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1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award and the 2013 Tasmania Book Prize With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land - and more people - was conquered than in the preceding fifty. In 1835 James Bo ...Show more
Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England. **WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020** 'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress up their avarice as "progress" - a lesson we could do with lear ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this multi-award-winning history of colonial Tasmania, James Boyce shows how the newcomers were changed by the natural world th ...Show more
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