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  • Great Convict Escapes in Colonial Australia

    af Warwick Hirst ...
    Serier Bog 134 - Untapped
    Six vividly told true stories of daring, desperate and dangerous escape attempts by colonial era convicts. Just how did Mary Bryant make it from Sydney to Timor in an open boat? And how did the murderous cannibal Alexander Pearce managed to escape not once, but twice, and with what dire consequences?Based on original documents and accounts, this book is a story of human endeavour and ... Læs mere

    55,06 kr.

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  • The Fatal Shore

    The authoritative history of the British colonisation of Australia.

    af Robert Hughes ...
    A landmark history that confronts Britain’s colonisation of Australia.In The Fatal Shore, historian and critic Robert Hughes offers a vivid, unflinching account of Britain’s colonisation of Australia; a history built on the forced transportation of convicts and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on meticulous research, Hughes recreates the harsh realities of the penal system, the ... Læs mere

    146,29 kr.

  • The Ship That Never Was

    The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

    af Adam Courtenay ...
    The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storytellerIn 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to ... Læs mere

    152,26 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

    Også tilgængelig som: Lydbog

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  • Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

    from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

    af Peter FitzSimons ...
    Eureka Stockade - the unfinished revolution . . . In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and even the nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it: � a ... Læs mere

    208,38 kr.

  • The First Fleet

    af Rob Mundle ...
    A biography of unprecedented expedition under sailThe role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition under sail: the extraordinary eight-month, 17-000-nautical mile voyage of the First Fleet. With ... Læs mere

    128,20 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

    Også tilgængelig som: Lydbog

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  • Australia's Most Notorious Convicts: From thieves and bushrangers to murderers and cannibals

    af Barbara Malpass Edwards ...
    Thousands of convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, some managed to escape incarceration and went on to achieve notoriety in their new land. A few tried to invent a Robin Hood reputation, taking the side of the poor settler against those in authority. Some committed crimes so heinous they were both feared and despised by the general population. Their lives were desperate, their fate ... Læs mere

    40,01 kr.

  • Australians

    Thomas Keneally

    af Thomas Keneally ...
    In this volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories that he has woven a vibrant history to do full justice to ... Læs mere

    137,26 kr.

  • Banks

    A riveting account of one of the world's most famous explorers, a story of lust, science, adventure, and voyages of discovery, from the award-winning author of BANJO, SISTER VIV and HUDSON FYSH

    af Grantlee Kieza ...
    Lust, science, adventure -- Joseph Banks and his voyages of discoverySir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.Fabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in ... Læs mere

    152,26 kr.

  • The Remarkable Mrs Reibey

    The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh

    af Grantlee Kieza ...
    The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful woman in colonial historySHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INDIE BOOK AWARDSIn 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove.It was the beginning of a ... Læs mere

    152,26 kr.

  • Buckley's Chance

    a new era of Australian non-fiction storytelling

    af Garry Linnell ...
    'Always compelling, very entertaining.' Daily Telegraph'A fabulous yarn. Highly recommended.' Better ReadingHe fought Napoleon’s army and survived.He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose.Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history.The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war ... Læs mere

    160,27 kr.

  • The Bounty

    The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

    af Caroline Alexander ...
    Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this ... Læs mere

    96,99 kr.

    Også tilgængelig som: Lydbog

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  • Captain James Cook

    af Richard Hough ...
    In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. He was the linking figure between the grey specualtion of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the ... Læs mere

    152,26 kr.