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A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers: 1880-1920 (Fair Dinkum Histories #5) by Jackie French
$16.98 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then ...Show more
Booms, Busts and Bushfires (#8 Fair Dinkum Histories) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our land - and the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #4: Gold, Graves and Glory by Jackie French
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Category: No Category | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels... Australia would never be th ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories 6 - Weevils W by FRENCH Jackie
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Category: Children's Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: Qantas founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #6: Weevils, War and Wallabies by Jackie French
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Category: No Category | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: QANTAS founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Gold, Graves and Glory by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
For 60,000 years the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals. Now a con man had found gold, and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia; adventurers, revolutionaries, and camels! Join the heroes and villains of the past as t ...Show more
Gold, Graves and Glory: 1850-1880 (Fair Dinkum Histories #4) by Jackie French
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Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels . . . Australia would never be ...Show more
Grim Crims & Convicts (Fair Dinkum Histories #2) by Jackie French
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Category: No Category | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen. Eleven ships with nearly 15,000 people travelled 25,000 kilometers to the other side of the world. But what did they find when they arrived?
Grim Crims and Convicts by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
It was an incredible idea, to found a colony of convicts, eight months' sail away from Great Britain. It was a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. It was just slaves in huts. No country had ever though to send a colony so far away. This book covers the Australian history, warts and all. It is ...Show more
Grim Crims and Convicts: 1788-1820 (Fair Dinkum Histories #2) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
It was an incredible idea-to found a colony of convicts eight months' sail away from Great Britain. In a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. Just savages in huts. The Dutch, the French and the Portuguese had known about this place for two hundred years-and had turned their noses up at it. The ...Show more
Rotters and Squatters by Jackie French
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Category: No Category | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
Charts the transition from penal settlement to sustainable 'free' colonies. It begins with the arrival of Governor Brisbane and the implementation of the Bigge Report, and ends in the year before the beginning of the gold rush. Ages 8+.