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An Atlas of Tolkien (HB) by David Day
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Tolkien
This lavish, colour atlas is a complete guide to the weird and wonderful geography of Tolkien's world. Packed with full page maps and illustrations of events in the annals of Middle-earth, it is the perfect companion to the bestselling A Dictionary of Tolkien. This book is unofficial and is not authoris ...Show more
Andrew Fisher by David Day
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Andrew Fisher was a man who hated imperial honours, yet enjoyed the trappings of office, a leader who believed in world socialism, yet took Australians into the First World War. In this authoritative and immensely readable biography, David Day reveals the man, his politics and his remarkable legacy.
Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia by David Day
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was one of Australia's great nation-builders, yet his story is largely unknown. He left school early to work in the coalmines of Scotland, educating himself at night. In 1885, at the age of 22, he immigrated to Queensland. There Fisher committed himself to politics and was s ...Show more
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, ...Show more
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: good-verygood
A groundbreaking history of human interaction with Antarctica, the last continent on earth. For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But explorers failed to find one. On his second voyage to the Pacific, Captain James Cook sailed further sou ...Show more
Chifley: A Life by Day, David
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ben Chifley was arguably twentieth-century Australia's greatest and most popular prime minister. Many of the policies that his Labor government introduced after the Second World War came to define modern Australia: mass immigration, improved social services, the beginnings of a free health-care scheme, ...Show more
Collins Complete Woodworkers Manual [Revised Edition] by Albert Jackson, David A Day
$59.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
A completely revised, redesigned and updated edition of the definitive woodworker's bible. Authoritative, superbly crafted and easy to use, Collins Complete Woodworker's Manual is the one book every woodworker needs. This new revised edition has been extensively rewritten and contains new photographs an ...Show more
Conquest : A new history of the modern world by David Day
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Bestselling author and prize-winning historian David Day's controversial new history of the modern world. Conquest is a groundbreaking new book that challenges the context of Australian history as well as the history of the rest of the world. In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed book, Claiming a ...Show more
John Curtin : A Life by DAVID DAY
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
John Curtin is, for many Australians, regardless of political affiliation, the most significant Australian political leader of the twentieth century. In this remarkable biography, David Day follows Curtin from his peripatetic childhood in small-town Victoria to his courageous and dramatic leadership of ...Show more
Paul Keating: The Biography by David Day
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the tradition of his bestselling Curtin and Chifley, David Day's exhaustive biography of one of our most fascinating prime ministers. Paul Keating was one of the most significant political figures of the late twentieth century, first as Treasurer for eight years and then Prime Minister for five years ...Show more
THE WEATHER WATCHERS : 100 YEARS OF THE BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY by David Day
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Australia's capricious climate has tested its inhabitants for centuries. For a colony of farmers, knowing what the weather might bring was a matter of great importance. This title brings to life the history of the Bureau of Meteorology, from its inception in 1907 to the modern day.