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GOLD DUST AND ASHES
The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields
Idriess latest book is the romance of the Edie Creek and Bulolo diggings, situated inland from Salamau; and the associated names of diggers as "Shark Eye Bill" (William Park), Matt Crowe, Jim Preston, Arthur Dowling, Frank and Jim Pryke... men who in pre-war years crept across the frontier, defying the Germans and dodging the headhunters.
ISBN-13: 9781922384782 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $34.95
Stock: 11 in stock
Local release date: 29/08/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Bony at Bermagui
Arthur Upfield's Aboriginal detective Bony features in 29 novels, and this book holds a "lost" Bony story - angling off Bermagui, along with several rarely seen Upfield pieces on Big Game Fishing in Australian, hunting for Marlin and Swordfish, as well as a memory piece on Bermagui - where he fished very succesfully in the 1930s, and where he ......
ISBN-13: 9781922698209 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Arthur Upfield
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 14/03/2022
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Categories: Autobiography: literary [BGLA]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Port Essington
The British in North Australia 1838-49
History of the British settlement of Victoria in Port Essington, from 1838-1849.
ISBN-13: 9780648142171 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh
Price:
AUD $39.95
Stock: 10 in stock
Local release date: 15/10/2020
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Categories: Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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The Beach of Atonement
An early Upfield mystery novel, first published in 1930.
ISBN-13: 9781922698599 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Arthur Upfield
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AUD $34.99
Stock: 8 in stock
Local release date: 01/10/2022
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Categories: Autobiography: literary [BGLA]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Edgar Marceau's Photographic Legacy
The Barrington Tops and Allyn Valley in the 1920s
Large format book with 100 photographs showing changing life in small communities around the Barrington Tops in northern New South Wales. These photographs were taken by Edgar Marceau, whose grandfather Joseph was exiled to Australia from Quebec in 1840. Marceau was a talented photographer who documented the Allyn Valley communities in the 1920s ......
ISBN-13: 9781923024083 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Allan Hancock
Price:
AUD $34.95
Stock: 7 in stock
Local release date: 12/07/2023
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Walkabout
Arthur Upfield is internationally known for his 29 crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective. In these thirteen stories written for Walkabout magazine between 1934 and 1949 and published in book form for the first time, readers will travel well beyond the cities, aided by maps and original photographs – through Cooper’s Creek, visiting ......
ISBN-13: 9781922473875 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Arthur Upfield
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AUD $24.95
Stock: 7 in stock
Local release date: 16/11/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: literary [BGL]Autobiography: literary [BGLA]Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Lasseter's Diary
Transcribed with Mud-Maps
The diary was purchased by Ion Idriess from Lasseter’s widow in 1931, and from it he wrote the best-seller Lasseter’s Last Ride. Here is the transcription of the diary with its original mud-maps and drawings.
ISBN-13: 9781922384003 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Harold Lasseter
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AUD $24.95
Stock: 7 in stock
Local release date: 04/03/2020
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Categories: Technology, engineering, agriculture [T]Other technologies & applied sciences [TT]Mining technology & engineering [TTU]Humanities [H]History [HB]Regional & national history [HBJ]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]

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Darwin 1869
The Second Northern Territory Expedition
Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the governance of South Australia. Land was sold to investors, unseen and unsurveyed and in an unknown location. The sales raised the funds needed to found the new colony of Palmerston, the future capital of the ......
ISBN-13: 9780648142126 (Paperback)
Publisher: DEREK PUGH
Imprint: DEREK PUGH
Derek Pugh
Price:
AUD $29.99
Stock: 7 in stock
Local release date: 31/07/2018
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Historical geography [HBTP]Geographical discovery & exploration [RGR]Australasia, Oceania & other land areas [1M]

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Images of an Australian Enlightenment
The Story of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie's Treatment of the Convicts
This is the story of two Scots, Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British colony of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, and of his wife, Elizabeth Macquarie, both of whom pioneered a policy of rehabilitation and renewal as part of their treatment of the convicts.
ISBN-13: 9781912690046 (Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
Austin Lovegrove
Price:
AUD $69.99
Stock: 5 in stock
Local release date: 22/10/2020
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL]Rehabilitation of offenders [JKVQ1]United Kingdom, Great Britain [1DBK]Australia [1MBF]