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A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
Booms, Busts and Bushfires (#8 Fair Dinkum Histories) by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our land - and the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years by Jackie French; Peter Sheehan (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world. Then along came the Du ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #4: Gold, Graves and Glory by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Softcovers | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels... Australia would never be th ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories 6 - Weevils W by FRENCH Jackie
$15.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: Qantas founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #6: Weevils, War and Wallabies by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Softcovers | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: QANTAS founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #8: Booms, Busts & Bushfires by Jackie French
$10.00 AUD
$16.99 (41% off)
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our landand the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us a r ...Show more
Gold, Graves and Glory by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
For 60,000 years the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals. Now a con man had found gold, and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia; adventurers, revolutionaries, and camels! Join the heroes and villains of the past as t ...Show more
Gold, Graves and Glory: 1850-1880 (Fair Dinkum Histories #4) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels . . . Australia would never be ...Show more
Gold Rush (Fair Dinkum Histories All the Stinky Bits) by Jackie French
$10.00 AUD
$14.99 (33% off)
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: FAIR DINKUM HISTORIES
Telling BITS of history as they really were! Gold fever hit Australia in the 1850s and it was the start of a wild, crazy hunt that saw people from all over the world come to try their luck. A few people might have dug up a fortune, but what most diggers dug was latrines. It turns out that the Gold Rush ...Show more
Grim Crims & Convicts (Fair Dinkum Histories #2) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Softcovers | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen. Eleven ships with nearly 15,000 people travelled 25,000 kilometers to the other side of the world. But what did they find when they arrived?
Grim Crims and Convicts by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
It was an incredible idea, to found a colony of convicts, eight months' sail away from Great Britain. It was a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. It was just slaves in huts. No country had ever though to send a colony so far away. This book covers the Australian history, warts and all. It is ...Show more