Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Great Australian Stories
Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback. If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. this collection of more than sixty s ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
A Life in The Saddle: Adventures of Legendary Horseman, the Kokotunga Kid by Alwyn Torenbeek
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'It doesn't matter if there are four thousand people watching or just four - you're a horseman, roughrider, entertainer. At that moment, rodeo has you bitten and it doesn't let you go. You just want another ride. I remember them all and how it all started.' Alywn Torenbeek's - the Kokotunga Kid - left h ...Show more
Margaret River Stories by GUY JENNINGS
59.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The publication of Margaret River Stories brings to fruition a lengthy but enjoyable exercise conducted mainly by historical society member, Guy Jennings, who tirelessly interviewed local people and families to produce many of the the fascinating stories included in the book. Together with these family ...Show more
The Best Australian Bush Stories by Jim Haynes
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond ...an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
In Search of Captain Moonlite: Bushranger, Conman, Warrior, Lunatic by Paul Terry
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
When a masked and cloaked bandit robbed the bank at a small gold town in 1869 he created the legend of Captain Moonlite, the gun-toting man of God who enthralled and appalled the nation for more than a decade.Real name Andrew George Scott, he is remembered as bushranger, conman, warrior and lunatic. In ...Show more
Amazing Aussie Bastards by LAWRENCE MONEY
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Amazing bastard (colloquial), n: a bloke who does stuff that other bastards wouldn't try in a month of Sundays We've all met them, or at least read about them - men who drive faster, climb higher, build and invent and triumph over impossible odds. Journalist Lawrence Money has assembled a collection of ...Show more
Norfolk Island: History, People, Environment, Language by MUHLHAUSLER, PETER
35.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
ANZAC Biscuits (HB) by Phil Cummings
24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Rachel is in the kitchen, warm and safe. Her father is in the trenches, cold and afraid. When Rachel makes biscuits for her father, she adds the love, warmth and hope that he needs. This is a touching story of a family torn apart by war but brought together through the powerful simplicity of Anzac Biscu ...Show more
Terra Australis: Text Classics by Matthew Flinders
12.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Text Classics
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and com ...Show more
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
12.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more