Australian War Dogs: The Story of Four-Legged Diggers by Nigel Allsopp
29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Australian War Dogs introduces you to man's best friend on the battlefield, the four-legged digger. Canine troops have served alongside Australia's armed forces for decades. Valued for their loyalty, intelligence and devotion in battle, war dogs have helped relay messages through trenches and laid telep ...Show more
Woolsheds: A Visual Journey of the Australian Woolshed by Andrew Chapman
39.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The Australian woolshed is quintessential Australian architecture, steeped in our history and folklore. Blown by ferocious seasonal winds, bleached bare by hot summer sun, survivors of flood, pests and fire, these buildings are synonymous with the harshness of the surrounding landscape and a testament t ...Show more
My Droving Days : Life on the Long Paddock by Peter;Moore, Shirley Moore
24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Peter Moore left the city behind in 1952 to become part of a dying breed - a long distance drover. In My Droving Days we follow his progress through the 1950s as he rubs shoulders with the larger-than-life characters - and their dogs and horses - who trekked along the outback stock routes of western Que ...Show more
The Nullarbor Kid: Stories from My Trucking Life by Ray Gilleland
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and called them mates.' Meet Ray Gilleland, pioneer trucker in postwar Australia. A time when trucks were viewed as an 'upstart in ...Show more
Listening to Country by Ros Moriarty
24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Ros Moriarty is a white woman married to an Aboriginal man. Over the course of many visits to her husband's family, she was fascinated to discover that the older tribal women had a deep sense of happiness and purpose that transcended the abject material poverty, illness and increasing violence of their ...Show more
Abandoned Women: Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas by Lucy Frost
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'Her superb research and sympathetic reconstructions of 19th century Scotland and Australia bring to life a long-forgotten but fascinating group of women.' - Sian Rees, author of The Floating Brothel In the early 19th century crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, settli ...Show more
Women of the Land by Liz Harfull
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Making your living from the land in Australia is not for the faint-hearted. Isolation, hard physical work, long hours and the vagaries of drought, floods and fire make it a challenging environment for any farmer. But how do you cope when you are a woman in what is traditionally a man's world? Women of t ...Show more
King of the Outback: Tales from an Off-road Adventurer by Bill King
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Bill King is a modern-day explorer who took everyday Australians along for the ride. Often literally walking in the footsteps of Burke and Wills, Leichhardt, Sturt and Stuart thousands of Australians have experienced the adventure of a lifetime in Bill King's capable hands.
The Best Australian Trucking Stories by Jim Haynes
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humor, tragedy, and fascinating history of their world. The trucker's job—so vital to everyday life—makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories that will make you laugh and cry, and keep you on the edge of your seat. These weird ...Show more
Dick Smith's Population Crisis by Dick Smith
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. Australia will be deeply affected by these trends - we have the fastest growing population of any developed nation. These ...Show more
Black Swan: A Koorie Woman's Life by Eileen Harrison
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years in a mission to discovery of her talent as a painter "It's bad luck to catch a black swan." Eileen Harrison grew up at in an Aboriginal mission station in the 1950s as one of 11 children in a tight-knit, loving family. ...Show more
Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales by Graham Seal
22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are r ...Show more