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On A Barbarous Coast
Buy This Book On A Barbarous Coast Allen and Unwin Fiction 309 pages ISBN: 9781760877347 An alternative retelling of Captain James Cook’s story, co-written by black and white authors. What would have happened had the Endeavour been wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef off northern Australia and the shipwreck survivors been thrown up on an unknown coast – fearful of the land of the people that lived thre? Fierce, intriguing and thoughtful, On a Barbarous Coast is the story of a past and future that might have...
read moreThe Science of Communicating Science: the ultimate guide
Buy This Book THE SCIENCE OF COMMUNICATING SCIENCE: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE CSIRO/CABI NON-FICTION 249 pages ISBN: 9781486309818 A practical guide to communicating science to influence beliefs, behaviours and policies. Are you wishing you knew how to better communicate science, without having to read several hundred academic papers and books on the topic? Luckily Dr Craig Cormick has done this for you! This highly readable and entertaining book distils best practice research on science communication into accessible chapters, supported by case...
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Buy This Book YEARS OF THE WOLF IFWG Publishing Australia Historical Mystery 214 pages ISBN: 978-0-9945229-3-1 This story begins with a murder. A German internee is found dead inside a civilian internment camp during World War One, and one young internee, Arno Friedrich, determines to find the killer. But the more he probes into the lives of his fellow internees the more he discovers that little within the old stone prison is as he had imagined. He finds that the Germanic facades and fantasies the men construct hide secrets within secrets. And...
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Buy This Book The Seven Voyages of Captain Cook A novella Dimension Six/coeur de lion Fiction 257 pages ASIN: B07771J5XX The Seven Voyages of Captain Cook is a story of first encounters and clashes of cultures. But imagine that Captain Cook visited the Pacific not in the past, but in the future. But haunted by his own ghost from the past? How different might his encounters have been then. A fantastical re-imagining of history, playing with the past, the present and the...
read moreKALEVALA REVISITED
Buy This Book Kalevala Revisited 44 pages Satire ISBN: 0958710864 A satirical revisiting of the great Finnish folk epic the Kalevala, imagining the three heroes Vainamoinen, Ilmarinen and Lemminkainen arrive in modern Finland, trying to understand why they have been called back to the land of Kalevala. A funny and engaging...
read moreBackseat Drivers
Buy This Book Backseat Drivers Ginninderra Press 263 pages Non-fiction ISBN: 9781760415051 It’s a fact not yet universally acknowledged, that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway, preferably in the company of Captain Cook, Henry Lawson, Caroline Chisholm, Don Bradman and Ned Kelly. And if you never have that chance, then this is the book for...
read moreBenji the Buccaneer
Buy This Book Benji the Buccaneer New Frontier 100 pages Children’s fiction ISBN: 9781925059052 Benji is offered the chance of his dreams – to skip school and become a pirate for a day. But after battling sea monsters and searching for haunted buried treasure, he discovers that being a good pirate requires just as much learning as school.
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Buy This Book Valdur the Viking and the Ghostly Goths, 2016 Ford Street Publishing, 115 pages Children’s fiction ISBN: 9781925272420 Hi. My name is Valdur and I’m a Viking. We’ll, I hope to be a real Viking one day. I’m still a child actually. But I do get to roam the seas on my father’s ship. Until, that is, he was kidnapped by his arch-enemy, the Goth pirate Germanicus Bottom. So now, by Odin’s smelly socks, I have to fight Romans, sea monsters and the Pirate Goths to rescue him. Luckily I have my dragon-dog Ragna with me...
read moreThe Floating City
Buy This Book The Floating City, 2015 Angry Robot Books 361 pages Fiction/Fantasy ISBN 9780857664235 The Floating City is in turmoil. The magical seers who protect it are being killed by fearsome Djinn that rise out of the canals at night. Members of the city’s Council of Ten are being assassinated by masked fanatics. Refugee ships are arriving, bringing plague. Othmen spies are infiltrating everywhere. New power blocks are battling for control of the city. And the three Montecchi daughters, Giuliette, Disdemona and Isabella, are struggling...
read moreNED KELLY
Buy This Book CSIRO Publishing, 2014 263 pages Non-fiction ISBN 9781486301768 By Craig Cormick Ned Kelly Under the Microscope details the many scientific investigations into the famous Australian outlaw and bushranger Ned Kelly. Illustrated throughout with photographs taken during the forensic investigation, as well as historical images, the book is supplemented with breakout boxes of detailed but little-known facts about Ned Kelly and the gang to make this riveting story a widely appealing...
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