Gunner (HB) by Kathryn Berryman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Gunner is the true story of a stray dog living in Darwin during the Second World War, who after being injured in an air-raid by the Japanese discovers a unique talent that helps save many lives. A black and white puppy starts his day like any other day, playing at the edge of an airfield. It is a clear ...Show more
100 Aussie Things We Know and Love 2nd Ed by Bunny Banyai; Anna Blandford (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
100 Aussie Things We Know and Love puts the Australian way of life under a forensic lens, vigorously examining the socio-political underpinnings of the Australian character. Nah, just kidding! We'll just take you on a whistle-stop tour through the country's greatest people, places, animals, food, events ...Show more
Aboriginal Myths, Legends by a W Reed
$24.99 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.
Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER by Paul Hogan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down Under Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have been coming ever since, and while it hasn't alway ...Show more
Australia Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Remember grabbing a copy of the late edition afternoon paper from the paper boy? Watching a Graham Kennedy skit on TV? Did you buy a 45rpm single or a 33rpm album at your local record shop? And play it on your record player? If you answered yes to any of these questions chances are you are part of the B ...Show more
Australia in 100 Places by Australian Geographic
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
At Australian Geographic we know Australia like the back of our hand. Our talented writers and photographers have crisscrossed this vast continent for decades seeking out and exploring its most dramatic geological features, its rivers and deserts and the wild islands that lie off our beautiful coastline ...Show more
Australian Outback Yarns : Bull From the Bush by Bob Flatt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bob Flatt brings to life many of his hair-raising adventures and the characters he met along the way. It tells of a world before technology took over, when each cattle station was its own self-contained community, drovers still roamed the land and the spirit of mateship was a matter of life and death. ...Show more
Australia's Funniest Yarns by Graham Seal
$29.99 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
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
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more
Banbu-Deen: The Years of Terror by Marguerita Stephens; Fay Stewart-Muir (As told to)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Why did Billibellary and Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung clansfolk parley with the coloniser John Batman on the banks of the Merri Creek in June 1835? And what befell the clans in the decade and a half that followed? Based on the daily journal of Assistant Protector William Thomas, this work meticulously doc ...Show more
Beyond the Big Run: The Mandandanji Land War Southern Queensland 1842-52 by Darrell Lewis
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
'I'll be lucky to last a bloody year,' was the prediction of nineteen year old Charlie Schultz. That was 1928, when he first arrived to take up the management of Humbert River Station. A tiny run-down property in a tangle of wild ranges, neighbour to the vast and legendary Victoria River Downs, Humbert ...Show more