Wild Heart of Tasmania: A Living History of Lake Malbena and the Western Lakes by Greg French
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Wild Heart of Tasmania is a lively collection of stories centred around a highland wilderness. It portrays bushwalking and backcountry fishing as a way of life, and historic bush huts as social fabric. In the early 2000s, Greg French was approached by a talented young fly fisher to write a foreword to ...Show more
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe. Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the w ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
MR TODDS MARVEL How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world by Adam Courtenay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1855 Charles Todd had a bold dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to connect it to the world. By 1870, Singapore had joined the global network: now for Australia. Todd and his men successfully erected thousands of telegraph poles - one every 80 metres - across land that was relentlessly i ...Show more
The Catch: Australia’s Love Affair With Fishing by Anna Clark
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bat shop and a boat ramp. In laundries and garages around the country, fishing rods are strung up waiting for their next outing. Walk over a bridge, look across to a wharf and there will be people casting a line. Many people have a special fishing spot, and ...Show more
Callan Park by SARAH. LUKE
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Tales of Victorian-era madness have imbued twenty-first century minds with images of inconvenient husbands and wives, locked up in attics or diseased madhouses in the English countryside, without hope of real care or release. But what was the reality faced by the 'insane' in nineteenth-century New South ...Show more
Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales by A. W. Reed
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
How did snakes become poisonous? Why are there black swans only in Australia? Learn a bout the powerful Rainbow Snake, red and black flying foxes, the Eagle-hawk and the Medicine-man in these incredible tales of the Dramtime. So much of traditional Aboriginal storytelling teaches us about the animal wor ...Show more
Country, Kin And Culture by Smith Claire
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Outlines how one Aboriginal community drew upon their sense of country, kin and culture to survive the incursions of British colonisation. It outlines their histories from before contact to the present, through protectionism and assimilation, to self- determination and reconciliation.
Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two ...Show more
Old Vintage Melbourne, 1960-1990 by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne, this collection invites you again to turn back time and revisit the diverse past of the much-loved city of Melbourne. This captivating compilation of photographs taken between 1960 and 1990 provides a fascinating glimpse of a time that is familiar and yet different, w ...Show more
Welcome to Country (BB) (2022 edition) by Aunty Joy Murphy
$15.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Board Books
An Aboriginal ceremony of Welcome to Country is depicted in a stunning board book from two Indigenous Australians.Welcome to the lands of the Wurundjeri people. The people are part of the land, and the land is a part of them. Aboriginal communities across Australia have boundaries that are defined by mo ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more