This is the story of the world's people during the last four million years. It begins before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents...more details Format:Paperback Pages:680
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G Blainey
ISBN:9780670880362
Australia's renowned historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey makes the past come alive in this sweeping history of the world. With an emphasis on the everyday life of different eras...more details Format:Hardback
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9781864489286
In 1848, as the Australian colonies were emerging from depression, three public-spirited citizens---a clergyman, a business entrepreneur and a wool merchant---devised a plan to form a 'provident' society...more details Format:Hardback
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....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780521689878
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....more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
Geoffrey Blainey, one of Australia's most accomplished and popular historians, takes us on a journey from the very beginnings of Christianity through to the current day. Looking at the development of the religion itself...more details Format:Hardback Pages:640
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780670070343
A companion to Geoffrey Blainey's acclaimed: A Short History of the World, it traces the significant events of this tempestuous century - its massive wars...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:576
Geoffrey Blainey 's Short History of the World, published by Ivan R. Dee in 2002, rapidly became a book of choice on the subject. Jacques Barzun called it a unique achievement...more details Format:Paperback Pages:367
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9781566635073
A superb history 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. Mr. Blainey explores the development of technology and skills...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
A superb history 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. Mr. Blainey explores the development of technology and skills...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:480
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780143002666
In this bestselling book master story-teller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on an absorbing guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I...more details Format:Paperback Pages:492
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780670041329
A lively and fascinating journey into Australian daily life in the period from the first gold rushes to the World War One. The book looks at tasks and pleasures everyone knew about but which are now largely forgotten....more details Format:Hardback Pages:496
Each year the ABC invites a prominent Australian to present the result of his or her work and thinking on major social, scientific or cultural issues. Geoffrey Blainey explores issues of Australia's place in the world. With Australia becoming increasingly important as a country of first refuge...more details Format:Paperback
It would be difficult to find, in European civilization in the last two centuries, two sisters who achieved more success across the arts and professions than Fanny and Adelaide Kemble...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:339
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9781863953474
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Blainey Geoffrey
ISBN:9781863954853
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
In this accessible new edition, Geoffrey Blainey, one of our greatest historians and a lifelong devotee of Lawson, selects and introduces some of the master's greatest work....more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Blainey Ann
ISBN:9781863951838
I Am Melba - how a Melbourne girl defied her father and left her husband to become the most famous singer of the age. Growing up in Melbourne...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Ann Blainey
ISBN:9781863953672
I Am Melba - how a Melbourne girl defied her father and left her husband to become the most famous singer of the age. Growing up in Melbourne...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Ann Blainey
ISBN:9781742120744
Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. As a young wife and mother on the Queensland cane-fields...more details Format:Audio cassette
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780522850093
Australia is one of the world's great sources of mineral treasure. Our landscape is littered with mines bearing evocative names like Rum Jungle...more details Format:Paperback
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Blainey Geoffery
ISBN:9780143204893
Two ships set out in search of a missing continent: the St Jean-Baptiste, a French merchant ship commanded by Jean de Surville, and the Endeavour...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:432
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9781566638258
In 1769 two ships set out independently in search of a missing continent: a French merchant ship, the St. Jean-Baptiste, commanded by Jean de Surville...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:322
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Blainey Geoffrey
ISBN:9780670073160
Two ships set out in search of a missing continent: the St Jean-Baptiste, a French merchant ship commanded by Jean de Surville, and the Endeavour...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:432
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780670072231
Two ships set out in seach of a missing continent: the St Jean-Baptiste, a French merchant ship commanded by Jean de Surville, and the Endeavour...more details Format:Hardback Pages:432
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Geoffery Blainey
ISBN:9780670042739
A companion to Geoffrey Blainey's acclaimed A Short History of the World and traces the significant events of this tempestuous century- with its massive wars...more details Format:Hardback Pages:576
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780143006145
This new book from celebrated historian Geoffrey Blainey takes us on an incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years. His eye for detail and evocative style bring to vivid life many of the events that marked the 20th century: two world wars...more details Format:Paperback Pages:576
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780732911171
When Geoffrey first wrote the title in 1966, he coined a phrase that has become part of our language. This acclaimed work of Australian history describes how the unique factors of our size and isolation shaped Australia's past...more details Format:Paperback
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780143005599
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 World traces the story of the world's people during the last four million years...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:492
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Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN:9780670042029
A Very Short History of the World is the story of the world's people during the last four million years. It begins before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents...more details Format:Hardback Pages:384