Irish South Australia: New histories and insights is a fresh look at the Irish contribution to South Australia. It includes the most recent work by passionate researchers covering adisciplines from archaeology to cultural studies through to local and state history. ...
Hedley Marston and the atomic bomb tests in Australia
Roger
Cross
Fallout is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery, but to expose as charlatans the Australian scientists who were appointed to protect the nation from any possible harm. ...
Here at last is Don Loffler's long-promised book on rare and special examples of the first ten Holden models. The first five chapters feature such vehicles in their recent and/or current state. The last five are devoted to historic images of the vehicles in their heyday. ...
For a limited time only, receive a FREE copy of Adrian Mitchell's Drawing the Crow with your purchase of Dampier's Monkey. Valid until 23 January 2019, while stocks last.
William Dampier, the 'devil's mariner' as he has been called, a far voyager and traveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was new - a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new science, under a new political and economic formation. ...
Adelaide Central Market: Stories, people and recipes tells the tale of Adelaide's greatest treasure.
These pages capture the memories of traders of yesteryear and the familiar faces who make the Adelaide Central Market such a lively place today. Here you'll find delicious seasonal-driven recipes from stallholders' families, producers and chefs around the state. ...
How Port Adelaide put itself on the national stage
Norman
Ashton
Port Adelaide's bold initial bid to join the national competition in 1991 had been thwarted by the SANFL, which put up a composite state team - what would become the Adelaide Crows - instead ... But Port's gutsy move was what finally propelled South Australia into the national football arena.
This fascinating book tracks Port's tumultuous, often controversial journey to the AFL: from 1981, when Victoria's VFL began to evolve into a national competition, to 1994, when Port Adelaide finally won its licence, beating out the teams who'd become bitter rivals along the way. ...
In this insightful collection of essays, some of South Australia's leading policy thinkers consider our future in the context of jobs, our economy and its drivers, industrial relations, law and order, the environment, education, health (including ageing and aged care) and more. ...
One family's transformation from Cornish farmers to Australian fighters
Wendy
Frew
Historian Charles Bean described the Leanes as 'the most famous family of soldiers in Australian history', and they were used as a poster family for recruitment in the First World War.
But these Aussie diggers were separated by only one generation from humble Cornish farmers, who sought godliness not glory when they sailed to Australia in 1852.
When Wendy Frew opened the genealogy cupboard to learn more about her martial ancestors, out fell a bunch of fiery evangelists and women's suffragists who embraced all the opportunities on offer in the new colony of South Australia.
A colonial history of the highlands of Papua New Guinea
James
Sinclair
Middle Kingdom chronicles the European 'discovery', exploration, 'pacification' and development of the Papua New Guinea Highlands to 1975, during the decades when PNG was an Australian colony. Jim Sinclair's book goes far beyond sagas of exploration to document the region's development through administration, industry and a growing infrastructure. ...
Letters from the Front by soldiers of Yorke Peninsula during the Great War
Don
Longo
Pens and Bayonets gives voice to the young Australia soldiers who volunteered to fight for our freedom in the Great War. They answered the call willingly, with many thinking it may be all over before they got there. How wrong they were. South Australia, and Yorke Peninsula in particular, were proud to provide soldiers for their country.
The letters were written during quiet periods and give us an insight and sometimes graphic account of the day-to-day encounters during the Gallipoli campaign and various offensives on the Western Front and Palestine. ...
Ochre and Rust takes nine Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and positions them at the centre of these gripping, poignant tales set in the heart of Australia's frontier zone. ...
In One Common Enemy, he recounts how the chaos and carnage of war at sea in the Norwegian and Mediterranean campaigns led him to a fateful rendezvous with a much-loved ship from his boyhood, the passenger liner Laconia. Nostalgia turned to disaster when Laconia was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the South Atlantic. ...
