The Water Dreamers: The remarkable history of our dry continent by Michael Cathcart
26.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew. From the moment the First ...Show more
Lonely for My Land : Tales of Karratha Station and the Nor'West by Tish Lees
29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
As one of the earliest properties pioneered north of the twenty-sixth parallel in the Roebourne District of the Pilbara, Karratha Station harbours a fascinating history. The 120,000 hectares, with its sixty-five kilometres of coastal boundary, was utopia to the Leslie family - who lived there from 1929- ...Show more
Lone Pine by Susie Brown, Margaret Warner
24.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
When a soldier on a World War I battlefield sends a pine cone home to his mother, he could not know that his simple gift would become a symbol of history and remembrance. Susie Brown and Margaret Warner's sensitive text is evocatively illustrated by Sebastian Ciaffaglione, and tells a story that is abou ...Show more
The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills by Sarah Murgatroyd
26.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The harrowing true story of the Burke and Willis expedition team who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost. They departed Melbourne's Royal Park in the summer of 1860, a misfit party of eighteen amateur explorers cheered on by thousands of well-wishers. Their mission: to chart a course ac ...Show more
Strine: The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder by AFFERBECK LAUDER
29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
How's your ebb tide? Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker? Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'? Here, collected in one volume, are Afferbeck Lauder's groundbreaking studies of Australian speech, Let Stalk Strine and Nose Tone Unturned. Also included are Fraffly W ...Show more
Len Beadell's Legacy: Australia's Atomic Bomb and Rocket Roads by Ian Bayly
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Combines a concise account of the history of the roads made by Len Beadell and the several men that comprised the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, with a pictorial appreciation of some of the more scenic parts of these roads.
The Kimberley: Australia's Last Great Wilderness by Victoria Laurie
59.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Located in the far north of Western Australia and covering an area more than twice the size of the UK, with a landscape made up of gorges, cave systems, waterfalls, and rainforest, the Kimberley is one of the world's last great wilderness areas. This book takes readers on a journey of discovery through ...Show more
Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance by Howard Pedersen
24.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The scene is the magnificent Kimberley outback during the late nineteenth century, and the last stage of Australia's invasion is about to be played out in the lands of the Bunuba people. Leases are marked on a map covering huge areas and vast herds of cattle and sheep spread out across Aboriginal countr ...Show more
Aussie Stories for Blokes by COMP
14.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Sheridan Voysey, Karl Faase, Kel Richards, Barry Chant, Michael Frost, John Mallison and many others share their experiences, light-hearted moments and insights on a wide range of down-to-earth topics. With everything from zany parables about possums to heroic true accounts of the front line at Gallipol ...Show more
COASTAL PLANTS: PERTH & THE SOUTH WEST REGION by RIPPEY/ROWLAND
29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A guide to over 130 plant species, from seagrasses to the beautiful Boronia alata, from mangroves of the Abralhos Islands that grow along the Perth coastline and on the islands between Dongara and Dunsborough. Superbly illustrated with line drawings and watercolour paintings of each species, Coastal Pla ...Show more