Flavours Of The South West

$24.95 AUD

Category: Local Area

Busselton Heritage Trail

$10.00 AUD

Category: Local Area

Surfing Margaret River by Terri Sharpe

$39.99 AUD

Category: Local Area

A guide to surfing south Western Australia, from Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin. Over 50 spots, directions on how to find them, best wind, tide, swell conditions.

Whale Sharks - Giants of Ningaloo Reef

$45.00 AUD

Category: Local Area

Many Maps - Charting Two Cultures: First Nations Australians and European Settlers in Western Australia by Bill Bunbury; Jenny Bunbury

$29.99 AUD

Category: Local Area

The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart a sense of self and guide one's relationship to the natural world. Australia's First Nations mapped their world in terms of a spiritual and environmental relationship to country and an animate sense of being. The maps in European heads often explored ways to obtain wealth from the Australian earth.  Many Maps traces both misunderstandings, and sometimes sensitive understandings of land and culture in a continent that we both inhabit. ...Show more

A Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Local Government - An Architectural and Political History of Margaret River by Linton Hodsdon

$30.00 AUD

Category: Local Area

The Guide is an authoritative account of how Margaret River evolved from a bridge ( built in 1894 AD ) over a river, in an unfashionable corner of the western spiral arm of the British Empire, into an international icon of fine wine, good food and environmental awareness ¿and particularly how the last 5 years of the 20thcentury changed the place forever ( or atleast for the 50 years of the Coles supermarket carpark lease ! ) or until good governance is won.This fascinating and riveting story tells of the great efforts the people of a small village applied to building a sustainable community from the sleepy little backwater of the 1960s into an internationally famous town in the 1990s, and of the Bureaucratic Raiders who sought to indebt the community to the will of economic overlords and ecological vandals. Evidence of incompetence, corruption and negligence is detailed to explain how the systems of Local Government were used to thwart the efforts of a trusting community. May the Guide be of use to anybody seeking to positively participate in their local government. Democracy is self-determination, with respect and equality for the individuals within a community ¿ appreciate it and exercise it, or loose it ! Architecture, history, legislation, politics, sociology, town planning and optimizing the luxury of Spaceship Earth. We are trim-tabs of sustainability ¿ seek to keep it balanced. ...Show more

BUSSELTON 1830-1850 : OUTSTATION ON THE VASSE by RODGER JENNINGS

$27.99 AUD

Category: Local Area

Margaret River Region From Above by Martine Perret

$30.99 AUD

Category: Local Area

What the Colonists Never Knew - A History of Aboriginal Sydney by Dennis Foley; Peter Read

$35.00 AUD

Category: Local Area

What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore from an early age.Through his eyes we see a Sydney of totemic landscapes resonating with ceremonial sites and ancestral activity, song-lines and walking tracks, habitat caves and middens, and share memories of what has been lost.At Narrabeen camp in the 1950s we meet Uncle Willie de Serve, a man who wore the scarifications of his ritual life and mentored the young Dennis. 'His face was alive with a thousand stories.'Dennis also introduces us to Nanna Watson, who lived in a little humpy at Car-rang gel (North Head). 'On a hot summer's afternoon, she would hitch her dress up round her knees and wriggle around in the sand to get a couple of ugaries (pipis), chew one up and spit it into the water and put the other one on the line, and before you knew it she'd have a big whiting or a bream.'Through the stories so generously told we may reflect on what it means to be a stolen child and one of the 'silent generations', and to fight to safeguard culture and identity. We can sense the responsibility of being the senior Gai-mariagal and the last of the storytellers, and the urgency to document and share the knowledge bestowed on him by generations of his family. 'This is a mesmerising read. It flows from rich anecdotal remembrance loaded with song and lore to incisive commentary about legislation and then slips seamlessly into detailed evocation of pre-colonial life. I have always loved Foley's ability to bring a story to life and Read's measured but uncompromising analysis … I love this bloody book.' — Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu'There has never been a book like this before. Dazzling, revelatory, unheralded.' — Melissa Lucashenko, author of Mullumbimby and Too Much Lip'Come into this book to find a Sydney that many of us have never seen. This is a Sydney which to this day belongs to a network of vivid, tenacious, funny and courageous Aboriginal people. Dennis and Peter are both master storytellers and they bring to us the rich and moving stories of people who lived on and travelled around the paths and waterways of the city, to keep close to the people and country they cared about.' — Heather Goodall, author of Invasion to Embassy and Rivers and Resilience ...Show more

Ngala Wongga, Cultural Significance of Languages in the Goldfields by Martine perret (Artist, Photographer, Produced by); Gary Cooper (Artist, Foreword by)

$65.00 AUD

Category: Local Area

My native language is French and I'm a photojournalistby profession. Since first visiting Australia and now living in the Margaret River region of Western Australia, I have felt a deepconnection to the landscape of this vast country. Outside ofmy work as a United Nations peacekeeping photographer,I deci ded to focus on more personal projects, on my artphotography.In July 2015 I decided to fly over the salt lakes of the WesternAustralian Goldfields to photograph a series called'Gungurrunga Ngawa' (Look Above), as a sequel of sortsto my earlier books and the exhibition From Above, whichcaptured aerial views of the south west region of WesternAustralia.I wanted to do more than aerial views, I wanted to tell abigger story; to draw attention to the need to preserve at riskIndigenous languages in Western Australia's Goldfields.So, I also chose to document some of the last remainingspeakers of this region, in a way that expressed theirphysical and cultural connections to their land.The project developed over 18 months, during which Idrove over 25,000km - between my home in MargaretRiver to and from the Goldfields' towns of Kalgoorlie,Norseman, Laverton and Wiluna - and spent five months,on and off, on the ground with local Indigenous Elders,gaining their trust, listening to their stories, recording andphotographing. I came to appreciate how intertwined theirlanguage is to the land and to their cultural wellbeing; and Iglimpsed the ominous impact of when a language dies out.Over that time - on the land, in the skies and on the road- my ambition grew and a wider project emerged: 'NgalaWongga' (Come Talk).The aerial photographs and the portraits came together withaudio and visual recordings, culminating in a multi-sensoryinstallation exhibition which opened on 20 September 2016at the Kalgoorlie Goldfields Arts Centre. It was the result ofmany collaborations, but most importantly with the localIndigenous speakers - who gave of themselves and toldtheir stories of land and language. ...Show more

Wednesday's Garden

$35.00 AUD

Category: Local Area

The Best of the South West by Carolyn Thomson-Dans

$19.99 AUD

Category: Local Area