Wimmera by Homer Rieth
$5.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Replacing the battles of heroes and gods with the struggle of mortal humans with time and space, 'Wimmera' re-invents the epic. 'Wimmera' is the history of a region and seedbed of a vision where 'the bunyip indeed lays down with the manticore.' There is nothing like it anywhere.
Australia's Best Unknown Stories: And Tales You Thought You Knew... by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'Not only are there many things we don't know, we should never be too sure about the things we are sure we do know.'..From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this collection of classic Australian stories.the unknown, the forgotten, the surprising.. ...Show more
The Europeans in Australia: A History: Volume Two - Democracy by Alan Atkinson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Europeans in Australia Ser.
The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century communications revolution Atkinson casts new light ...Show more
This is the Grass by Alan Marshall
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is the Grass is Alan Marshall's moving sequel to the much-loved Australian classic I Can Jump Puddles. First published in 1962, it tells the story of Marshall's adolescence, as he searches for work amid the rough and tumble of 1920s Melbourne. From Wallaby Creek in Donvale Shire where he boards wit ...Show more
Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar
$27.99 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 Two, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education. Returning to her be ...Show more
Such is Life by Tom Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'Such is life,' said Ned Kelly on the scaffold, kindly providing a title for this 'offensively Australian' classic: the splendidly farcical, tragical reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. As he drives his bullock team across the plains of the Riverina and Northern Victoria, Tom becomes wi ...Show more
Rainforest Country by Stanley Breeden, Kaisa Breeden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Few places in Australia are of such pivotal ecological importance as the tropical rainforests of northeast Queensland. Stunning in their diversity and vigour, they are all that remains of the great Gondwana forests that once covered the continent. As well as a spectacle of great beauty, they tell the st ...Show more
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
In Bligh's Hand: Surviving the Mutiny on the Bounty by Jenny Gall
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
This volume provides an accurate account of the arduous and dangerous journey of Captain Bligh and his men after the mutiny on the Bounty. After the mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, led by Fletcher Christian, Captain William Bligh and 18 others were forced onto a 7-metre-long open boat and cast ad ...Show more
Great Disasters in Australian History by Jonathan King
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From cyclones to sinking ships, from mine explosions to train crashes, faulty planes and bridge collapses, from the shooting in Port Arthur to the Bali bombing, from floods in the north to bushfires in the south, Australia has not been immune to the fickle finger of fate. No one expects cataclysmic even ...Show more