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1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet by David Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
"An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Set against the backdrop of Georgian England with its peculiar mix of elegance, prosperity, progress and squalor, the sto ...Show more
1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet by David Hill
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Set against the backdrop of Georgian England, the story of the First Fleet is one of courage, shortsightedness, tragedy, but above all of extraordinary resilience. Using diaries, letters and official records, David Hill reconstructs the experiences of these famous and infamous men and women of history. ...Show more
Convict Colony: The Remarkable Story of the Fledgling Settlement That Survived Against the Odds by David Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. ...Show more
First Fleet Surgeon: The Voyage of Arthur Bowes Smyth by David Hill
$44.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
In a single leather-bound volume of 238 unlined pages of parchment, Surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth describes his two-and-a-half year journey with the First Fleet from Portsmouth in England to the new colony in Australia and back. He is a frank, articulate and observant writer, and his diary, a treasure of t ...Show more
First to the Top: Sir Edmund Hillary's Amazing Everest Adventure by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black color of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from a tiny New Zealand town, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do many other astonishin ...Show more
Gold!: The Fever That Forever Changed Australia by David Hill
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Australia's incredible gold rushes of the mid- to late-1800s produced tremendous wealth and ensured the financial survival of the struggling Australian colonies. Not only that, they also tripled the country's small population, were the last nail in the coffin for convict transportation, subverted the hi ...Show more
Making of Australia by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and acce ...Show more
Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The story of how David Hill and the other Forgotten Children took on the the institutions that tried to break them - and won. The Forgotten Children was David Hill's heartbreaking account of the abuse that he and other 'orphans of empire' survived at the Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales. Part ...Show more
The Forgotten Children by David Hill
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia ...Show more
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia by David Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia ...Show more
The Gold Rush by David Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
"The fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, ...Show more
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia by David Hill
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by th ...Show more