Flinders by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead - a pre ...Show more
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo. Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
Kidman The Forgotten King by Jill Bowen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
As a barely literate yough of 13, Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history. During his lifetime he acquired a legendary reputation both at home and abroad. This is the story of hi ...Show more
Welcome to My Country by Laklak Burarrwanga and Family
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A wonderfully engaging and heartening account of a successful Aboriginal community based at a beautiful beach site in Arnhem Land. Bawaka Country refers to the diverse land, water, animals, plants, rocks, thoughts, and songs that make up their Indigenous homeland of Bawaka. Theirs is a story of lives en ...Show more
Call of the Reed Warbler: Revised Edition by Charles Massy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Call of the Reed Warbler will change the way we farm, eat and think about food. In this groundbreaking book Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. Using his personal farming experience as a touchstone, he tells the real story behind ind ...Show more
100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places by Ben Pobjie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places, Ben Pobjie communes with the spirit world to reveal Australia's most spooky stories. From the ghostly black horse of Sutton Forest to the butcher of Adelaide Street, a haunted Brisbane lift to the chilling experiments carried out by Doctor Blood of the ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colon ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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
Snowy: The Making of Modern Australia by COLLIS BRAD
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Snowy Mountains Scheme changed Australia forever. A country founded on stolid British stock almost overnight became one of the world's great pancultures. Tens of thousands of workers from more than 30 lands poured into what was the undisturbed pastoral realm of the high country stockman, the souther ...Show more
Echoes of the Dreamtime - Australian Aboriginal Myths by Ainslie Roberts (Artist); Melva Roberts
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Classic Aboriginal Myths illustrated by Ainslie Roberts, in full colour, and back in print after 30 years.
Australia's Funniest Yarns by Graham Seal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australians traditionally like their humour irreverent, crude and with very sharp teeth.Remember the one about the strange whining sound heard at airports as planes from Britain landed? This was the whingeing of Pommy migrants dissatisfied with what they found in Australia. Or how about the Citizenship ...Show more