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Everyone but Phar Lap: Face to Face with the Best of Australian Sport by Peter Fitzsimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sports/Fitness
Since 1991, Peter Fitzsimons has interviewed just about every figure from post-war Australian sport, and turned these interviews into profiles that together provide a chronicle of the country's greatest years in sport.
Fair Go, Sport by Peter FitzSimons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sports/Fitness
Fitzy at his passionate best with chest-puffing tales of great sportsmanship and fair play. The idea for this book is simple. In the year when Australian cricketers have colluded to nakedly cheat, when attendance rates for all of soccer, rugby union and rugby league have either drifted or roared south, ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
In the Trenches of Hell On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austra ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter Fitzsimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Peter tells this iconic tale in GALLIPOLI. History comes to life with P ...Show more
Gotta Love This Country!: Great Stories from Around Australia to Lift Your Heart, Make You Laugh and Puff Out Your Chest by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sports/Fitness
A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style.
Gotta Love This Country!: Great Stories of Good Sporting Deeds from Around Australia by Peter FitzSimons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sports/Fitness
In his very popular Saturday column, the 'Fitzy Files', Peter FitzSimons usually writes about famous sports men and women. But from time to time he throws in stories taken from grassroots sport and daily life. These are heartwarming and generous tales that makes us all puff up our chests with the pride ...Show more
James Cook: Master Mariner Navigator and Cartographer, the Man Behind the Myth by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | 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
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
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.
Little Theories of Life by Peter FitzSimons
$16.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Why does the dominant partner in any sexual relationship usually sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door? Is there a direct relationship between the length of hemlines and the state of the national economy? Are odd numbers evil? And why do drivers with hats drive 40 kilometres per hour slower than ...Show more
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
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
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
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