Australian / Australian History from leura books

Jervis Sparks, Australia, 1992. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Inscribed by Author. Fold-out family tree. endpaper maps. 202 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Australian::Australian History. Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0646070320. ISBN/EAN: 9780646070322. Inventory No: 269229.. 9780646070322

DNG Publishers, 1995. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Explores the lives of a Scottish lad and a colonial girl. Andrew arrived in the South Coast town of Berry in 1884 from Scotland and met Victoria Reid. Their story is interwoven with the people and history of both Manly and Berry. 292 pages. Light foxing to outer… Read more about this item

ABC Books, Australia, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation. The story of the Clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they bought to the Australian colony of the nineteenth century, is one of the world's great migration stories. For anyone… Read more about this item

The Runciman Press, Australia, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. This is a Pictorial History of “Abercrombie House” at Bathurst. The mansion was formerly known as “The Mount”, “Mount Pleasant”, “Stewart’s Mount”, or “Stewart’s Castle”. It is a four storey, forty-roomed, granite mansion rising from a hill in the middle of farming paddocks just west… Read more about this item

NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, NSW, 2022. Softcover. Very Good Condition. A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasion.… Read more about this item

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2020. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Graham Seal is one of Australia's master storytellers. This bumper collection of yarns from the bush gathers some of our best stories since colonial times, retold in Graham's warm style. It takes a certain character to make a living in the Australian bush. In the most… Read more about this item

Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Robynne Allen. The most famous work by the Australian novelist and poet, For the Term of His Natural Life is a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper. 378 pages. Foxing to outer page edges.… Read more about this item

Jack Loney, Australia. Softcover. Good Condition. 127 pages. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Maritime; History; Australian::Australian History. ISBN: 0868951048. ISBN/EAN: 9780868951041. Inventory No: 269069.. 9780868951041

New Holland, Australia, 2000. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Guide to Australias most notorious bushrangers Australians have always had a soft spot for the daring bushrangers of last century with their contempt for organised authority. In fact, Ned Kelly is still considered almost a hero by some. Bill Scott looks at the most notorious of Australia's… Read more about this item

Private Publication, Australia. Softcover. Good Condition. 426 pages. Light foxing to covers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Genealogy; Genealogy & Local History; Australian::Australian History. Inventory No: 268977..

Black inc, Australia, 2016. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True Girt In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm… Read more about this item

Canterbury and District Historical Society, Australia, 2001. Softcover. Very Good Condition. So little is known locally about the US Army Hospital at Herne Bay [now Riverwood] during World War II, that it was confidently believed - and has been accepted ever since - that the hospital was built in the wrong place; that, by some… Read more about this item

The Five Mile Press, Australia, 2002. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Includes a complete transcript of Ned Kelly's 'Jerilderie Letter'. From Ned Kelly through to Ben Hall, this book describes the early days of the Colonies and the crime committed in these colonies. Fantastic pictures compliment this great piece of Australian history. With more than 200… Read more about this item

University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 1991. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Governor King granted some of this land to Mary Putland, Captain William Bligh's daughter, under the name of Frogmore. Governor Macquarie gave her a further parcel of land, under the name of Coallee in 1810. This booklet recounts these lands' subsequent history. 62 pages.… Read more about this item

George Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. A definitive picture of life on twenty pastoral properties, authorative accounts of the workings of the stations and full colour photographs. Cut on middle of front blank endpaper and inside cover. 240 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian History; Genealogy… Read more about this item

D & L Book Distributors, Australia, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Signed by Author. Collenette has created an intelligent, well-told, and sometimes poetic history of Tasmania. His love for the place is palpable. From the Preface: "A pebble cast near the shore of the Southern Ocean, Tasmania seems to drop off the map of… Read more about this item

Hale & Iremonger, Australia, 1992. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The whole of Balmain, near Sydney, Australia, was once sold for five shillings; in the early days kangaroo hunts ended at Long Nose Point at Birchgrove; in the middle of modern Glebe is a Chinese joss house; and Annandale was the estate of First Fleet Mariner… Read more about this item

Kangaroo Press, Australia, 1983. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Diana Klima and Harrison Fisher. This is the story of Bud Brown, born in Glen Innes, in the New England District of New South Wales, Australia. Miss Brown realised a lifelong dream when she opened a coffee shop in Sydney... which was an instant success. Anyone who… Read more about this item

The Fairfax Library, New South Wales. Australia, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Covering the years 1900 to 1939, the photographs in this book come from the archives of the John Fairfax newspaper organisation and the State Library of New South Wales. The photographers include: Herbert Fishwick, George Bell, Frank Hurley, Sam Hood. Text… Read more about this item

ABC Books, Sydney, NSW, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrated history of Australian involvement in the major conflicts of the 20th century. Companion volume to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV documentary series of the same name. Extends its focus beyond military matters to show how war can affect the lives of those… Read more about this item