More Great Australian Outback Yarns by Bill Marsh
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.
Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
45.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two ...Show more
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia by Beauty in the Bush Collective
49.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A grit and resilience that's both bolstering and invigorating. In their first book, the Beauty in the Bush Collective share the homes, work and play that make up the lives of those living in the bus ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
Railways and Australian Identity by Keith Hallett
24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Railway lines are typically shown on maps as permanent, however many lines are now abandoned. But the experiences of rail trips to distant places by train are, to many, fondly remembered events. While this book acknowledges the essential economic effects of the rail network, it also celebrates the human ...Show more
Great Australian Ambos Stories by Bill Marsh
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Yeah, while some of my stories are quite gory, others can be very enlightening. Though, in hindsight, the best outcomes are when the patient pulls through. It's then that you know you've done your job, and you get a bit of a buzz out of that. Put the sirens on and get ready to hit the road, because fact ...Show more
Of Marsupials and Men by Alistair Paton
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A brilliantly entertaining history of Australia's weird and wonderful natural scientists 'A fascinating history of Australia's wildlife and the wilder men and women who shot, studied and saved it ... Compelling and entertaining.' -David Hunt Of Marsupials and Men recounts the fascinating and often hilar ...Show more
Together We Can: Everyday Australians Doing Amazing Things To Give Our Planet a Future by Claire O'Rourke
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Inspiring stories about people around Australia who are taking action on climate change, helping create a better future for our children and for the planet, while at the same time deepening connections with each other. Millions of Australians are quietly freaking out about climate change, and Claire O'R ...Show more
Lawson (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the ho ...Show more
The New Ringer by Roland Breckwoldt
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A shy young man from the suburban outskirts takes himself to Gulf Country on a 1960s boys own adventure that changes his life forever 'A beautifully written - yet stunningly different - memoir of a young misfit. Absolutely loved it. - Ray Martin 'We can give you a start. You will need a six foot by fo ...Show more
Rachel: Brumby hunter, medicine woman, bushrangers' ally and troublemaker for good . . . the remarkable pioneering life of Rachel Kennedy by Jeff McGill
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Rachel Kennedy stood out on a wild frontier dominated by men . . . her extraordinary and unputdownable pioneering story is told for the first time 'Just a girl, but when it came to chasing wild horses nobody questioned Rachel Kennedy's skill in a saddle. What raised eyebrows was the type of saddle she u ...Show more
Australia's Great Depression: How a Nation Shattered by the Great War Survived the Worst Economic Crisis it has Ever Faced by Joan Beaumont
49.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression. Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great De ...Show more