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Commodities in Motion eBook Series

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  • From the Sheep's Back

    Commodities in Motion

    by John W Gates ...
    Series series Commodities in Motion
    In 1807 a single bale of colonial wool sold in London for ten shillings and fourpence a pound. Within a century, wool was the foundation of the Australian economy, and the nation rode on the sheep's back.From the Sheep's Back tells the whole story: the Macassan trepang fleets that were Australia's first export trade; Macarthur's merinos; the squatters, convict and Chinese shepherds, cameleers and ... Read more

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  • The Lie of the Land

    Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

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    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES________________________________The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good s... ... Read more

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  • The Winter Road

    A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek

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  • The Ferals that Ate Australia

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    by Guy Hull ...
    Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmareWinner of the 2022 Whitley Award, for a book about invasive species zoology.Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna. But a little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession and brought with it the foreign animals that now dominate the country's ... Read more

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  • A Shorter History of Australia

    by Geoffrey Blainey ...
    A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians.After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events that have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport; the suspicion of the ... Read more

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    Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock

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    For the young (and the curious)

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    A modern classic: Don Watson’s history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are – and what we might become.The Story of Australia weaves together the many strands of our nation’s past – ancient and indigenous, colonial and contemporary – to create a fascinating history for all readers, young and old.In clear, succinct ... Read more

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