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  • Australia's Most Notorious Convicts: From thieves and bushrangers to murderers and cannibals

    de Barbara Malpass Edwards ...
    Thousands of convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, some managed to escape incarceration and went on to achieve notoriety in their new land. A few tried to invent a Robin Hood reputation, taking the side of the poor settler against those in authority. Some committed crimes so heinous they were both feared and despised by the general population. Their lives were desperate, their fate ... Leer más

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  • Hamilton Hume

    Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography

    de Robert Macklin ...
    'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as well as providing a portrait of the evolving colony.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDThe stirring untold story ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Australia's Great Explorers: Tales of tragedy and triumph

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Outback Australia: True Stories - Vol. 1

    de Matt Flynn, Col Mellon, Gary Harper, Helen Larson, Jeremy Harmsworth, Morgan Hartney ...
    Encounters with crocodiles, tussles with criminals, losing ships in cyclones ... these marvellous stories were originally published in the North Australian Fishing and Outdoors Magazine.These are true stories told by law enforcers, fishermen, scientists, historians and others.This book was compiled by Matt Flynn, a former Northern Territory of Australia journalist who now publishes outdoors ... Leer más

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  • Memories of the Bush

    de Patricia Jones ...
    Patty spent the first thirty three years of her life living with her family on remote outback station properties - Old Bando, Minetta, Old Outstation - in south west Queensland, Australia. When her brother, Kerry developed a brain tumor, they moved to live in Charleville - a small outback town. Patty has an understanding of the land, and a great love of reading. Look beyond the words to a life ... Leer más

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  • From Cook to Convicts

    A Voyage of Adventure, Mayhem and Discovery

    de John Darkin ...
    Series series Little Red Books
    In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions: to observe the transit of Venus and to find and chart the mythical "Great Southern Land". He succeeded in both tasks, despite he and his crew facing great hardship and danger, to complete one of the great voyages of exploration. But ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Great Australian Stories

    Legends, yarns and tall tales

    de Graham Seal ...
    'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are ready to tell their stories.' - From the foreword by Warren FaheyAustralia has a rich tradition ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Closing Hell's Gates

    The death of a convict station

    de Hamish Maxwell-Stewart ...
    Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sentence) rather than endure the hardships and privations of the penal settlement on Sarah Island.In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • First Fleet

    de M Howard Morgan ...
    Series series A Jack Vizzard story
    Love, murder, betrayal, and adventure with transportation of convicts in 1787 and the founding of the penal colony that became Australia.With the American colonies closed to Britain, the gaols overflowed, the criminal under-class posed a threat to the property clazzes. A solution was required. The answer lay in the continent on the far side of the world - Terra Australis Incognita.'Discovered' by ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Serial Killers Australia (3-in-1 True Crime Compendium)

    de James Franklin ...
    Series series Epitome of Evil
    The bullets in her skull had been fired from three different directions, as if he had used her for target practice. Her brassiere had been pulled up and her jeans undone; the killer had taken her underwear as a trophy. The police were convinced he was murdering backpackers purely for pleasure...Read about the shocking backpacker murders of Ivan Milat, along with the horrific stories of Eric Edgar ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Outback Stations

    de Evan McHugh ...
    'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperback trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. And grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. And my country, Australia.'This is big country, the outback, home to the largest cattle and sheep stations in the world. Yet few of us know what goes on ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

  • Old-Timers: Magnificent stories from mighty Australians

    Magnificent stories from mighty Australians

    de Sandy Thorne ...
    An earthy, entertaining collection of yarns about twenty larger-than-life outback characters. Meet Ron Canlin, who one day began sculpting the sandstone walls of his opal mine. Ten years later, every drive and tunnel in Ron's claim is full of wonderful sculptures - the eighth wonder of the world. Or Peter Venables, with his flowing white beard, puffing his pipe like a character from the pioneering ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD