Australasian & Pacific History
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Vagabond Papers
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Australian life has never had a chronicler quite like the Vagabond. Renowned as journalist and eminently unconventional character', he suffered ex...
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Vastly Ingenious
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vas...
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Where is Dr Leichhardt?
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost L...
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While the Billy Boils
Sydney University Press£26.99| /Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his col...
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White Ghosts, Yellow Peril
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand and their peoples during t...
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Windows on a Women's World
Otago University Press£29.50| /The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, ...
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Winning for Women
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /What was it like to be involved in the heady days of second wave feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisi...
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Wiremu Pere
Libro International (NZ)£69.99| /Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapt...
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Women Mean Business
Otago University Press (NZ)£23.00| /From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we...
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Working Lives c. 1900
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identit...
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Yijarni
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, protesting agains...
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