Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline's childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin. With the outbreak of World War II, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education. Returning to her bel ...Show more
The Last Showman by Fred Brophy; Sue Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'Fred Brophy is a legend - he's one of my favourite real Australians.' John Williamson Son of a sideshow operator and a trapeze artist, Fred Brophy grew up on the road, travelling the length and breadth of Australia. He did time in jail as a teenager before touring his own boxing tent at a time when the ...Show more
Nurses of the Outback by Annabelle Brayley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The work of a nurse is challenging enough, but when you add a remote location, the stakes are so much higher. Meet fifteen courageous people who prove that the inland runs on nurse power. There's Anna, who is on duty as the fury of Cyclone Yasi tears through inland Queensland; Maureen in outback New Sou ...Show more
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous res ...Show more
Remembered By Heart: An Anthology Of Indigenous Writing by Sally Morgan
$17.98 AUD
Category: Australiana
A collection of powerful, true stories of Aboriginal life This anthology brings together 15 memoirs of growing up Aboriginal in Australia and includes works from Kim Scott, Australia's first indigenous Miles Franklin winner; bestselling author Sally Morgan; and the critically acclaimed artist, author, ...Show more
Spinning Tops & Gumdrops: A Portrait of Colonial Childhood by Edwin Barnard
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Spinning Tops & Gumdrops captures a time when `imagination, skill, and daring' was the source of children's play. Quoits and jacks, hide and seek, cricket with a kerosene tin for a wicket, dress ups and charades, can all be seen in these appealing images. Children climb trees, run races, and build r ...Show more
Akubra Handcrafted History by Neil Montagnana-Wallace; Val Montagnana-Wallace (Editor); Rairu Rebolledo (Designed by); Bounce Books (Prepared for Publication by)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
What comes to mind when you think of that Australian icon, Akubra? Part story, part myth, but 100 per cent icon. This book goes behind the icon. It explores the rich heritage of the five generations of family that have created the world's greatest fur felt hat-making business.
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer by Robert Macklin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as well ...Show more
Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History by Mandy Sayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present. Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots of R ...Show more
Last Horse Standing by Michael Keenan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
An amazing true story of courage and survival in the outback by the bestselling author of The Horses Too Are Gone.In 1971 bushman Jack Camp went mustering wild cattle - 'cleanskins' - in a vast and isolated stretch of the Kimberley coast. The potential profit would be huge - but so were the risks. It wa ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Too Long in the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Too Long In the Bush is the story of how, from 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road across Central Australia from east to west, 1500 kilometres from the Alice Springs road to Carnegie homestead 650 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. On the way he surveyed and built the Giles Meteorolo ...Show more