The Fierce Country : True stories from Australia's unsettled heart, 1830 to today by Stephen Orr
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Fierce Country holds no malice, but neither pity. It just sits, and bakes, and waits. We do the rest. We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers. Weaken it, and ourselves, when we leave mountains of asbestos to blow away in the wind. Misunderstand it when we see it as nothing more than a resource ...Show more
National Parks by Australian Geographic
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Lose yourself in some of Australia's most remarkable wild areas as Australian Geographic takes you through 50 of their favourite national parks. There are 726 national parks in Australia. They cover 35,074,410 square kilometres of land, more than 4 per cent of the total area of the country. Australia re ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations by Brian Butler, John Bond
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was taken.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century. Sorr ...Show more
The Way We Were Australia in the last century by Alan J Whiticker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian life has seen many changes in the last century. We have gone from scattered colonies to federated nation, from bush pioneers to suburbanites, and along the way there have been fascinating shifts in how we dress, eat, travel, entertain ourselves and bring up our families. This compact edition ...Show more
Victoria and Melbourne:The Vibrant City: The vibrant city by New Holland Publishers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Melbourne and Victoria, the southern jewel, is the city and state that offers so much from amazing restaurants and wine to incredible beauty and stunning coastlines. This book showcases what Victoria has to offer from the stunning CBD and its laneways of great food and bars to the sporting events and th ...Show more
Through Ice & Fire by Sarah Laverick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The wild and desolate expanses of Antarctica have been the setting for many famous exploits and misadventures: a place where every decision has life-or-death consequences. The legendary tales of tragedy and triumph experienced by explorers such as Shackleton, Mawson and Scott continue to inspire to thi ...Show more
Pioneer Women of the Outback Bush by Isaacs, Jennifer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
This book is a fascinating insight into the daily lives of women from a variety of backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Chinese, Indian and German woman. Pioneer Women provides a unique portrait of how women set up and ran their remote bush hom ...Show more
In Living Memory by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-In-Chief)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The story of Australia in the middle decades of the 20th century – from 1930 to 1980 – is one of dramatic contrast; of dark days and light – of economic struggle, anxiety, war and sacrifice, giving way from the 1950s onwards to prosperity, plenty and confidence.Australian Geographic’s In Living Memory s ...Show more
British India, White Australia - Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947 by Kama Maclean
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Hanging Rock: A History by Mcconville Chris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Hanging Rock Reserve is a popular recreation arena, north of Melbourne. At its heart stands the Rock itself, a massive volcanic outcrop rising above undulating forest and farmland. Hanging Rock is celebrated as the site of outdoor concerts by popular music legends such as Bruce Springsteen and Leonard C ...Show more