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Escape
The true story of the only Westerner ever to break out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton
“This is one of the world’s most notorious—and remarkable—heroin traffickers: Melbourne man David McMillan. Despite still being on the run, McMillan has written a book, Escape, about … his amazing breakout in Bangkok” The Australian.
ISBN-13: 9781912049967 (Paperback)
Publisher: MONSOON BOOKS
Imprint: MONSOON BOOKS
David McMillan
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AUD $22.99
Stock: 5 in stock
Local release date: 13/10/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True crime [BTC]Society & social sciences [J]Social services & welfare, criminology [JK]Crime & criminology [JKV]Penology & punishment [JKVP]

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Long Walk
The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
ISBN-13: 9781493022618 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LYONS PRESS
Slavomir Rawicz
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AUD $34.99
Stock: 4 in stock
Local release date: 14/06/2016
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]

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Twenty to the Mile: The Overland Telegraph Line
The greatest engineering feat of 19th century Australia
The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph. This is a history of the Overland Telegragh Line from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, written for its 150th anniversary.
ISBN-13: 9780648142195 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh
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AUD $39.95
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 15/12/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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FORTY FATHOMS DEEP
Pearl Divers & Sea Rovers in Australian Seas
As much a history of pearling and lugging in and around Broome, this has been out of print for 30 years, but now in its 22nd edition.
ISBN-13: 9781922384805 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $34.95
Stock: 42 in stock
Local release date: 15/10/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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Johnny James and Other Verses
Dave Morrell grew up on cattle stations in the Kimberley before becoming Broome’s only vet. The Kimberley and its wild frontier is as much part of Dave as he is of it. This high quality, 208-page coffee-table book of stories and poetry is the perfect memento for those who love the normally-untold histories of Australia’s remote regions.
ISBN-13: 9780648464693 (Hardback)
Publisher: EXPLORING EDEN MEDIA
Imprint: EXPLORING EDEN MEDIA
Dave Morrell
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AUD $69.95
Stock: 20 in stock
Local release date: 18/02/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Autobiography: general [BGA]Memoirs [BM]Literature & literary studies [D]Poetry [DC]Poetry by individual poets [DCF]Humanities [H]History [HB]Lifestyle, sport & leisure [W]Travel & holiday [WT]Travel & holiday guides [WTH]

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The Inner History of the Kelly Gang
I have read your book with a great deal of satisfaction, and I must congratulate you on having rendered a great service in the cause of Truth and Justice… You are the only author who has the courage to do justice to the Kelly Gang; you have liberated the truth, so long supressed, regarding the policy and administration of the police; through your ......
ISBN-13: 9781922698032 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
J.J. Kenneally
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AUD $29.95
Stock: 22 in stock
Local release date: 06/12/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]

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Twitch Upon a Star
The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery
Based on exclusive interviews, this book includes insider material from those associated with Elizabeth Montgomerys remarkable life before, during, and after Bewitched. It also explores her political activism.
ISBN-13: 9781630760250 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
Herbie J Pilato
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AUD $38.99
Stock: 21 in stock
Local release date: 13/02/2015
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]

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Back O'Cairns
Trekking The Cape York Peninsula
In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as “Gouger” for the Bulletin.In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler’s axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the ......
ISBN-13: 9780648739043 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $34.95
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 18/11/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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The Scout
The Australian Guerrilla Series #6
The final book in the Idriess Guerrila Series, written in 1942 with the threat of Japanese invasion, full of interest regarding military tactics, and bush survival.
ISBN-13: 9781922473332 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $29.95
Stock: 33 in stock
Local release date: 16/02/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Memoirs [BM]True war & combat stories [BTM]Humanities [H]History [HB]Military history [HBW]First World War [HBWN]