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  • Van Diemen's Women

    A History of Transportation to Tasmania

    par Joan Kavanagh, Dianne Snowden ...
    On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted ... En savoir plus

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  • Ghost Platoon

    The critically acclaimed Vietnam War bestseller

    par Frank Walker ...
    Collections series Hachette Military Collection
    'thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' - The Sun HeraldAn eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn't even have an officer or sergeant in charge. A rugged ex-Royal Marine stepped forward to take the lead. Jim Riddle was only an acting ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $8.99 CAD

  • The Book of Secrets

    par Fiona Kidman ...
    A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu.In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, Norman McLeod. The community had followed him from Scotland in 1817 to found a settlement in Nova Scotia, then subsequently to New Zealand via ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Immortal Irishman

    The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

    par Timothy Egan ...
    In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Walking with the ANZACS

    The authoritative guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front

    par Mat McLachlan ...
    '[Mat McLachlan's] knowledge of the front is comprehensive' - Sydney Morning HeraldA complete guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18.Walking with the ANZACs aims to become the new essential companion for Australians visiting the Western Front. Each of the 14 most important Australian battlefields is covered with descriptions of the battles and Australia’s involvement in ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Kerry Girls

    Emigration and the Earl Grey Scheme

    par Kay Moloney Caball ...
    As part of the controversial Earl Grey Scheme, this is the true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry workhouses of Dingle, Kenmare, Killarney and Listowel in 1849 and 1850.Leaving behind scenes of destitution and misery, the girls, some of whom spoke only Irish, set off to the other side of the world without any idea of what lay ahead. This book tells of their ... En savoir plus

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  • The Wreck of the Neva: The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Women Aboard

    par Cal McCarthy, Kevin Todd ...
    The 'Neva' sailed from Cork on 8 January 1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On 13 May 1835 the ship hit a reef just north of King's Island in Australia and sank with the loss of 224 lives - one of the worst shipwrecks in maritime history. The authors have ... En savoir plus

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  • Australian Tragic

    Gripping tales from the dark side of our history

    par Jack Marx ...
    A compelling collection of tales from Australia's dark heart - of catastrophe and misfortune, intrigue and passion, betrayal and tragedy.AUSTRALIAN TRAGIC ranges across our past and our present: the heartbreaking story of the fire at Luna Park; the unstoppable opportunist who snatched innocent men and women from Palm Island to be part of P. T. Barnum's 'Greatest Show on Earth'; a world-class boxer ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Where the White Man Treads - Across the Pathway of the Maori

    par W. B. Otorohanga ...
    Originally published in 1928, this book is a comprehensive study of the Maori people and their inner lives, customs and beliefs, written by one who lived amongst them during a time before modern western civilisation had much altered their existence. This book is a fascinating read, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in other cultures and societies. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Savage Shore

    Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery

    par Graham Seal ...
    For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three hundred Europeans who ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • John King: Ireland's Forgotten Explorer - Australia's First Hero

    par Eric Villiers ...
    In 1861 an Irish-born explorer emerged from the Australian outback, sole survivor of the country's greatest expedition. John King from Moy, Co. Tyrone, had crossed the arid continent and discovered tracts of rich, fertile land. With eight men dead, King's triumph was one of the world's great feats of endurance and thousands gathered to crown him Australia's first hero ...Yet within weeks the ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The New Zealand Wars 1820–72

    par Ian Knight ...
    Collections Livre 487 - Men-at-Arms
    Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers.The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the North-West Frontier of India. Warfare had been endemic in pre-colonial New Zealand and Maori groups ... En savoir plus

    $12.19 CAD