Child of Gondwana - The Geological Making of Tasmania by Keith Corbett
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
'Gifted geologist and writer, Keith Corbett, has created a book that will enhance your enjoyment of Tasmania's wilderness. By showing what is beneath the amazing scenery, this book provides an understanding of the landscape and explains why, over eons of time, Tasmania and its islands have become what t ...Show more
Journey Into Dreamtime by Munya Andrews
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This book invites you to to step into the magical world of Aboriginal Dreamtime and to share in the world's oldest living culture - its ancient knowledge and spiritual wisdom. Inside are Dreamtime concepts that everyone can understand. Find out why the Rainbow Snake is called by that name and why it is ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
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
A Fortunate Life (HB) - Fremantle Press Treasures by A. B. Facey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures Edition
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
Convict Colony: The Remarkable Story of the Fledgling Settlement That Survived Against the Odds by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
Mayne Inheritance by ROSAMOND Siemon
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, The Mayne Inheritance unfolds like a gothic thriller. Was it the murder victim's money that founded patriarch Patrick Mayne's Queen Street business empire? And were the whispered accusations of murder and genetic madness true? For 150 years scandal a ...Show more
Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Australian History by Darrell Lewis
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australian studies
The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost Leichhardt expedition. In April 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and six other men set out westward from the Queensland frontier, heading for Swan River settlement in W ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies’ return and the rise of television, to Goug ...Show more