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  • Te Araroa The New Zealand Trail

    One Man Walks His Dream

    by Geoff Chapple ...
    A travel book of vivid encounters with the New Zealand's people and landscape along its famous long trail. When journalist Geoff Chapple wrote a newspaper article that set out a vision for a 2600-km hiking trail the length of New Zealand, he never imagined that he would become the trail blazer. Over five years he talked to farmers and landowners, seeing where the route might be possible. He then ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Terrain

    by Geoff Chapple ...
    New Zealand’s many distinctive landforms are packed into a small space. Geoff Chapple, author of Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail, set out on a year-long journey to find out why, and to seek out the shifting forces that shape them. For company, he chose to walk with geologists and the artisans who work the rock. The journey took him back through geology’s global history and onward from end to end ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • BWB Texts: Turning Points

    by Geoff Chapple, Claudia Orange, Anne Salmond, Dick Scott ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Award-winning writers Geoff Chapple, Claudia Orange, Anne Salmond and Dick Scott explore pivotal moments in New Zealand’s history in this bundle of BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. In When the Tour Came to Auckland Geoff Chapple describes the startling scenes as the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • When the Tour Came to Auckland

    by Geoff Chapple ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    ‘At 2.40pm Patu charged. A human tank. The first time during the tour that a protest squad charged police lines with the intention of breaking through ...’The Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981 provoked the biggest mass protests in New Zealand history. For two months tens of thousands of New Zealanders took to the streets every week to register their opposition to the tour.In When the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Series series Vintage International
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  • Australia's Great Explorers: Tales of tragedy and triumph

    by Denis Gregory ...
    The often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to, and it proved a daunting obstacle to settlement. However, a few brave and at times foolhardy men were determined to prove themselves equal to the challenge. AUSTRALIA'S GREAT EXPLORERS looks at the tragedies and triumphs of men such as Wentworth and Lawson, Hume and Hovell, Burke and ... Read more

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  • An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942

    The bombing of Darwin, February 1942

    by Peter Grose ...
    The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942. Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl Harbor only ten ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is an American classic of race, culture and education at the turn of the twentieth century. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in a magazine called, Atlantic Monthly.This book comprises fourteen essays written between 1897 and 1903 that range across social, political and economic history, religion ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • The Jerilderie Letter

    by Ned Kelly ...
    Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854 – 1880) was an Australian bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he murdered three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his ... Read more

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  • The Baby Farmers

    A chilling tale of missing babies, shameful secrets and murder in 19th century Australia

    by Annie Cossins ...
    The most common murder victim in 19th century Australia was a baby, and the most common perpetrator was a woman. Annie Cossins pieces together the fascinating story of the most infamous legal trial in Australia to reveal an underworld of struggling mothers, unwanted babies, and a society that preferred to turn a blind eye.'The book's power stems from its devastating details; Cossins establishes a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black and Proud

    The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo

    by Matthew Klugman, Gary Osmond ...
    On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, "I'm black and I'm proud to be black." The moment was immortalized by photographers Wayne Ludbey and John Feder and forced Australian football and its fans ... Read more

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  • Muslim Girl

    A Coming of Age

    by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh ...
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