Back of Beyond: Hugh Tinndall's stories of a shearing life in the outback by Freda Marie Nicholls
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Former sheep shearer, dingo trapper and horse breaker Hugh Tindall reminisces on his extraordinary life in outback Queensland.
Melbourne by Peter Emanuel
$9.94 AUD
Category: Australiana
A fabulous colour hardback, with each photograph specially selected to show the best of the locale.
Underground Australia by Michael McKernan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
What lurks beneath the surface? In the bowels of a Sydney pub, the publican poses with his hand in chains: a reminder of the time when the underground store was a convict cell. A family, thrown out of home during the Great Depression, set up house in a cave. Women sort mushrooms in a disused railway tun ...Show more
Australia Day by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows ...Show more
That Was My Home - Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs by Denise Cook
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
That Was My Home explores the hidden histories of the Noongar camps around Fremantle, Swanbourne and Shenton Park in the suburbs of Perth along the Swan River. The focus is the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, a time when many Noongar people lived with their families in camps. The voices of Noongar people, juxta ...Show more
The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia by Ian Lowe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
"Can we reinvent The Lucky Country? In 1964, Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck' in his iconic book.a Now, more than five decades later, internationally respected scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe shows that little has changed a ...Show more
The Red Chief by Ion Idriess
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Aboriginal legend of the Red Kangaroo, Cumbo Gunerah (1680-1745), who as a result of his bravery becomes leader of the Gunnedah tribe. The story originated from Stan Ewing's diary who spoke to King Bungaree (1780-1830), the last Aboriginal chief of the Gunnedah tribe in New South Wales.
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ and their bushranging brethren are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all ...Show more
Tears of Strangers: A Family Memoir by Stan Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Where do I belong? Who am I? The blood of my fathers links me to a much older place and time. I've walked in the footprints of my ancestors: I've sat by the riverbank at night and imagined them around me. I am all that they have made me. Journalist Stan Grant was born in 1963, a son of the Wiradjuri ...Show more
Sons Of The Southern Cross: rebels, revolutions, Anzacs and the spirit of Australia's fighting flag by Grantlee Kieza
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Ever since the Southern Cross flag was 'born' in the minefields of Victoria it's been a symbol for a rebellious Australian spirit - from the battles of Eureka to those of Ned Kelly, from the birth of the Labor Party to the Anzacs at Galliopoli. The men and women involved took the flag as their symbol. B ...Show more
Barefoot in the Bindis by Angela Wales
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Sheep Farming 1950's Aust
A circle of pine trees, a sagging wire fence, and a roof that was once painted red. 'There it is,' said Dad. In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Scottish-born Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish a sheep farm i ...Show more
Bushcraft 101 : A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival by CANTERBURY, DAVE
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Bushcraft Ser.
The ultimate resource for experiencing the backcountry! Written by survivalist expert Dave Canterbury, Bushcraft 101 gets you ready for your next backcountry trip with advice on making the most of your time outdoors. Based on the 5Cs of Survivability--cutting tools, covering, combustion devices, contain ...Show more