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  • In For The Long Haul: First Fleet Voyage & Colonial Australia

    The Convicts' Perspective

    by Annegret Hall ...
    Many stories of the First Fleet and NSW colony are prejudicial to the conduct of convicts and especially females. This book relates the history of this period through the eyes of the convicts, and in doing so debunks many untruths about the young men and women who struggled to create a new life in an unknown land. The lives of two convicts, Anthony Rope and Elizabeth Pulley from rural Norfolk, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Mayflower Voyage: Premium Edition - 4 Book Collection

    Four Perspectives on the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony, and the 1620 Atlantic Crossing

    by William Bradford, Azel Ames, Bureau of Military and Civic Achievement ...
    The Mayflower Voyage: Premium Edition gathers four complementary treatments of the 1620 Atlantic crossing and its aftermath, placing eyewitness chronicle, historical reconstruction, maritime detail, and civic remembrance in illuminating conversation. Its range extends from the grave, providential cadence of colonial narrative to later documentary and interpretive prose, allowing readers to trace ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voyages, the Age of Sail

    Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865

    by Joshua M. Smith ...
    Series Book 1 - New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology
    Intended as a text for college and advanced high school students, Voyages covers the entirety of the American maritime experience, from the discovery of the continent to the present. Published in cooperation with the National Maritime Historical Society, the selections chosen for this anthology of primary texts and images place equal emphasis on the ages of sail and steam, on the Atlantic and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Voyages, the Age of Engines

    Documents in American Maritime History, Volume II, 1865-Present

    by Joshua M. Smith ...
    Series Book 2 - New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology
    Intended as a text for college and advanced high school students, Voyages covers the entirety of the American maritime experience, from the discovery of the continent to the present. Published in cooperation with the National Maritime Historical Society, the selections chosen for this anthology of primary texts and images place equal emphasis on the ages of sail and steam, on the Atlantic and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Series Book 1 - The Unauthorised History of Australia
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  • Love and Hate in Jamestown

    John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

    by David A. Price ...
    A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for ... Read more

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  • Pacific

    Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

    by Simon Winchester ...
    One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to ... Read more

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  • Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

    from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Eureka Stockade - the unfinished revolution . . . In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and even the nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it: � a ... Read more

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  • Here Shall I Die Ashore

    Stephen Hopkins: Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim.

    by Caleb Johnson ...
    In the spring of 1621, Plymouth Colony sent STEPHEN HOPKINS to make the first visit to Wampanoag sachem Massasoit to present a red horseman’s coat as a gift and sign of friendship. For most ordinary Englishmen, venturing off into the depths of unexplored America would have been a once in a lifetime adventure: but not for Stephen. By the time he turned forty, he had already survived a hurricane, ... Read more

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  • Captive Paradise

    A History of Hawaii

    by James L. Haley ...
    The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient ... Read more

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  • The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

    First-Person Accounts

    by Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson ...
    The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the SeaIn 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. ... Read more

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    by Thomas Keneally ...
    In this volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories that he has woven a vibrant history to do full justice to ... Read more

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