Search Results: Australian History from Anubis Books

Deakin, Canberra. I.M. Cumpston.A well-regarded history of Australian defence policy through the 20th century. An ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings, but the pages are crisp and clean and the binding is tight and square.

Sydney, Knopf, 2002. First edition hardcover. 513pp plus 32pp of photographs. In near fine condition with light tanning to pages.Signed and inscribed by the author.

Melbourne, MUP, 1988. Hardcover in Fine Condition. x + 294 pages. Part critical survey and part cultural history, Big-Noting traces and examines the celebration in literature of the Australian military experience from the 1890s to the late 1980s.

Sydne, Pan Books, 1982. Paperback in very good condition.
A facsimile of the first 1906 edition, an historical study investigating European explorations of Australia and New Guinea.

Melbourne University Press, 1998. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dustwrapper. "From Wattle & Daub to Concrete & Steel is the first history of building techniques in Australia, from the primitive buildings of the early colonies to today's high-tech construction methods. Henry Cowan traces construction techniques from the earliest wattle-and-daub, through traditional European construction methods using stone, timber, brick and iron, to the early development of Australian brick veneer and the first buildings using steel frames. He shows how the enormous changes in building technology this century have revolutionised the way we design, use and think about our buildings and how they have shaped our cities and our lives."

This 27th edition of the guide is undated but circa 1960. The maps and other contents are designed as a guide for car day-trips around Sydney so only main and other large roads are include. There are several pages of ads, descriptions of places of interest, and a 5 page article; How to Run a Car Rally. This is a well used copy with a heavily rubbed cover. The interiors have a few marks but are generally clean and in good condition.

South Melbourne, Sun Books. 1983. Paperback in very good condition. A biography of one of Australia's great prime ministers.

Sydney, Currency Press and the Australian Film Institute. 1981. The first in the Australian Screen series of crititcal and historical studies of Australian cinema. In very good condition, with a faded spine.

Melbourne, Affirm Press, 2019. Paperback in finme / as new condition. Paul Byrnes explores the incidence of of under-age ANZAC soldiers in the First World War.

1994, Melbourne Uni Press. Hardcover in Near fine condition. xii + 378 pages. "The Sydney suburb of Mosman, a peninsula between Port Jackson and Middle Harbour, is in a class of its own. Renowned in the past for whaling and careening, pleasure grounds, artists' and bohemians' camps, and army fortifications, it is still distinguished by the presence of the military, Taronga Zoo, bush, beaches, ferry travel and sailing. In an account that is remarkable for its extensive research, vivid detail and engrossing narrative, master historian Gavin Souter traces a two-centuries course of change from Aboriginal habitation to convict farming, wharfage, residential subdivision, quarrying, and eventually what Henry Lawson called Mosman's "red-tiled roofs of comfort."

Hazelbrook, Moshpit Publishing, 2014. First edition paperback, signed by the author.

Sydney, UNSW Press, 2005. Hardcover. The first of two volumes, commissioned by the State Records Authority of NSW. As new.

Sydney, Ashfield and District Historical Society. 2020. A large format papback in fine / new condition.
This is issue 22 of the Journal of the Ashfield and District Historical Society. The journal includes a comprehensive database of men and women who enlisted in the Great War. There is also a more detailed look at the lives and circumstances of some members of the community about whom more information could be found. A beautiful and sad record.

Nowra, Shoalhaven Shire Council, 1975. Hardcover, second, revised edition. In near fine condition.

Fremantle, FACP. 2006. First edition paperback with 320 pages. As New.
" When David Attenborough filmed his ground-breaking series Life on Earth in 1978, he chose one place in the world to demonstrate the early evolution of fishes: Gogo. Gogo, in the wild Kimberly district of Western Australia, is one of the world's most significant fossil sites because it shows 375 million - year old fishes preserved in stunning three-dimensional preservation. These fossils provide a rare window into the anatomy of primitive fishes at the critical stage when fishes where starting to evolve into the first land animals, the line ultimately leading to us humans. Yet, despite being such an important fossil site, it has had a mysterious and checkered history of discovery.
Written by palaeontologist John Long, who has spent over 20 years searching and working the Gogo sites, Swimming in Stone tells the amazing stories of the people who discovered the fossils."