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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Robin Bromby
The story of farming in Australia has always been one of drama-two steps forward and then three steps back. From the days of the First Fleet through to modern farming…
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Why do so many people try to diminish the gold story? And why does gold keep bouncing back in defiance of its critics? That is the theme of this book…
Railways: Their Life & Times sets out to be an evocation of the world of railways over more than a century - the achievements and the failures, the impressive and…
From the broadcast of the first news bulletin on radio in 1920, daily newspapers have been under pressure from a succession of challenges, ranging from television to suburban weeklies until…
Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy all embarked on their Second World War plans of conquest without one vital factor: sound economies that could absorb and withstand the stresses…
The nightmare of three different gauges, the daunting challenge of building railways across vast open spaces often with no water supplies, the follies of railway lines that were rarely used…
New Zealand railway builders surmounted many obstacles: the terrain, a sparse and scattered population, two islands separated by an often stormy stretch of water, demands from every small settlement for…
The band had played Watch on the Rhine, the sailors left behind cheered, other men waved their hats, and women cried, as the Emden pulled out of Germany’s China colony…
