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
Old-Timers by Sandy Thorne
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
In Old-Timers jillaroo cum opal miner cum bush humourist, Sandy Thorne, has assembled 20 vital snapshots of Australian life that tantalise with their energy, originality and genuine pioneering spirit. Meet Jenny Marshall, contract musterer, ex-amateur jockey, known as 'F...kin' Jenny' after her favourit ...Show more
Australians: Origins to Eureka: Volume 1 by Thomas Keneally
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Reading Level: very good
The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
Great Australian Historic Hotels by Barry Stone
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
On Christmas Eve in 1882, an impromptu game of cricket was organised between the touring English Cricket team and a local side in the grounds of Rupertswood, a 50-room Italianate mansion in Sunbury, a 30-minute drive north of Melbourne. At dinner that night Rupertswood's owner, Lady Janet Clark, marked ...Show more
Tasmanian Aborigines: A History Since 1803 by Lyndall Ryan
35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'Lyndall Ryan's new account of the extraordinary and dramatic story of the Tasmanian Aborigines is told with passion and eloquence. It is a book that will inform and move anyone with an interest in Australian history.' - Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania..'A powerful and insightful histor ...Show more
Beyond Reasonable Drought by Don Watson
24.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
There has been nothing like it in living memory. Theories about cycles and seasons struggle to explain it. It is beyond reasonable drought. Early this century, a group of photographers crisscrossed the nation, and captured a seismic shift in the way Australians were living their lives. Caught in these p ...Show more
The Story of Australia: The Epic Journey from Gondwanaland to the Present Day by Vanessa Collingridge
49.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
This stunningly produced book draws together a complete history of Australia from the geological super-continent of Gondwanaland to its modern incarnation as one of the most vibrant countries in the world. With its combination of pull-out facsimiles of original documents, sumptuous illustrations, detail ...Show more
Eucalypts: A Celebration by John Wrigley
65.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'The tallest and most stately trees I ever saw in any nobleman's ground in England cannot excel in beauty those which nature presented to our view.' First fleet surgeon Arthur Bowes Eucalypts are a familiar part of our landscape and an integral part of the Australian identity. We have farmed them and us ...Show more
Complete Book of Australian Weather by Richard Whitaker
39.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Everything you ever wanted to know about Australia's extraordinarily diverse weather, from cyclones in the sweltering tropics to the snow of the alpine regions From the most mundane daily decisions to matters of life and death, the weather affects everyone's lives intimately--even Australians. Dra ...Show more
Australia - Memories of Times Past by Various (selected by the Federation of Children's Book Groups)
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
This beautiful and informative volume offers a new way of looking at the sights and social history of Australia in the first decade of the 20th century. Paintings which form the core of this book are by the famous Australian artist Percy Spence and are accompanied by illuminating text placing them in th ...Show more
The Shorter History of Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport, the suspicion of the tall po ...Show more