True stories: discovery, historical & scientific books

Academic literature rarely gives an account of the ethical challenges and emotional pitfalls the researcher is confronted...  Read More >>

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A dazzling collection of writing about the sea - from first-hand accounts of ocean voyages to stories by Banjo Paterson...  Read More >>

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This grisly collection of historic, horrid happenings from across the country demonstrates that Christmas is not...  Read More >>

This is the joyful yet heartbreaking true story of four friends who walk a 21- day pilgrimage from the sea to the...  Read More >>

One winter's evening in 1821, stung by his girlfriend Eliza's rejection, 17-year-old John Horwood picked up a stone...  Read More >>

When the volcano Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago, the city of Pompeii disappeared under the ash. Four hundred years...  Read More >>

Previously titled Rebel Chorus. The Australian character has been wrought by sedition. Britain sent to Australias...  Read More >>

It is no surprise that the barbarity and evil that came in the wake of the wreck of the Batavia has inspired books,...  Read More >>

Classic Australian Folklore is a compendium of our rich colonial past: all the tales, epics, ballads, myths and...  Read More >>

Walter Birge was a U.S. Foreign Service officer from 1940-53 and these memoirs cover his family background and his...  Read More >>

Tired of their careers in the oil industry, Corinna Weyreter and Gjalt van der Zee sailed away from the rat race...  Read More >>

Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two...  Read More >>

"HRH Duke of Edinburgh writes in his foreword: ""This book tells a quite remarkable story...makes a very good read""."...  Read More >>

How do you break a man whose secrets could end the war?  Read More >>

InThe Bushrangers, Evan McHugh explores the incredible stories of the men (and women) who achieved fame not just...  Read More >>

The extraordinary life of Edward Payson Weston, the prime mover in pedestrianism - a sport that took the Victorian...  Read More >>

One hundred years after the tragedy of the Titanic, a revised and updated edition of the New York Times bestselling...  Read More >>

Unshriven is a true and factual account of an extraordinary happening in the life of the author, June Kidd. As a...  Read More >>

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON brings to life the trauma of the Titanic through the true story of one family.  Read More >>

This volume is a selection of the finest animal tales by the renowned naturalist Ernest Seaton-Thompson and includes...  Read More >>

A Distance Travelled is the fourth in a quartet of books by Terence Kearey dealing with aspects of life in Britain...  Read More >>

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A Changing World is the third in a quartet of books by Terence Kearey dealing with aspects of life in Britain through...  Read More >>