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Pergamon Press Oxford, 1969. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Acceptable Used copy. Who won the Battle of Jutland ? Jutland (Denmark), Battle of, 1916 (ex-library with usual marks) #0521 Fold-out diagram of ships Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Acceptable Used copy

Princeton University Press, 1994. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a ""savage"" himself. In this new edition of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, the author addresses, in a lengthy afterword, Marshall Sahlins's 1994 book, ""How Natives Think"", which was a direct response to this work.pp. 336 illusts #100424 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen… Read More

Echo Publishing, 2021. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY Â Born in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is her birth mother. When her adoptive mother tragically dies and she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is raped, sent to the brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her rapist in order to keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic abuse, but refusing to let her spirit be broken, Diane finally discovers she is a Yorta Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is reunited with her birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather was a famous Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful leader in her own right, vowing to help others in any way she can. 336 pages : portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm #230923 First Edition O'Brien, Dianne O'Brien, Dianne -- Childhood and… Read More

ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2006. Softcover. FINE!. The Aarons family; The Archer family; The Ashton family; The Belgiorno-Nettis family; The Boyd family; The Forrest family; The Kidman family; The Street family.Profiles eight Australian families which, over generations, have produced some of the nation's top politicians, journalists, sportsmen, artists, indigenous leaders, graziers and industrialists. Members talk of their ancestors' achievements and experiences and what it takes to keep family tradition alive.xii, 225 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.  #190722Aarons family.  |  Archer family.  |  Ashton family.  |  Belgiorno-Nettis family.  |  Boyd family.  |  Forrest family.  |  Kidman family.  |  Street family.  |  Families -- Australia -- History.  |  Australia -- Social life and customs. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book… Read More

Random House, Australia, 2014. Softcover. Near Fine. ‘Diving was a boys-own adventure, a jump into the unknown full of devil-may-care attitudes. It welcomed you with one hand and cast you asunder with the other. It was a hideous bitch goddess and it drank the blood of the unprepared.’Since his low-key upbringing, Hugh ‘Obi’ O’Brien’s life has been a wild ride. What led this country boy, one of four sporty sons, from Sydney boarding school to directionless youth to navy clearance diver – slipping undetected through deep waters to defuse mines and dismantle bombs? Then, upping the adrenaline, Obi joined the mysterious Special Forces counterterrorism unit TAG (East) – no walk in the park.In his memoir Undaunted – full of eye-popping anecdotes and sparing the reader nothing of his persistent self-doubt – he recounts this incredible journey. He also describes the difficult transition from military life – to his days risking… Read More

Strathfield, NSW : St Pauls Publications, 2015. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. WEST AUSTRALIANA BIOGRAPHY RELIGION Â    The Spanish-born priest’s leadership of colonial Western Australia’s early Catholic community, including the Catholic Church’s ministry and social welfare outreach. Vatican intervention, interfaith relations and the role of Catholicism in colonial expansion are explored.xxxvi, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm #230523/041223 Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-276) and index. First Edition Griver, Martin, 1814-1886 Catholic Church -- Western Australia -- Bishops -- Biography Catholic Church -- Western Australia -- History Australian  Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at… Read More

Allen & Unwin, 2020. Softcover. A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond.There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang even a hat, no door, no rug for cold morning bare feet, no bookshelf for a voracious reader, no bedside cupboard for a lamp or a glass of water, no light source - just a bed and a suitcase for the next two years.In 1960, newly minted teacher Peter O'Brien started work as the only teacher at a bush school in Weabonga, two days' travel by train and mail car from Armidale.Peter was only 20 years old and had never before lived away from his home in Sydney. He'd had some teaching experience, but nothing to prepare him for the monumental challenge of being solely responsible for the education of 18 students, ranging in age from 5 to 15 years old. With few lesson plans, scant… Read More

Apollo Press, Perth, 1986. Softcover. Very Good. WEST AUSTRALIANAThis created quite a controversy when it was first published! pp. xvi, 252 #0419/121222 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2004. French flaps|Softcover. Near Fine. TRUE CRIME BIOGRAPHY AUSTRALIAN ART & DESIGN Florence Broadhurst, the one-time chanteuse of Shanghai, Bond Street salon owner, world-renowned wallpaper designer and Sydney socialite lived a life steeped in subterfuge and deception. Here for the first time we get a glimpse at the fascinating woman behind the hand-printed brocades.Late in the afternoon of 16 October 1977, seventy-eight year-old Florence Broadhurst was brutally murdered. Her killer was never found.The mystery surrounding Florence's death is in keeping with the elegant artifice of her life. Born in rural Australia, Florence soon decided Queensland was too small a stage. She travelled the world, changing her name and business as she went--a performing arts academy in Shanghai, a fashion salon in London and a husband or two until finally, in 1949, she returned to Australia. This time Broadhurst claimed to be an English woman escaping post-war London for the… Read More

