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
Who Needs the ABC? Why Taking It For Granted is No Longer An Option by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. Its staffing levels have been cut. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with a succession of political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercia ...Show more
Growing Up in Country Australia by Rick Morton
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Growing Up
Black Inc.'s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country Growing Up in Country Australia is a fresh, modern look at country Australia. There are stories of joy, adventure, nostalgia, connection to nature and freedom, but also more grim tales - of drought, fires, mouse plagues and isolation. From ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
39.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Yarns: Volume 1 by Bill Marsh
29.99 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. When he'd finished playing, a solemn silence fell as Brian and the gravediggers stared down into that three-quarter-filled hole. 'I must a ...Show more
Red Tail Skies: A big book of Qantas Stories by Jim Eames
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Heroic, hilarious and sometimes just plain weird . . . Jim Eames shares great Qantas stories from World War II to the age of the jumbo and beyond. 'These are stories of passion and dedication, of risk and resilience, of excellence and Australian larrikinism, of inventiveness and determination.' Captain ...Show more
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
Lawson by Grantlee Kieza
39.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
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 hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent ...Show more
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
39.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than ha ...Show more
Firestorm by Greg Mullins
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Combines thrilling stories of what it's like to be on the front line of Australia's first giga-fire with the hard truths of human-caused climate change, and what we do about it. Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Bl ...Show more
Mad Dogs and Thunderbolts by Ben Pobjie
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Ned Kelly’s tin helmet looms large over Australia’s bushranging past, but what about all the unsung outlaws of the Australian bush? What about Black Caesar, who escaped his tyrannous British overlords four times and indeed invented the great Australian tradition of bushranging? Or Mad Dog Morgan who set ...Show more