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A Game of Our Own : The Origins of Australian Football by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: Sport
Carries us back to the era when the ground was not oval, when captains acted as umpires, when players wore caps and jerseys bearing forgotten colours and kicked a round ball that soon lost its shape. An excellent social history and a compulsory read for all true fans of the game, this book will also app ...Show more
A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: Sport
Today Australian Rules football is a multi - million - dollar business' with superstar players' high - profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera. The game has changed beyond recognition - or has it? In A Game of Our Own' esteemed historian Geoffrey Blainey documents the birth of our gr ...Show more
A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: Sport
Today Australian Rules football is a multi-million-dollar business, with superstar players, high-profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera. The game has changed beyond recognition - or has it? In A Game of Our Own, historian Geoffrey Blainey documents the birth of our great national ga ...Show more
A History Of Victoria by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: Australiana
In this lively book, Geoffrey Blainey, Victoria's best known historian, traces the history of Victoria from the time the Aboriginals could walk across Bass Strait to the State's fall from grace and the collapse of the Cain government.
A History of Victoria - Second Edition by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: Australiana
A History of Victoria is a lively account of the people, places and events that have shaped Victoria, from the arrival of the first Aboriginal peoples through to the present day. In his inimitable style, Geoffrey Blainey considers Victoria's transformation from rural state to urban society. He speculate ...Show more
A Short History of the 20th Century by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: History
Australian historian Blaine offers a history of the recently departed century. This was a entury that opened with high hopes and grave perils and ended in the same fashion. In between, the continued ascendancy and ending of European supremacy, two world wars, rival totalitarian ideologies, the spreadof ...Show more
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: History
Takes us on an incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years and brings to vivid life many of the events that marked the 20th century: two world wars, the rise and fall of communist states, the worst economic slump, the decline of European monarchies ane empires, the ascent of the first ...Show more
A Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: History
"Narrated by a distinguished historian, here is an account of the grand adventure of human history. It is the story of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents, and ending with the recent millenn ...Show more
A Shorter History Of Australia by BLAINEY Geoffrey
Category: Audio
After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport, the suspicion of the tall po ...Show more
A Shorter History of Australia (PB) by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: Australiana
After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport, the suspicion of the tall po ...Show more
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: History
Following the success of his A Short History of the World, eminent historian Geoffrey Blainey has abridged his account of the grand adventure of human history to create ad eve more accesible version of his absorbing work. A Very Short History of the Worldtraces the story of the world's people during the ...Show more
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: Non-Fiction
"A Very Short History of the World" is the story of the world's people during the last four million years. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of it coming together again in recent cent ...Show more