We, The Aborigines by Lockwood Douglas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Stories of Aboriginal people culture, including Albert Namatjira. Tribes represented: Aranda , Djumindjung, Wailbri , Pitjentjarra Nongomeri , Iwaija , Jabu and Moola Boola Douglas Lockwood began writing books based on his own knowledge and experiences with the Aborigines of northern and central Austral ...Show more
To My Country by Ben Lawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry, helpless and broken-hearted as he watched the ...Show more
Back Roads #2: The Scenic Route by Heather Ewart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia's inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV's Back Roads has taken us across Australia, through scorched deserts, along sapphire coasts, up breathtaking mountains and over gentle, roll ...Show more
The Sydney Harbour Fairy by Deborah Frenkel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An ode to Sydney Harbour, grandmothers, and ferries. Nanna is taking Charlie for a Girls' Day Out. They'll have high tea, watch the ballet, smell flowers and visit the Sydney Harbour Fairy. Charlie does not like the sound of a Girls' Day Out. And she especially hates fairies. But the Harbour Fairy isn't ...Show more
Melbourne Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Remember dropping into the Coles Cafeteria on Bourke Street for a feast of rashers, sausages and mash, with gravy, from the bain marie? Or catching a 'red rattler' into the city? Eating a hot jam doughnut from the American Doughnut Kitchen van at the Queen Vic markets? If you answered yes to any of thes ...Show more
Beyond the Outback - Gulf Women of Remote North West Queensland by Bronwyn Blake
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country', near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and can cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them: floods, drought, sickness, emergencies. W ...Show more
TRACY - 50 Years, 50 Stories
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
50 stories from survivors of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974.Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a s ...Show more
Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story by Banjo Woorunmurra, Howard Pedersen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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100 Weirdest Tales from Across Australia by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springi ...Show more
In Living Memory by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-In-Chief)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The story of Australia in the middle decades of the 20th century – from 1930 to 1980 – is one of dramatic contrast; of dark days and light – of economic struggle, anxiety, war and sacrifice, giving way from the 1950s onwards to prosperity, plenty and confidence.Australian Geographic’s In Living Memory s ...Show more
Nganga: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Words and Phrases by Aunty Fay Muir, Sue Lawson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Nganga (ng gar na): To see and understand. Aunty, Uncle, sorry business, deadly, women’s business, marngrook, dreamtime, Elders, songlines. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words have become part of our everyday vocabulary but we may not know their true meaning or where the words come from. In Ngan ...Show more
Tom Wills: The Insubordinate Life of an Australian Sporting Legend by Greg de Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The updated edition of the definitive biography of the visionary sportsman who brought us Australian Rules football and was the greatest cricketer of his era. SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the story of Tom Wills - flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, Au ...Show more