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Alan Villiers - Voyager of the Winds

Alan Villiers - Voyager of the Winds

Author: Kate Lance

This biography tells of the life of Alan Villiers, sailor, author and photographer.

$20.00

Grock King of Clowns

Grock King of Clowns

Author: Grock (Edited by Ernst Konstantin, Translated by Basil Creighton)

Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach) was a Swiss clown. Called 'the king of clowns' and 'the greatest of Europe's clowns', he was once the most highly paid entertainer in the world.

$20.00

Guantanamo  My Journey

Guantanamo My Journey

Author: David Hicks

'The media has long proposed that one of the many questions I should publicly address is, "What was I doing in Afghanistan?"'

$18.00

My Pilgrimage

My Pilgrimage

An Autobiography

Author: F W Boreham DD

$15.00

Nelson's Friendships

Nelson's Friendships

Author: Hilda Gamlin

A personal history of Lord Nelson and his friends, written in defence of his honour and in justice to his memory (notably concerning his 'friendship' with Emma Lady Hamilton).

$150.00

Neville Howse

Neville Howse

Author: Michael B Tyquin

A Biography of Australia`s first Victoria Cross winner.

$20.00

Reminiscences

Reminiscences

Editor: Alexander Tolmer

Reminiscences of an adventurous and chequered career at home and at the antipodes. Written by the ex-commissioner of police in South Australia. 2 volumes.

$60.00

Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki

Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki

Author: Lech Paszkowski

Reflections on the life of Strzelecki.

$20.00

Specimen Days

Specimen Days

Author: Walt Whitman

Illustrated with 133 USA Civil War photographs and selected pictures from the life of Walt Whitman.

$25.00

Storms and Dreams

Storms and Dreams

Author: John Dunmore

Louis de Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman.

$20.00

The Correspondence of G E Morrison

Editor: Lo Hui-Min

Volume 1 1895-1912

Morrison was The Times correspondent in China in the later Imperial and early Republican period and became a political advisor to the first President of the Republic of China until his death in 1920.

$95.00

The Diaries of John Helder Wedge 1824-1835

The Diaries of John Helder Wedge 1824-1835

Editors: The Hon Mr Justice Crawford, W F Ellis and G H Stancombe

One of the few diaries surviving from the early days of settlement in Van Diemen's Land - scarce title, limited edition of 1000 copies.

$28.00

The Diary of Beatrice Webb

The Diary of Beatrice Webb

Authors: Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie

4 volumes

Beatrice Webb, who with her husband Sidney Webb was at the centre of British intellectual and political life for nearly seventy years, kept a diary from the age of fifteen until her death.

$50.00

Weary King of the River

Weary King of the River

Author: Sue Ebury

'A Giant of a Book about a Giant of a Man' - illustrated gift edition.

$20.00


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