At Home in Australia by Peter Conrad
$24.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Peter Conrad’s special gift is that of the great writer - to make the particular of intense personal concern to each of us. Here he gives his own deeply felt account of a nation’s history and his brilliant word-pictures are inspired by over 200 photographs from the collections of the National Gallery of ...Show more
How to Defend Australia by Hugh White
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A brilliant and important book about Australia's future. Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White cons ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
$12.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke. For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian his ...Show more
Aboriginal Myths, Legends by a W Reed
$26.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
A.W. Reed. This book presents a wealth of poetic and imaginative tales from Aboriginal cultural heritage. While retelling the stories simply, this book captures the mystical bonds that exist between Aboriginal people, their environment and the spirit life of the Dreamtime.
Shelter - How Australians Live by Kara Rosenlund
$59.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Driving down a dirt track one day photographer, stylist and adventurer Kara Rosenlund came across a beautiful but dilapidated farmhouse. Its lonely, worn loveliness kindled a passion in Kara to photograph and celebrate Australia's authentic, intriguing rural homes and the people who live in them. As she ...Show more
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate ...Show more
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising
First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Dictionary of Contemporary Slang by Tony Thorne
$24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
With more than 7,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions. In this fully updated fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contempor ...Show more
Disasters That Changed Australia by Richard Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright greed. In "Disasters that Changed Australia", historian Richard Evans nominates the disasters that have b ...Show more
Old Melbourne Postcards by Fred Mitchell
$16.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Box of 20 Cards120 x 100 x 30 mm