Sea Shepherd: 40 Years by David Hance
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. Its mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. Sea Shepherd ...Show more
Curious Voyages - A Collection of Astoundingly True Tales by Andrew Murray (Illustrator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Over thousands of years the world was wide with wind-powered boats, one of man's most beautiful constructions, and sailors had to struggle in the age-old game of Man vs Sea. This collection of tales is not a history of sail, it's a voyage through centuries of curious sailing adventures.
The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Adam Courtenay
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in our Museums & Why we Need to Talk About it by Alice Procter
$36.35 AUD
Category: History
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron's recent commitment to art restitution, and Beyo ...Show more
Under Fire: How Australia's Violent History led to Gun Control by Nick Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each other, the firearm is an inescapable part of Australia's story and its characters. But just as guns have been a part of Australia's modern identity, ...Show more