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James Cook: Master Mariner Navigator and Cartographer, the Man Behind the Myth by Peter FitzSimons
42.99 NZD
49.99 (14% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable names in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, an ...Show more
James Cook - The story behind the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
HE STORY BEHIND THE MAN WHO MAPPED THE WORLD The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost ma ...Show more
Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimons
59.99 NZD
69.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Dop 2008 Australia Peter FitzSimons weaves together the extraordinary story of For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know the names of the men who fought on the track, or even the details of what happened. More Australians died in the months of fighting in Papua, t ...Show more
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
Kokoda : Illustrated Edition. by Peter FitzSimons
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
This gripping and bestselling account of the Kokoda campaign is now available in a superbly packaged, hardback gift edition, illustrated with almost 150 photographs. Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia - a small force of young, ill-equipped Australians engaged a highly experienced and hitherto un ...Show more
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
The story of Australia?s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton.Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia?s greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition le ...Show more
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on hi ...Show more
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
65.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December, 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision an ...Show more
Monash's Masterpiece: The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world by Peter FitzSimons
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes oper ...Show more
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons
37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plan ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more