<p>Published by the National Library of Australia. Learn how to be an explorer in your own backyard! Would you know how to find water and food, collect plants, make a shelter and stay alive if you were out in the bush? As you delve into this book full of the adventures of the European explorers of Australia, you will experience with them their many challenges, such as finding their way, mapping an area, trapping animals and coping with drought. All the old favourites are here James Cook, John Oxley, Hamilton Hume, Edward John Eyre, Ludwig Leichhardt, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, and others who are less well-known. Theirs are stories not only of tragedy, conflict and death, but also of loyalty, amazing perseverance and wonder over the new animals and landscapes they encountered. Australian Backyard Explorer is filled with paintings, photos, drawings, journal extracts, interesting fact boxes and practical projects to do in your backyard.</p>

Australian Backyard Explorer

Peter MacInnis

Children's Books

Antipodes Books and Beyond, Ltd.

The Big Book of Australian History

National Library of Australia

Australian Backyard Earth Scientist

<p>Discovery of metal, writing, discovering the color spectrum, fire, and magnetism</p>

100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History

Metro_Books

A Brief History of Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean Calabar

Robinson

A triumphantly toxic tome. As a dedicated Macinnis fan, I relish this latest display of erudition, story-telling and fun. One of his very best.'..Robyn Williams, Head, ABC Science Unit..Was Abraham Lincoln really as mad as a hatter?..Who poisoned Phar Lap?..Can wallpaper really kill?..Was Jack the Ripper an arsenic eater?..Painting a broad canvas, from the early Egyptians to the arsenical tube wells in Bangladesh and the Sarin gas attacks in a Tokyo subway, The Killer Bean of Calabar explores the accidental and intentional tales of poisons and their use throughout history...Historically difficult substances to trace, poisons have been used by many for their own dastardly purposes, from the Great Poisoners such as Nero and Madame de Brinvilliers to the mass gassings of World War II...But the truly great poisoners are those who make selective use of poisons to save human life, not the few who use poison to take human life.  Most of the medicines we take are themselves poisons - therapeutic only by virtue of being more deadly to our viruses than to us.  Poisons are all around us - from the plants in our gardens and lead in our homes, to the bacteria and toxins in our bodies...With ripping yarns and unusual views of famous people, Macinnis explains the whys and wherefores of poisons and poisoning.

The Killer Bean of Calabar and Other Stories

Medical Books

History

Allen And Unwin

It's True! You Eat Poison Every Day

Pharmacology

ALLEN & UNWIN (RAGG)

Not Your Usual Bushrangers

The Five Mile Press

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