" OLD BRUIN" : COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY by SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON
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This Everlasting Silence - The Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914 by Nancy Robinson Flannery (ed)
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Nancy Robinson Flannery has done a fine job of editing these unabridged letters. They make poignant reading and are a reminder that even heroes suffer the same doubts and frailties as the rest of us. (Elizabeth Dean, Australian Book Review, June 2000) Dark-eyed beauty Paquita Delprat, 17, first noticed ...Show more
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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In 1507 the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller published a world map with a new continent on it which he called America', after the explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. The map was a phenomenal success and when Mercator's 1538 world map extended the name to the northern hemisphere of the continent, t ...Show more
A Country Nurse by Thea Hayes
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More fascinating and inspiring rural adventures from Thea Hayes, author of the bestselling An Outback Nurse.
Elizabeth Fry : A Biography by June Rose
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Elizabeth Fry, mother of 11 children and a Quaker minister, is seen as one of the most influential and enigmatic women in English history. Dismayed by the terrible prison conditions in the early 19th century, Fry drew the world's attention to the plight of incarcerated women, and became a living legend. ...Show more
Every Beat of My Heart: An ABC Journalist's Journey From Death By Cardiac Arrest to Complete Recovery by Jeff Waters
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One ordinary weekday evening, Jeff Waters had just gone to bed in his Melbourne home when pain began in his left arm and chest. He mentioned it casually to his wife, a GP, but dismissed her evident alarm - after all, he ate healthily, he swam regularly, he wasn't overweight or diabetic, and he was only ...Show more