A Tear in the Soul by Amanda Webster
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
I don't believe it's possible to hurt another person without hurting oneself, an invisible hurt, a tear in the soul that allows the essence of one's humanity to leak out, like bleeding from a cut. Awareness of the loss might come infrequently or only in the dead of night or when staring at the bottom of ...Show more
The Story of Australia by Robert Lewis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
How did Australia's earliest human inhabitants reach the island continent? Which discovery ushered in a new era of immigration, prosperity, and technological advancement? How did a far-flung colony and military outpost transform into one of the wealthiest and most peaceful nations in the modern world? D ...Show more
Tropical Australia by Nick Rains
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Tropical regions aren't all palm-fringed beaches: they span some of what we think of as Australia's drier regions, proving that they are so much more than 'lush and warm.' Renowned photographer Nick Rains puts the rich diversity of Australia's tropics on spectacular display in this collection of photogr ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People - Volume 2 by Geoffrey Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An accomplishment of both great sweep and impressive detail, Geoffrey Blainey's ambitious account of this country, The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia, takes us from the gold rush to the present day. It marks the culmination of a lifelong study by one of Australia's mos ...Show more
Born in 1959?: What else happened? by Ron Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Born in Series
This is the tenth of the 1950s and the sixteenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to make y ...Show more
Consider the Clothesline - Australian Photographic Gallery by Frances Andrijich
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Photographer Frances Andrijich's unusual fascination with the clothesline has made the world just a little brighter. Paired with Susan Maushart's witty and illuminating text, these images are by turns whimsical, meditative and transgressive, and have all the intoxicating freshness of a basket of sun-dri ...Show more
High Country Cattlemen by Melanie Faith Dove
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Coffee Table Books
Dating back to the 1830s, the mountain cattlemen heritage is one of the oldest forms of agriculture in Victoria and New South Wales. The cattlemen teach the now seventh generation the intimate secrets of the mountains, rivers and seasons as they tackle rigorous river crossings and mountainous terrain on ...Show more
Bushranger Tracks Discover The Historic Sites Of Our Wild Colonial Past by Powell Greg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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Melbourne: A City of Stories by Victoria Museum
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Melbourne: a city of stories grew out of Melbourne Museum's permanent exhibition, 'The Melbourne Story'. That makes it a selective history: one based on objects - things that have survived. The idea that objects can give rise to stories comes as no surprise to anyone who's ever dug up a shard of old chi ...Show more
Ned Kelly: A Short Life by Ian Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Every nation has a lovable bandit/rebel/folk hero in the mould of Robin Hood and Rob Roy. But Ned Kelly is an uncomfortable hero - he killed policemen, robbed banks, stole horses from squatters...But he became a champion of the rural underclass and an enemy of arrogant officialdom. Ned Kelly was of Iris ...Show more
Australia: A Panoramic Gift Book by Steve Parish
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australia from the Heart Ser.
Captures the magic of Australia its tropical rainforests to alpine peaks, the unique and abundant wildlife, and the colourful, friendly people. Stunning reproductions on fine paper bound into a laminated hard cover.
Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People by Karl-Erik Sveiby; Tex Skuthorpe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
In this unique journey into traditional Aboriginal life and culture, a European business-management professor and an Aboriginal elder collaborate to create a powerful and original model that western societies can use to build environmentally sustainable organizations, communities, and ecologies base ...Show more