Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests by Anna Krien
29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of bitter struggle. Sawmillers and police face off with protesters, while political games are played in the courts and parliaments. At stake is the future of old-growth forests, of the logging industry - and of the people on both sides. Anna Krien brings to lif ...Show more
Australian Encounters by Shane Maloney
24.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
What happened when Bob Hawke locked horns with Frank Sinatra, when Errol Flynn interviewed Fidel Castro, and when Norman Gunston joined Frank Zappa on stage? Australian Encounters is a one-of-a-kind book, written by Shane Maloney and illustrated by Chris Grosz. With abundant humour, it tells of 50 true ...Show more
The Great Australian Book of Limericks by Jim Haynes
22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Everyone knows at least one limerick. Here are all the limericks you can remember, and many you can't recall but wished you couldfrom childhood ones to some very adult ones. Jim Haynes has arranged more than a thousand limericks according to typewitty and whimsical, childish and charming, linguistic and ...Show more
The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas
59.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The Search for R.H. Mathews is about the life and work of the renowned 19th century surveyor turned ethnologist, whose studies of Aboriginal Australia were path-breaking and quite controversial. His childhood in Goulburn meant that he grew up with Aboriginal children as playmates, so when he began his o ...Show more
First Australians: An Illustrated History by Rachel Perkins
89.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
First Australian's is a landmark illustrated history of Australia that accompanies a major nine-part television series broadcast on SBS This is the story of the violent clash of culture, religion and ideas at the heart of Australia's history.
Our Stories: Australian Flags and Emblems by Karen Tayleur
17.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Our Stories
The story of Australia is told by the flags and the emblems we see around us. They display our past, our cultural heritage, our national treasures and the amazing diversity of each state. Australian Flags and Emblems is a fascinating window on our rich history and what we value.
Nurses of the Outback by Annabelle Brayley
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The work of a nurse is challenging enough, but when you add a remote location, the stakes are so much higher. Meet fifteen courageous people who prove that the outback runs on nurse power. There's Anna, who is on duty as the fury of Cyclone Yasi tears through inland Queensland; Maureen in outback New So ...Show more
Bush Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. These remarkable women patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive. They drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are n ...Show more
At the Very Heart: 100 Years in Remote Australia by Storry Walton
49.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Among all the 19th and 20th century stories of settlement around the world, Australia's experience of its vast interior was one of the toughest. Few environments resisted the incursion of settlers so implacably and were so routinely perilous and fatal. It bred a sinewy people, hardened by severity and t ...Show more
The Ballad of Les Darcy by Peter FitzSimons
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
"Put Les Darcy in a uniform and the men of Australia will march to hell behind him." That was the message Australia's great 'Blacksmith Boxer' was getting, as debate about conscription raged in the middle of World War 1. The problem was that Les Darcy didn't want to march at the fore of such a processio ...Show more
Outback Stations by Evan McHugh
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperback trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. and grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. and my country, Australia.'This is big country, the outback ...Show more
Great Australian Ute Stories by John Bryant
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A bumper collection of hilarious and heartwarming Australian stories collected by ute-aficionado John Bryant. We invented it. We love it. The ute is a national icon alongside the pie and sauce. It is the very symbol of our resourceful ingenuity. No matter what you drive, this collection of ute yarns wil ...Show more