Australian Colonial History

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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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The Secret River
The Secret River 3.81 avg rating — 24,634 ratings
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For the Term of His Natural Life
For the Term of His Natural Life 3.96 avg rating — 3,050 ratings
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The Lieutenant
The Lieutenant 3.68 avg rating — 5,655 ratings
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Searching for the Secret River
Searching for the Secret River 3.97 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock 3.66 avg rating — 29,097 ratings
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True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.83 avg rating — 23,798 ratings
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Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1) 3.94 avg rating — 6,328 ratings
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Forgotten War
Forgotten War 4.26 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Black Kettle and Full Moon
Black Kettle and Full Moon 3.87 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Bearbrass: Imagining early Melbourne
Bearbrass: Imagining early Melbourne 3.85 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Melbourne Trilogy, #1)
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Melbourne Trilogy, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 1,790 ratings
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Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1)
Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 4,802 ratings
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Forgotten Places
Forgotten Places 4.04 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Parrot and Olivier in America
Parrot and Olivier in America 3.44 avg rating — 7,567 ratings
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People 4.20 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia
Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia 3.94 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer
Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Eureka Stockade
Eureka Stockade 3.56 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier
Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier 4.12 avg rating — 74 ratings
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1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia 3.92 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Timeless Land (The Timeless Land Trilogy, #1)
The Timeless Land (The Timeless Land Trilogy, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Storm of Time (The Timeless Land Trilogy, #2)
Storm of Time (The Timeless Land Trilogy, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 53 ratings
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South of Darkness
South of Darkness 3.49 avg rating — 773 ratings
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The Letters of Rachel Henning
The Letters of Rachel Henning 3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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1788
1788 4.12 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Georgiana's journal: Melbourne, 1841-1865
Georgiana's journal: Melbourne, 1841-1865 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Town life in Australia,
Town life in Australia, 3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Esther - The extraordinary true story of the First Fleet girl who became First Lady of the colony
Esther - The extraordinary true story of the First Fleet girl who became First Lady of the colony 4.07 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Hell Ship
Hell Ship 4.13 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Irish Women in Colonial Australia
Irish Women in Colonial Australia 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career 3.80 avg rating — 7,486 ratings
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Phillip Parker King 1791-1856, a most admirable Australian
Phillip Parker King 1791-1856, a most admirable Australian it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Iron Wire
The Iron Wire 3.81 avg rating — 81 ratings
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White Spirit
White Spirit 4.41 avg rating — 388 ratings
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The Currency Lads
The Currency Lads 4.13 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Letter
The Letter 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Lornesleigh Legacy
The Lornesleigh Legacy
by: Kay Bell
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Two Rivers Run: The Story of Gippsland's First Pioneer-Settler, Samuel Anderson
Two Rivers Run: The Story of Gippsland's First Pioneer-Settler, Samuel Anderson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Room Made of Leaves
A Room Made of Leaves 3.85 avg rating — 10,086 ratings
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The women were there: Nineteen women who enlivened Australia's history
The women were there: Nineteen women who enlivened Australia's history 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Railway Dog: The True Story of an Australian Outback Dog
The Railway Dog: The True Story of an Australian Outback Dog 4.12 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka 3.99 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Cooper's Creek
Cooper's Creek 3.83 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Always a lady: Courageous women of colonial Australia
Always a lady: Courageous women of colonial Australia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police
The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Golden summers: Heidelberg and beyond
Golden summers: Heidelberg and beyond it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mary Cunningham - An Australian Life
Mary Cunningham - An Australian Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A New Britannia
A New Britannia 4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Margaret Catchpole (Australians in history series)
Margaret Catchpole (Australians in history series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Victorian and Edwardian Melbourne from old photographs
Victorian and Edwardian Melbourne from old photographs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle
A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Sydney in ferment: Crime, dissent and official reaction 1788 to 1973
Sydney in ferment: Crime, dissent and official reaction 1788 to 1973 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Two at Sullivan Bay
Two at Sullivan Bay 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Band of Gold (The Smuggler's Wife #3)
Band of Gold (The Smuggler's Wife #3) 4.14 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Notes and sketches of New South Wales: During a residence in the colony from 1839 to 1844
Notes and sketches of New South Wales: During a residence in the colony from 1839 to 1844 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 4.18 avg rating — 226 ratings
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People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia
People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia 4.35 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Ruth Park's Sydney
Ruth Park's Sydney
by: Ruth Park
3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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No Barrier (The Timeless Land Trilogy, #3)
No Barrier (The Timeless Land Trilogy, #3) 4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Recollections of an Australian Squatter + Account of a Journey to Gipps Land
Recollections of an Australian Squatter + Account of a Journey to Gipps Land really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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First Australians: An Illustrated History
First Australians: An Illustrated History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Colony: A History of Early Sydney
The Colony: A History of Early Sydney 4.30 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Australian Bushrangers
Australian Bushrangers 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Merchant Campbell (Australians In History Series)
Merchant Campbell (Australians In History Series)
by: Ruth Park
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years [combining two volumes]
My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years [combining two volumes] really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Australian pioneer women
Australian pioneer women 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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When the Lyrebird Calls
When the Lyrebird Calls
by: Kim Kane
3.67 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Bridget Crack
Bridget Crack 3.36 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings
Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 - Volume 2
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 - Volume 2 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Summer at Mount Hope
Summer at Mount Hope 3.51 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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Sense & Nonsense in Australian History
Sense & Nonsense in Australian History 3.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Killing for Country: A Family Story
Killing for Country: A Family Story 4.33 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Maisie : Her life in her letters from 1898 to 1902
Maisie : Her life in her letters from 1898 to 1902 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Men of Yesterday: A Social History of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890
Men of Yesterday: A Social History of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Most Perfectly Safe: The Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42
Most Perfectly Safe: The Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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This Whispering in Our Hearts
This Whispering in Our Hearts 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Unfortunate Victim
The Unfortunate Victim 3.56 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Convict Colony: The Remarkable Story of the Fledgling Settlement That Survived Against the Odds
Convict Colony: The Remarkable Story of the Fledgling Settlement That Survived Against the Odds 4.07 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Truganini
Truganini 4.14 avg rating — 789 ratings
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The journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin July 1858 - May 1868
The journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin July 1858 - May 1868 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Search for the Inland Sea: John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828
The Search for the Inland Sea: John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Birth of Melbourne
The Birth of Melbourne 3.75 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The legend of the nineties
The legend of the nineties really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia
Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Land Boomers: The Complete Illustrated History
The Land Boomers: The Complete Illustrated History 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Naturalist's Daughter
The Naturalist's Daughter 4.10 avg rating — 1,901 ratings
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The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Sydney Experiment
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Sydney Experiment 3.68 avg rating — 1,461 ratings
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Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Joseph Lycett: Governor Macquarie's convict artist
Joseph Lycett: Governor Macquarie's convict artist 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Melbourne street life: The itinerary of our days
Melbourne street life: The itinerary of our days 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Birdman's Wife
The Birdman's Wife 3.63 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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Poverty Abounding, Charity Aplenty: The Charity Network in Colonial Victoria
Poverty Abounding, Charity Aplenty: The Charity Network in Colonial Victoria
by: R.A. Cage
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Foundations of identity: Building early Sydney, 1788-1822
Foundations of identity: Building early Sydney, 1788-1822 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Western Port settlement and its leading personalities
The Western Port settlement and its leading personalities it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Love and the Platypus
Love and the Platypus 3.81 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country
The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country 4.28 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling
Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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