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
Every Man and His Dog by David Darcy
$19.98 AUD
Category: Australiana
Since Indigenous Australians first shared their lives with dingoes thousands of years ago, dogs have been part of the fabric of everyday life in Australia. David Darcy explores this timeless bond between man and dog. Traveling around Australia, from the coast to the Outback, David photographed blokes fr ...Show more
Australian Confederates by Terry Smyth
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
IN the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War. On the notorious raider Shenandoah scourge of the Yankee merchant fleet they sailed off to adventure and controversy, and fired the last shot of ...Show more
Flying Kangaroo: Untold Stories of QANTAS and the People Who Made a Great Australian Airline by Jim Eames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From its earliest days, Qantas has attracted its fair share of unusual challenges and unique characters. These are the stories of a great airline and the people who made it told by a man who has Qantas running through his veins. Full of nostalgia for a company in its prime, they are hilarious, heroic, a ...Show more
Ned Kelly Encyclopaedia by CORFIELD Justin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
When the Kelly Gang rode to Jerilderie in January 1879 they heard people singing songs praising their exploits. Since then historians, novelists, film directors, journalists and commentators have regularly debated the events in Northeast Victoria in the late 1870s.THE NED KELLY ENCYCLOPAEDIA brings toge ...Show more