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Australian Greats by COCHRANE Peter
Category: Australiana
Australian Greats is a fascinating and wide-ranging collection of pieces by noteworthy writers, commentators, larrikins and curmudgeons on distinctive and sometimes surprising aspects of Australian life and history. There are 553 entries providing a veritable cornucopia of subjects including politics, t ...Show more
Best We Forget - The War for White Australia, 1914-18 by Peter Cochrane
Category: Australiana
The preparation for a coming war and ultimately the commitment to that war was driven by White Australia's sense of vulnerability in the Pacific, by various nightmare scenarios in which Australia could be left to fend for itself, unaided by Britain, and by the determination to have racial purity at almo ...Show more
Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy by Peter Cochrane
Category: Australiana
Colonial Ambition tells the story of the politicians and would-be politicians of Sydney, who were driven by a determination to lift themselves and their new colony to a higher level. They wanted parliamentary liberty, though they could not agree on what that meant, and that contest over meaning, centred ...Show more
Governor Bligh and The Short Man (Penguin Special) by Peter Cochrane
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
A cultured young Englishwoman, Mary is a complete novice at sea. She is entirely unprepared for life on the convoy that sets sail from Portsmouth in 1806: for the unfamiliar rituals, the great emptiness of the ocean, the terrifying storms, the bedazzling natural wonders. Most troubling of all is the biz ...Show more
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney Rn by Suzanne Rickard; Peter Cochrane (Foreword by)
Category: History
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1 ...Show more
Simpson and the donkey by Peter Cochrane
Category: Military
The simple tale of Simpson and his donkey is the pre-eminent legend of heroism. It is the story of a humble water-carrier, a rescuer of wounded men, a tale of compassion, stoic persistence, with a tragic end. His tale is an integral part of the Anzac story. Across time, a simple tale can acquire a compl ...Show more
The Making of Martin Sparrow by Peter Cochrane
Category: Fiction
Martin Sparrow is already struggling when the Hawkesbury's great flood of March 1806 lays waste to him and his farm. Luckless, lovelorn and deep in debt, the ex-convict is confronted with a choice. He can buckle down and set about his agricultural recovery, or he can heed the whispers of an earthly par ...Show more
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