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  • Darwin 1869: The First Year in Photographs by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Darwin 1869: The First Year in Photographs

    This is the story of the birth of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory.At first called Palmertston, Darwin is the only pre-Federation capital city in Australia which is young enough to have been photographed since its earliest days. When George...
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  • Darwin 1869: The Second Northern Territory Expedition by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Darwin 1869: The Second Northern Territory Expedition

    Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn.The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the governance of South Australia. Land was sold to investors, unseen and unsurveyed and in an unknown location. The sales raised the funds needed to...
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  • Darwin: End of an Era - 1900-1910 by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Darwin: End of an Era - 1900-1910

    Author: Derek PughISBN-10: 1763667138ISBN-13: 9781763667136Publisher: Derek PughLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d
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  • Darwin: Growth of a City - The 1880s by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Darwin: Growth of a City - The 1880s

    The 1880s started with a boom in Palmerston and the Top End. South Australian investors flocked to put their money into gold mines, sugar and coffee plantations, and the pastoral industry. Cattle stations bigger than a British county were carved out of the bush....
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  • Darwin: Origin of a City - The 1870s by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Darwin: Origin of a City - The 1870s

    A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming policeman. An out-of-luck miner drowns himself in the town's well.Once called Palmerston, the City of Darwin began in the 1870s. Darwin was a pioneer's paradise:...
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  • Darwin: Survival of a City - The 1890s by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Darwin: Survival of a City - The 1890s

    The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia's Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of mining, pastoralism, and agriculture suffered from downturn, disease and distance. The South Australians had had enough of their 'white elephant' and,...
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  • Escape Cliffs: The First Northern Territory Expedition 1864-66 by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Escape Cliffs: The First Northern Territory Expedition 1864-66

    This is a true story of greed, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and extraordinary bushmanship, amid government bungling and Aboriginal resistance, during South Australia's first attempt at colonising their Northern Territory in 1864.The South Australians wanted their state...
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  • Fort Dundas: The British in North Australia 1824-29 by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Fort Dundas: The British in North Australia 1824-29

    Fort Dundas was the first outpost of Europeans in Australia's north. It was a British fortification manned by soldiers, marines and convicts, and built by them on remote Melville Island in 1824. It lasted until 1829, when it was abandoned and left to the...
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  • Fort Wellington: The British in North Australia 1827-29 by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Fort Wellington: The British in North Australia 1827-29

    The Iwaidja woman, her belly opened by a bayonet, slipped below the dark water. Her 6-year-old daughter, Reveral, watched in terror. Her baby sister was already dead, hit by a slug in the first volley or drowned, but a young man lying on the...
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  • Hanged by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Hanged

    Ten men were legally executed in Australia's Northern Territory.Some were hanged on their own Country, their deaths intended as warnings. Others were buried behind the walls of Darwin's Fannie Bay Gaol in unmarked graves and forgotten.They were Indigenous tribesmen, Chinese gold miners, and European...
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  • Port Essington: The British in North Australia 1838-49 by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Port Essington: The British in North Australia 1838-49

    For many of the Royal Marines sent to Port Essington, life was a living hell of malaria, scurvy, termites, shipwrecks, cyclones, boredom, isolation and death. For one man, it was the 'most useless, ill-managed hold in Her Majesty's dominions' which deserved 'all the abuse...
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  • Schoolies by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Schoolies

    It's Schoolies Week in Bali. Ras follows Jess to the party town of Kuta and finds that protecting his girl is easier said than done. He also has to learn how to handle his newfound freedom as an adult. What could possibly go wrong?Author:...
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  • Tambora by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Tambora

    In the best tradition of Paul Theroux and J. Maarten Troost, comes Derek Pugh's torrid tale of Sumbawa, and his ascent of the iconic volcano Mt. Tambora, whose 1815 eruption did indeed change the world. Pugh's account of the eruption and its aftermath is...
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  • Tammy Damulkurra by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Tammy Damulkurra

    "a landmark in Australian literature" - Maurice Rioli, MLA Fifteen year old Tammy Damulkurra lives in Maningrida - a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. Tammy has friends and likes the disco and thinks at last she has her first boyfriend but he cheats...
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  • The Owner's Guide to the Teenage Brain by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    The Owner's Guide to the Teenage Brain

    "This book is for teenagers and anyone who knows one...""If you only buy one survival guide for the teenage years, make it this one...""This book is] accessible, entertaining, humorous, and equally helpful to parents and teachers" This updated second edition of The Owner's Guide...
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  • The Ragged Thirteen: Territory Bushrangers by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    The Ragged Thirteen: Territory Bushrangers

    In 1886, a notorious gang of horsemen wreaked havoc on the Overlanders' Trail that stretched across the Northern Territory into the wild Kimberley region. They stole cattle with audacity, brazenly held up pubs and cattle stations, and drove a herd of stolen horses with...
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  • Turn Left at the Devil Tree by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Turn Left at the Devil Tree

    Accompanied by Turkey, his little 'hunting' dog, Derek Pugh founded several outstation schools in the most remote parts of Arnhem Land and gained a rare insight into a traditional way of life which has been witnessed by only a few outsiders. By turns reflective,...
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  • Twenty to the Mile: The Overland Telegraph Line by Pugh, Derek
    Derek Pugh

    Twenty to the Mile: The Overland Telegraph Line

    The greatest engineering problem facing Australia - the tyranny of distance - had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the sheep-farming colony of South Australia.In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the centre...
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