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  • $40.00 Across The Pacific: Liners from Australia and New Zealand to North America
    Book For just over a hundred years there was a regular passenger liner service across the Pacific connecting Australia and New Zealand with the west coast of North America, the main terminal ports being San Francisco and...
  • $30.00 Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977
    Book Peter Plowman's book 'Emigrant Ships to Luxury Liners' was published in 1992, and sold steadily until 2004, when supplies were exhausted. Rather than reprint that book, he decided to produce a new book that concentrated...
  • $49.50 Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea 1888-1975
    CD record Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea 1888-1975 (prev published as Some Expatriates of Papua New Guinea) An invaluable resource covering various records of Australians, Germans, Pacific Islanders...
  • $29.50 Bound for South Australia: Births and deaths on government-assisted immigrant ships 1848-1885
    CD record A richly illustrated CD which brings, for the first time, a complete listing of 323 voyages to South Australia between 1848 and 1885 under the auspices of the South Australian Government. Information for each...
  • $10.00 Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Australian in New South Wales (NAA Guide 1)
    Book Julie Stacker and Peri Stewart This guide covers the numerous records held in our Sydney office relating to Chinese migration and settlement in NSW, from pre-Federation to 1966. It provides a valuable research tool for...
  • $30.00 Discovering the Great South Land
    Book This is the story of the evolution of the sailing ships that gradually linked Australia to Europe. This book explains how the navigational problems of Australia's huge coastline were conquered by ships that were at the...
  • $40.00 Emigrants and Expats
    Book It is estimated that over seventeen million people have emigrated from Great Britain & Ireland since the seventeenth century. Sometimes the decision was voluntary, to seek political or religious freedom, the need to...
  • $35.00 Fair Game
    Book Young women as fair game? In 1832, the British government sent 400 young single women to Sydney and Hobart to balance the male-dominated societies. The two ships were thr Red Rover from Cork and the Princess Royal...
  • $10.00 Good British Stock: child and youth migration to Australia
    Book About this guide Between 1901 and 1983, thousands of unaccompanied young People, mainly from Britain, came or were sent to Australia as permanent settlers. For some it was a fresh start and relief from grinding poverty;...
  • $19.50 HMS Buffalo
    CD record The year 2006 marks 170 years since the founding of South Australia in 1836, and the 28th of December is the anniversary of the arrival of HMS Buffalo under the command of the first governor, Captain John...
  • $15.00 How Did They Get Here?
    Book This modern, easy to use book has been designed to help you find arrival records for members of your family who came to Australia after 1924. The latest Internet resources are included with details on how to use them...
  • $55.00 Log of Logs v.2
    Book This is the second volume in the series. A Catalogue of Logs, Journals, Shipboard Diaries, Letters, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788 - 1993, for Australian and New Zealand and surrounding oceans. NOTE: Volume...
  • $26.50 Long farewell
    Book During the nineteenth century more than a million people, many of whom had never ventured beyond their homes in Britain, sailed to the new colonies of Australia. On their months-long voyage the emigrants lived in a...
  • $35.00 Merchant's Women
    Book The enterprising women on the Bussorah Merchant emigrant ship responded to advertisements that attracted them to migrate to far-away Australia. In contrast to convicts, these courageous women freely chose to make the...
  • $29.50 Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land
    CD record This book was published in 1889 for the purpose of providing useful information and travelling tips to intending passengers sailing to Australia and New Zealand aboard steam ships of The Orient Line. A brief...
  • $35.00 Quarantined: the 1837 Lady Macnaghten Immigrants
    Book Quarantined! tells the story of one of the first shiploads of family migrants to arrive in Australia. When the Lady Macnaghten set sail from Cork Harbour, it contained over 400 emigrants from Ireland, and a sprinkling...
  • $44.00 Racers of the Deep: Yankee Clippers and Bluenose Clippers on the Australian Run 1852-1869
    Book The Black Ball and the White Star shipping lines owned some of the world's largest and fastest clipper ships. From 1852 to 1869 their 146 ships dominated the run between Liverpool and Australasia. They carried a great...
  • $10.00 Safe Haven (NAA Guide 12)
    Book Records of the JewishExperience in Australia About this guide Ever since the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Jewish people have been a small but significant group in Australian life. This guide charts the ups and...
  • $35.00 Saltwater in the Ink
    Book During the 1800s, thousands of people travelled from England and Europe to new lands of the Antipodes. The voyage was a period of transition, a time of unaccustomed leisure and reflection. It produced a mass of...
  • $40.00 Scots in Australia
    Book Scots have been 'invisible' ethnics but happen to be Australia's third largest immigrant group. The Scots in Australia is a long overdue and comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants - including convicts and free...
  • $75.00 Shipping Arrivals and Departures V3 1856-60
    Book This extensive work provides a record of shipping movements in and out of ports within Victoria from 1856 to 1860. Separate lists of shipping arrivals and departures have been compiled for Melbourne, Geelong, Portland,...
  • $46.20 Shipping arrivals and departures VIC Ports v.2 1846-1855 h/c
    Book This extensive work provides a record of shipping movements in and out of ports within Victoria from 1798 to 1855. The compilations is similar in format and intent to those of compiled by John Cumpston, and ...
  • $40.00 Single and Free: Female migration to Australia 1833-1837
    Book Elizabeth Rushen Since Colonial times, Australians have been critical of large groupings of immigrants. This book focuses on the first scheme for female migration to Australia, exploring the reasons for contemporary and...
  • $33.00 Wanganella and the Australian Trans-Tasman Liners
    Book Although Wanganella was an Australian liner, owned by Huddart Parker Limited, she was very much a New Zealand ship as well, as she operated for the best part of thirty years between the two countries, and finished her...
  • $11.00 What Was the Voyage Really Like?: A Brief Guide to Researching Convict and Immigrant Voyages to Australia and New Zealand
    Book Discovering when and how an ancestor arrived in Australia is the ambition of every family historian. In the majority of instances it is now relatively simple, as archives have been indexing passenger lists over the...

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