South by Northwest
The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica

"For many, Antarctic history begins and ends with the race between Scott and Amundsen for the geographic south pole but they were late to the start and only briefly on the course. By then, another polar race had already been in progress for seventy years, and it would continue for even longer. That race, for the South Magnetic Pole, was a marathon rather than a sprint and its starting point was suitably distant from Antarctica, in the ice of the fabled Northwest Passage." More . . .
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Most Perfectly Safe
The Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833 to 1842

"If you had to sail to Australia in the early nineteen century there were worse ways to travel than being transported as a convict. Your living conditions were better than those of the sailors who manned your ship. Discipline was harsher for the troops who guarded you. And, disease and mutiny apart, it was as the Admiralty claimed, 'most perfectly safe'. Until 1833. . ." More . . .
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FAST COMPANY
The lively times and untimely end of the clipper ship
Walter Hood 1852-1870

"This book tells the story of one of the thousands of sailing ships that for more than sixty years were European Australia's only link with "home" and for even longer sustained the infant colonies and carried their products to the world. " More . . .

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Ahab's Trade
A Saga of South Seas Whaling

"Gladiator one minute, galley slave the next. Danger and abuse, excitement and tedium, these were the lot of open boat whalemen in the South Seas for more than two centuries. By the end of those centuries of struggle and adversity they had explored and exploited every corner of the world's oceans in the hunt for the spermaceti whale, and charted much of them to boot." More . . .

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The Devil's Gambit - BOOK 1
Book 1 of Allen's, as yet, unpublished work is here for you to
read and enjoy, free of advertising and charges.

In the last days of World War Two a signal from a long lost gypsy agent in Germany prompts the British Secret Service to parachute an officer in to re-establish contact. Jonathon Smith finds himself in a web of intrigue as the Third Reich crumbles, taking old loyalties with it. Everyone is looking for a way out. Everyone, that is except Adolf Hitler, and who can move if he will not?

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The Ballad of Jack Doolan, the Wild Colonial Boy
Re-written by Granville Allen Mawer

A note from the Author: The Wild Colonial Boy is generally believed to be either a wholly fictional character orvery loosely based on Bold Jack Donohoe, a convict bushranger of the 1820s.There was, however, a juvenile bushranger named Jack Doolan born, as the song says, in Castlemaine (Victoria). . More . . .

Read more about Granville Allen Mawer's book
at the Australian Government's National Center for
History Education web site