Born in 1958?: What else happened? by Ron Williams
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Born in Series
This is the ninth of the 1950s and the fifteenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to make y ...Show more
Australia the Land Down Under by Explore Australia
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A gorgeous little gift book and souvenir item, full of beautiful and evocative images of Australian destinations and experiences. All of the iconic, must-do destinations will be featured (Sydney Opera House, Twelve Apostles, Uluru, etc.), as well as some less well-known destinations that give a true sen ...Show more
The Last Great Australian Adventurer: Ben Carlin's Epic Journey Around the World by Amphibious Jeep. by Gordon Bass
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1948, the Australian Ben Carlin set out from New York City with an audacious, lunatic plan to circumnavigate the world by amphibious jeep. Fuelled by cigarettes and adrenaline, he forged eastwards through fierce Atlantic hurricanes; across scorching, uncharted North African desert; into dense South-E ...Show more
Dharmalan Dana An Australian Aboriginal Man's 73-Year Search for the Story of His Aboriginal and Indian Ancestors by George Edward Nelson
$77.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A Yorta Yorta man's seventy-three-year search for the story of his Aboriginal and Indian ancestors including his Indian Grampa who, as a real mystery man, came to Yorta Yorta country in Australia, from Mauritius, in 1881 and went on to leave an incredible legacy for Aboriginal Australia. This story is w ...Show more
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Janelle McCulloch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies' college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that ...Show more
The Great Australian Loneliness by Ernestine Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'This is the story of a journalist's journey round and across Australia...It was in July 1930 that I first set out, a wandering "copy-boy" with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines...' Ernestine Hill's classic account of travelling in the Australian outback, in a pilgrimage of ...Show more
Australians at Home: World War II by Michael McKernan
$17.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The best-selling Australians at Home were the first books to study the Australian home front, during World War I and II, in depth and detail. Michael McKernan has a University Medal and a doctorate from the Australian National University, he lectured in Australian History at the University of New South ...Show more
Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories
Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback. If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. this collection of more than sixty s ...Show more
88 Reasons Why Australia is the Craziest by Simon Crerar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A hilarious book-length listicle of Australian bizarro by the editor of BuzzFeedOz. Deadly spiders that survive for days under water ... Centipedes so big they poison snakes ... Prehistoric monsters 'patrolling' our beaches ... Those are just three reasons why Australia is the craziest. But there are mo ...Show more
Grog A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years by Tom Gilling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and sparked a revolution, made fortunes and ruined lives. In a society with few luxuries, liquor was power. It played a crucial role, not just in the lives of individuals like ...Show more