2008 Prize
- Winners
- Tom Griffiths for Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
- Robert Kenny for The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
- Short-listed
- John Fitzgerald for Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia
- Philip Jones for Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
- Paul Rudd, Stephen Amezdroz, Tony Wright, Wain Fimeri and Matthew Thomason for Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
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