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1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent ...Show more
Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England. A population of proud indigenous people fight for generations to preserve their homelands against an expanding empire - an invasion justified as being necessary for 'progress'.After centuries of resistance, their culture and com ...Show more
Inga Clendinnen: Selected Writings by Inga Clendinnen; James Boyce (ed.)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia's greatest writers and thinkers. This selection covers the full scope of her writing, from Tiger's Eye to Aztecs, from Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. The rich array is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen's life and ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this multi-award-winning history of colonial Tasmania, James Boyce shows how the newcomers were changed by the natural world th ...Show more
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