Survival For Beginners by Colin Towell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Whether you're planning an adventure or just want to learn outdoor skills, Survival for Beginners is the perfect book for you. Learn the basics - from picking the best tent for your expedition to knowing how to pitch it - with clear step-by-step illustrations. Find out why not to camp beneath a tree, h ...Show more
Voyage of the Southern Sun : An Amazing Solo Journey Around the World by Michael Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
With limited flying experience, no support team, and only basic instruments in his tiny single-engine flying boat, Smith risked his life to make modern aviation history. His historic flight lasted seven months, and took him from Australia all around the world. In 2016 he was named "Australian Geographic ...Show more
Great Australian Stories: Outback Towns and Pubs by Bill Marsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
The people you'll meet will touch your heart as Swampy brings to life all the drama and delight of life in outback Australia. There's the story of Frederick Aloysius Millard, the only dog ever to become a member of a Citizens Club in Australia, thanks to the vote of a woman who was sure she'd been intro ...Show more
Buckley's Chance (PB) by Garry Linnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. e was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England, ...Show more
People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.
A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal by Megan Davis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of Australia. This essential Quarterly Essay seeks to do two things: to make the strongest, clearest possible case for the Voice to Parliament and to draw out the significance and the promise of this reform - ...Show more
Currowan: A story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer by Bronwyn Adcock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed worldCurrowan is the gripping account of the massive fire that engulfed the south coast of New South Wales in 2019-20. Ignited by a lightning strike near the Currowan state forest and bur ...Show more
Working Dogs: A photo documentary of the Australian working dog by Andrew Chapman, Melanie Faith Dove
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's favourite book on working dogs is back!
Australia 1872 - How Bernhard Holtermann Turned Gold into a Unique Photographic Treasure by Christoph Hein
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- How a lump of gold went down in photographic history- Previously unpublished UNESCO World Heritage-listed photos- More than 150 impressive photosBernhard Otto Holtermann emigrated from Hamburg to Australia in 1858 as a destitute young man, where, in 1872, he unearthed the largest lump of gold in the w ...Show more
Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Second Edition by Arthur Bill
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia has a place on the work table of every Australian student, on the coffee table of every Australian home and on the desk of every Australian political representative.' Senator Patrick Dodson The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia is a unique tool for expl ...Show more
100 Weirdest Tales from Across Australia by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springi ...Show more