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Australian Women Pilots: Amazing True Stories of Women in the Air by Kathy Mexted
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
There's a lot of aeroplanes and aviators down in that water. Thank God I'm not one of them.From pioneering and outback flights to delivering Spitfires or tackling the jungles of New Guinea, Australian Women Pilots tells of ten Australians with extraordinary stories.Women have been flying since the early ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer; Sue Smethurst
$32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empire Within minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to h ...Show more
Outback Governesses by Paula Heelan
$9.99 AUD
$29.99 (66% off)
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Outback Governesses is collection of eye-opening stories about fourteen governesses who drop in, Mary Poppins-like, to educate children in Australia's remotest rural areas and in return receive a bush education of their own... The governesses are often young women from urban backgrounds, and they become ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda: Australia's Accidental Anthem by W Benjamin Lindner
$32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The Naked Farmer by Ben Brooksby
$29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Ben Brooksby is a fifth-generation farmer from St Helens Plains in Western Victoria. When he was younger, he struggled with anxiety and other mental health issues, as so many others in rural communities do. A simple social media post helped him to turn things around. After he shared a photo to Instagram ...Show more
Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
An original and riveting biography of two of the most singular women Australia has ever seen.Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Wes ...Show more
The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History by Meredith Lake
$32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, a ...Show more
Still in the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Laden with trig poles, theodolites - and porridge - Beadell and his team built roads, laid out town sites and undertook an enormous survey programme in order to prepare a test launching area in one of the most isolated parts of the world. The problems ranged from taking astrofixes in a cloudy sky and be ...Show more
Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage
$39.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more