Under Full Sail Rob Mundle HB $ 45.00 For anyone who travelled to Australia before 1850 , it was a long and arduous journey that could take as much as four months . With the arrival of the clipper ships , the journey from England could be done in a little over half this time , bringing keen and willing migrants hell-bent on making their fortune in Australia . Brimming with countless stories of the magnificent ships and the characters we find on them , Under Full Sail is another ripping tale from Rob Mundle .
1787 Nick Brodie PB $ 29.99 For over 200 years Australia ' s official history has focused on English colonisation and ' discovery '. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own ? 1787 traces the journey of Australia before the infamous 1788 date , placing Indigenous Australians back into our known history . It shifts focus away from post-colonial history and engages the reader in the eventful stories of Australia as a land participating in a global history .
Bob Ellis : In His Own Words Bob Ellis PB $ 34.99 Bob Ellis : In His Own Words showcases the best of Ellis ' s celebrated and much-loved essays , speeches , diaries and scripts , in addition to previously unpublished work , archival photos and reflections from close friends and family . Compiled by Ellis ' s widow , Anne Brooksbank , this collection contains all the wit , acuity and outspokenness that we came to expect from this inimitable wordsmith .
The Story of Australia ' s People Volume II Geoffrey Blainey HB $ 49.99 In Volume II of The Story of Australia ' s People , Geoffrey Blainey continues his account of the history of this country from the early Gold Rush to the present day , completing the story of our nation and its people . From the Gold Rush to Land Rights and the Digital Age , Blainey brings to life the key events of more recent times that have shaped us into the nation and people we are today .
What is a Refugee ? William Maley PB $ 29.99 In Australia , growing alarm about the arrival of asylum seekers has led to the country imposing increasingly draconian anti-refugee policies . In Europe , the recent arrival of more than a million refugees and asylum seekers has provoked a sense of panic . William Maley offers a guide to the complex idea of ' the refugee ' and sets the current crisis within the wider history of human exile , injecting much-needed objectivity and nuance into the debate .
True Girt David Hunt PB $ 32.99 In this sequel to Girt , David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier . This was the Wild South , home to hardy pioneers , gun-slinging bushrangers , directionally challenged explorers , nervous indigenous people , Caroline Chisholm and sheep . Lots of sheep . True Girt introduces fascinating new historical figures , from the Tasmanian governor who invented the Blow My Skull cocktail to the Melbourne hipster who gave Australia the steampowered coffee roaster .