Bush Doctors by Annabelle Brayley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Imagine yourself critically injured or seriously ill in the middle of nowhere. You'd be hoping like hell there was a doctor nearby to take charge; someone resourceful, who'd think quickly and stay calm under pressure; someone who could, if necessary, take charge from a distance. You'd want to be in the ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
Australian Geographic: Australia Gone Wild by Australian Geographic
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
For more than 30 years, Australian Geographic has been showcasing Australias unique natural history through the words and images of the nations finest writers and photographers. This brand new 224-page hard cover compendium brings together over 40 of the best stories spanning the natural world from the ...Show more
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected Elder and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art and dance, storytelling, and cu ...Show more
Best We Forget - The War for White Australia, 1914-18 by Peter Cochrane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The preparation for a coming war and ultimately the commitment to that war was driven by White Australia's sense of vulnerability in the Pacific, by various nightmare scenarios in which Australia could be left to fend for itself, unaided by Britain, and by the determination to have racial purity at almo ...Show more
Destination Australia by Ken Duncan
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Panographs Publishing Ser.
Australia is a continent of rare contrast, of turquoise seas and red-ochre rockforms, of luxuriant rainforests and sparkling white beaches. In this selection of spectacular images, world-renowned photographer Ken Duncan turns his camera on the varied landscapes of his home nation. The result is a portra ...Show more
Mad Dogs and Thunderbolts by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Ned Kelly’s tin helmet looms large over Australia’s bushranging past, but what about all the unsung outlaws of the Australian bush? What about Black Caesar, who escaped his tyrannous British overlords four times and indeed invented the great Australian tradition of bushranging? Or Mad Dog Morgan who set ...Show more
Solomon's Noose: True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart by Steve Harris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggl ...Show more
Lasseter's Last Ride - An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
With Foreword by Herbert Basedow, M.D., B.Sc., author of The Australian Aboriginal, extracts from Lasseter's Diary and Letters and photographs of the 1930 Expedition. Morning Post (London) - "Perhaps the greatest of Australia's real life epics." Otago Daily Times (NZ) - "One almost finds it difficult ...Show more
Putting Australia on the Map by Carole Wilkinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. You would think it would be easy to find, but it stayed hidden from everyone but its First People for a very long time. Australia's coastline was discovered piece by piece. Mapping the coastline was a task that took hundreds of years. Se ...Show more
Henry Lawson: Great Australian Storyteller by Henry Lawson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Henry Lawson was a consummate weaver of tales. His characters come to life with his colourful, often affectionately humorous, narratives. His themes are tinged with bitter realism; droughts, poverty, loss and suffering. His deep feelings for others lives as a legacy to us all, to feel gratitude and appr ...Show more