Great Australian Working Dog Stories by Angela Goode
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: GREAT AUSTRALIAN STORIES
Uncomplaining, tough and loyal, they are the only workers that never go on strike or hit the grog. Working dogs deserve every bit of praise they get! With infectious enthusiasm, they leap on to the back of the ag bike to start the day's work. You'll get no argument from people on the land that these t ...Show more
Great Australian CWA Stories by Bill Marsh
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Put your hand up if you think the CWA is a tea-and-scones group of women who sit around tables and chat away. Wrong! Well, they do make the best jams and scones in the whole world, but as these stories reveal, these big-hearted, fun-loving, practical women are the backbone of communities throughout Aust ...Show more
Beyond the Brink: Peter Andrews' Radical Vision for a Sustainable Australian Landscape by Peter Andrews; Ian Kiernan (Foreword by); Ken Turner (Foreword by)
35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Ever controversial, Peter Andrews, described as a prophet in his own land, once again challenges farmers, governments (federal and state), environmentalists and scientists to face the consequences of their actions. Unless attitudes change now, our lands, forests and rivers, flora and fauna that we have ...Show more
Great Australian Railway Stories by Bill Marsh
24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Come aboard for the ride with Swampy and his larrikin-spirited railroad pioneers as you travel into Australia's wonderful and extraordinary railroading past. In these frustrating days of semi-automated electric trains, it is hard to remember the smell of coal smoke, the hiss of steam, and sting of cinde ...Show more
Great Australian Shearing Stories by Bill Marsh
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Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Great Australian S.
A selection of stories from shearers in South Australia New South Wales and Queensland. In late 1999 Bill 'Swampy' Marsh began to collect shearing stories. When he was interviewed by ABC Radio broadcaster Colin Munro on SUMMER ALL OVER dozens of people phoned in with their own tales. This book is a coll ...Show more
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can be Saved by Peter Andrews; John Williams (Foreword by); Gerry Harvey (Foreword by)
29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He ...Show more
Lost for Words : A Collection of Words and Phrases That Have Drifted Out of Everyday Usage by Hugh Lunn
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Category: AUSTRALIANA
Strike a light! Things are crook in Tallarook! Hugh Lunn has been collecting old words and phrases that are no longer a part of our everyday language, and has brought them together in a book in a totally unique, informative and humorous way. Divided into themes (such as Mother's advice, Things about the ...Show more
The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women: Twenty-one Pioneering Women Whose Stories Changed History by Susanna De Vries
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Category: AUSTRALIANA
Women of grit and courage, women of integrity, resilience and resourcefulness. They faced different tests - harshness as pioneers in outback Australia; the turmoils of war - but when encountering adversity, even death, each proved her mettle.
Rare Trades by Mark Thomson
24.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Author/photographer Mark Thomson delves into the history of rare trades - and the lives of the tradesmen who preserve them - to uncover a wealth of special tools, unique traditions and secrets. The nature of work is changing. We no longer use our hands to make things. Human hands, capable of making obje ...Show more
Beneath Whose Hand by R. Williams
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Category: AUSTRALIANA
R.M Williams, bushman, grazier, folk hero, raconteur-in fact one of the great legends of our time. This is his story.He left home in his teens and went bush. For months he trekked through the deserts and ranges of Central Australia as the camel-man of a two-man expedition. He then worked as a drover. Th ...Show more