shipwreck? Or do the only real clues lie in the dark truths of fairytales?

Large Print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.London, 1875: At Lady Cornford's soiree, only a few people know that the enigmatic Bella Wallis is, in fact, the bestselling novelist Henry Ellis Margam, Bella's male pseudonym. Armed with her pen, the handsome Miss Wallis exposes the scoundrels that litter high society.