The Author, Bunbury, 1981. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. Damaged dustjacket.. MINING West Australiana Signed by author. Near Fine in Poor Dustjacket.ncludes short chapter on Aboriginal fringe-dwellers in the area.186 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm. First Edition. Scarce.#090423O'Brien Tom (Thomas Niel) | Central Norseman Gold Corporation. | Gold miners -- Western Australia -- Biography. | Gold mines and mining -- Western Australia -- Norseman -- History. | Habitation - Camps - Fringe and town. | Mining industry - Gold. | Norseman (W.A.) -- History. | Norseman (SE WA Goldfields SI51-02) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Near… Read More

Collins, London, 1984. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good +.  AUSTRALIAN MILITARYWorld War II. Australian RAF pilot ex-Coastal Command who flew missions for the Chindit operation in Burma. Very critical of Wingate's and Stillwell's style of ""newspaper headline"" command. pp. 272 0919X/021122/180723 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

JRP/Ringier, Zurich, 2008. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. ART Â 11 interviews with curatorial pioneers“I became interested in finding out more about the history of my own field and who the curators from previous generations were who offer a toolbox for the 21st century.” As Hans Ulrich Obrist clearly explains, this volume aims to document the legacy of legendary curators and pioneering ideas within the curatorial field, and presents a unique collection of interviews: Anne d’Harnoncourt, Werner Hofmann, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hultén, and Harald Szeemann are brought together in this publication.The contributions map the development of the curatorial field, from early independent curating in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and in the United States at this time, through documenta and the development of biennales.Conceived as “an act… Read More

New Zealand : John Douglas Publishing, 2012. Hardcover in Dustjacket. AS NEW COPY!. ANZAC MILITARYAlso TitledHoia toa Alfred Preece : tetahi o ngā morehu o te Hoko Whitu a Tumatauenga This is the story of Alfred (Bunty) Preece of the Chatham Islands, soldier, farmer, local body politician, kaumatua and tireless advocate for his people. His recollections of the Italian Campaign of World War Two and the effect of those two-anda- half years were but the beginning of a lifetime of dedication to the welfare of others. It is written in the sincere hope that it will one day form part of the full history of D Company 28 (Maori) Battalion. This book is moving and inspirational. It is not a story about the glories of war - that is a romantic illusion of those who have never been to war, never been fired on or had to fire on others in the front lines. It is a story of personal sacrifice and bravery almost beyond description. It is also a story of the Maori people trying to achieve. This title has a full… Read More

Duffy & Snellgrove, 1998. Softcover. Very Good. AUSTRALIANAAustralia's population is set to rise to as many as 26 million by the year 2051. It will do this by accident - Australia has never had a population target. Do we understand the implications of this massive growth for our society and environment? Mark O'Connor explains how Australia's population and immigration debates have been stifled by political correctness and examines the moral, environmental, economic and political issues involved with the population debate. 335 p. ; 20 cm. #111123 (Age tanning) Population -- Environmental aspects -- Australia Australia -- Population Australia -- Emigration and immigration Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse,… Read More

Access Press, Perth, 1996. Hardcover. FINE!. 101 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. First Edition. #150622 Pristine copy.Odgers family. | Western Australia -- Genealogy. Goldmining GoldfieldsForeword by (descendant) Sydney Corser Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover FINE!

New Holland, 2001. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY pp. 400, illusts #010123 (bookshop stamp on fep) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover Near Fine

Urban Design Forums WA, 2018. Softcover. FINE. The Urban Design Forum is a volunteer-based group of individuals who are passionate about Urban Design. Every two months the Urban Design Forum organise a conversationally styled environment to open up discussions on different subject matter related to the spatial development of our cities. Every few years these discussions are captured in a publication to provide a series of vignettes and notes encapsulating some of the contemporary urban issues of our time. pp. 163 illusts #0820 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Rigby, 1974. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good +. Edgewear to jacket.. AUSTRALIANA ARCHITECTURE[80]pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30cm.  First Edition #040822Buildings of historical importance. Tasmania. Illustrations.  |  Architecture -- Tasmania.  |  Buildings -- Tasmania.(Small closed tear to jacket and name on fpd.) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Very Good +. Edgewear to jacket.

New South Wales University Press, 1987. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA1987 reprint (originally published 1986). 335 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm. #170923 Bibliography: p. [311]-325. Irish -- Australia -- History Australia -- History Name blacked out on fep, otherwise a fine hardcover copy Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Near Fine

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIAN ART ABORIGINAL Bede Tungutalum, Rover Thomas, Mandjuwi, Milpurrurru, Trevor Nickolls / exhibition curated by Michael O'Ferrall64 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. #261023""Exhibition venue: Art Gallery of Western Australia, February 15-23 April, 1989'.Tungutalum, Bede -- ExhibitionsThomas, Rover -- ExhibitionsMandjuwi -- ExhibitionsMilpurrurru, George -- ExhibitionsNickolls, Trevor, 1949- -- ExhibitionsPainting, Australian -- Aboriginal artists -- Exhibitions Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover Near Fine