Legends of the Outback by Marie Mahood
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Outback writer Marie Mahood is the author of the much loved Icing on the Damper and A Bunch of Strays. In the 1960's she raised cattle and kids on the world's most remote cattle station, Mongrel Downs, in the Tanami Desert.
The Diggers of Colditz by Jack Champ; Colin Burgess
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany's infamous 'escape-proof' wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack Champ and other prisoners tirelessly carried out their campaign to escape from t ...Show more
Against the Grain: Fourteen Farmers Adapt to Climate Change by Bill Hampel
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
14 Farmers tell how they are adapting to climate change. Can we humans simply ignore the fires, floods and increased deaths climate change is bringing? Fourteen farmers - those bearing the brunt of climate change - who accept the science, tell how they have observed or recorded the unpredictable weather ...Show more
Amazing Facts About Australia by Karin Cox
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Amazing Facts
Welcome to the Steve Parish Amazing Facts range. The series presents informative facts, illustrations and extraordinary photographs to help you learn about this remarkable continent and its social and natural history.
A Nation In The Making: Australia at the Dawn of the Modern Era by Alasdair MacGregor
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Bus Plus Publishing Ser.
The output of the two largest photographic studio's in Australia in the late 19th century were bought & placed in storage. It became known as the Tyrell Collection. Largely unseen ever-since it is now stored at the Powerhouse museum and has been made available to Australian Geographic. This unique c ...Show more
The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by Ken Gelder
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, ...Show more
The Future of the Fringe - The Crisis in Peri-Urban Planning by Michael Buxton; Andrew Butt
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world's most vulnerable areas. Although they are often thought of simply as land awaiting development, these landscapes retain important natural resources and make valuable contributions to agriculture, water use, biodiversity conservation, landscape preservation an ...Show more
Great Expectations Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia by Patricia Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Fire - A Brief History (Second Edition) by Pyne, Stephen J
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne?named by Science magazine as ?the world?s leading authority on the history of fire??explores the surpri ...Show more
Black Summer: Stories of loss, courage and community from the 2019-2020 bushfires by Rowland Michael
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Told by ABC journalists who were on the ground and broadcasting during our worst ever fire season, spearheaded by Michael Rowland The bushfires that burnt across Australia from June 2019 to February
T Robinson & Co by Ken Arnold
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A history of the agricultural implement manufacturers accompanied by advertising, historical photographs