Waltzing Matilda: Australia's Accidental Anthem by W Benjamin Lindner
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Kidman The Forgotten King by Jill Bowen
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
As a barely literate yough of 13, Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history. During his lifetime he acquired a legendary reputation both at home and abroad. This is the story of hi ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
55.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia by Melissa Harper
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Australians have always loved to step out in nature, whether off-track or along a marked route. Bushwalking – an organised long-distance walk in rugged terrain that requires maps and camping equipment, or a family day out – is one of our most popular pastimes. This landmark book, now updated, was the fi ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories by Bill Marsh
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the green fields of Tasmania to the vast red sands of Simpson Desert.The unique characters of the outback will touch your heart as Swampy presents all the drama and delight of life i ...Show more
Gold Digger: Chasing the mother lode in a man's world by Tyler Mahoney
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
"If you haven't seen a Discovery Channel gold-hunting show, you might picture a gold prospector as a relic of the Wild West: a TNT-toting, bearded old man wildly swinging a pick on the hunt for nuggets, guided by old maps, superstition, legends and instinct. It's still predominantly a man's world, and s ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: A Life in Pictures and Words from the Banjo Paterson Family Archive by Alistair Campbell
49.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A stunning collection from the archive of Australia's greatest storyteller, Banjo Paterson. Notebooks, illustrations, photographs, letters and transcripts of some of our best-loved songs, poems and stories have been brought together for the first time. Banjo's great-grandson and sole executor of the po ...Show more
Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller. The bold, the bad and the slightly mad . . . in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags, Jim Haynes brings us fifteen larger-than-life Aussies - some of the greatest, and most unknown, ne'er do wells from Austral ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more
Lawson (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the ho ...Show more