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A LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE : VOYAGES TO AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND THE PACIFIC FROM THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE BAYLY 1824-1844 by George Bayly
$45.00 AUD
$70.00 (35% off)
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Miegunyah Press S.
A life on the Ocean Wave is rich in accounts of typhoons, rescues, storms, shipwrecks and shipboard disputes. Details of life at sea vary from amusing anecdotes about passengers to ship customs and sailing directions.
A World That Was - The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia by Ronald M. Berndt; Catherine H. Berndt; John Stanton
$630.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser.
This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray ...Show more
COMMANDANT OF SOLITUDE : THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN COLLET BARKER 1828- 1831 by JOHN MULVANEY AND NEVILLE GREEN
$155.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser.
E. Phillips Fox - His Life and Art by Ruth Zubans
$200.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser.
Imagining the Pacific - In the Wake of the Cook Voyages by Bernard Smith
$25.00 AUD
$32.95 (24% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
European artists and scientists traveling to the Pacific during the time of Cook's voyages were often stimulated to see the world in new and creative ways. In this book, a preeminent art historian discusses how these voyages influenced art and literature of the period. Bernard Smith discusses in detail ...Show more
John Gould in Australia - Letters and Drawings by Ann Datta; John Gould
$250.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser.
Mariners Are Warned! - John Lort Stokes and H. M. S. Beagle in Australia, 1837-1843 by Marsden Hordern
$35.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office in 1837 to survey and chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline. He was the last Royal Navy surveyor to hold such a roving commission-as had Matthew Flinders and Phillip Parker King before him. The voyage lasted six years and his ...Show more
Mawson: A Life by Philip Ayres
$30.00 AUD
$39.95 (24% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser.
A hero of the polar exploration age, Sir Douglas Mawson is profiled in this biography, which recounts his Antarctic expeditions of 1911 1914 and 1929 1931, which resulted in Australia claiming 40 percent of the sixth continent. The personal letters and professional correspondences included reveal Mawson ...Show more
The Art Movement in Australia - Design, Taste and Society 1875-1900 by Andrew Montana
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Second Miegunyah Press Ser.
The “Art Movement” flourished in Australia between 1875 and 1900. It was a response to British-led aesthetic movements and to the flowering of ornamental and decorative arts throughout the Western world. This is the first comprehensive study of the dynamic impact of ornament and decorative arts design o ...Show more
The French Consul's Wife : Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillian in Gold-Rush Australia by CELESTE DE CHABRILLAN
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Miegunyah Press Second Series
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