Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Voyages by Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anyone who loves history, science, art, or classic tales of adventure will be enthralled by the journeys of Captain James Cook and his intrepid crews. Three epic voyages took them to South America, the Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Australia, Alaska, Siberia, the East Indies, and across the vast Indian O ...Show more
Mrs Kelly: the astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother While we know much about the iconic outlaw Ned Kelly, his mother Ellen Kelly has been largely overlooked by Australian writers and historians - until now, with this vivid and compelling portrait by Grantlee Kieza, one of Australia's most popular biographers.Whe ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wante ...Show more
Field Guide to Reptiles of Victoria (PB) by A. John Coventry; Peter Robertson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Victoria's reptile population is not often encountered by urban dwellers, with many species rare or threatened. You may have glimpsed a skink darting into the undergrowth, a snake slithering along a walking path or a blue-tongued lizard sunning itself near your garden shed. Yet the turtles, skinks, geck ...Show more
Women to the Front by Heather Sheard; Ruth Lee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undau ...Show more
Angels of Mercy by Lynette Ramsay Silver
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Angels of Mercy: Far West & Far East follows the gripping stories of two different Australiannursing sisters, who overcame the challenging adversities of two very different circumstances.In the 1930s, Marjorie Silver was employed by The Far West Childrens Health Scheme andbecame their first permanen ...Show more
Debesa: The Story of Frank and Katie Rodriguez by Cindy Solonec
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'I listened to my family’s narratives and my ancestors began to emerge in an almost life-like way.' — Cindy Solonec This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley; their livelihood through difficult times, love of family, plac ...Show more
Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Megan Davis, George Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the ...Show more
Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories by Bill Marsh
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
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The Brumby Wars: The battle for the soul of Australia by Anthony Sharwood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It's not just a war over horses. It's a battle for the soul of Australia. This is a book about the intense culture war raging around Australia's wild horses, known as brumbies. It pits a vision of the legendary Man from Snowy River and the iconic ANZAC Light Horse against the spectre of ecosystems destr ...Show more
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than ha ...Show more