Bold and Lucky Australias Colonial Navy 1824 - 1831
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
A prequel to his 'World's end' British military outposts in the 'ring fence' around Australia 1824-1849, this book by prize-winning historian and keen sailor Alan Powell celebrates the small ships of Australia's colonial navy. Brigs, cutters, schooners and sloops were pressed into service in a rag-tag a ...Show more
Broken Spear: The untold story of Black Tom Birch, the man who sparked Australia's bloodiest war by Robert Cox
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Black Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen's Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of dozens of settlers. He burnt their buildings and destroyed their livestock and crops. Newspapers raged against him. One demanded he be lync ...Show more
Bush Remedies by Cheryll Williams
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bush Remedies is a readable and well-researched introduction to the huge variety of native plants in Australia with medicinal properties. The Aboriginal people exploited this diversity and harvested the bounty of the land with ingenuity. The colonists found the strange flora almost incomprehensible. A l ...Show more
Bush Tragedies - True Stories of Crime, Murder, Misery and Heartache from Western New South Wales by Bill Poulos
$44.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Former journalist Bill Poulos delves deep into Australia's turbulent and lawless past with this collection of stories recalling crimes, murders and tragedies that once made headlines around the nation.His detailed research takes the reader into townships, settlements and the wide-open spaces of the outb ...Show more
Deep South: Stories from Tasmania by Ralph Crane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A wonderful collection of twenty-four short stories that celebrate the history, culture and creativity of Tasmania. Tasmania is another country-a lush, sometimes foreboding island with a people fiercely protective of its history, culture and creativity. This handsome collection, the first to bring toget ...Show more
Don't Take Your Love to Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Black Australian Writing Ser.
Ruby Langford Ginibi's bestselling first book is now back in print.With sales of over 30,000 copies since publication in 1988, Don't Take Your Love to Townis now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir. It has been set for HSC over a number of years and is one of the most important Indigenous life stories t ...Show more
Fair Dinkum!: Aussie Slang by H.G Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. In this attractive new pictorial guide, readers will learn to distinguish their drongos from their dropkicks and discover where our unique vernacular comes from.Discover the co ...Show more
Fire - A Brief History (Second Edition) by Pyne, Stephen J
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne?named by Science magazine as ?the world?s leading authority on the history of fire??explores the surpri ...Show more
Going Home Stories by Archie Weller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Reissue of a collection of short stories by this Aboriginal writer. When first published in 1986, Adam Shoemaker described the stories as Tone of the most singular and impressive collections of contemporary stories to appear in Australia'.
Great Australian Bush Funeral Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin We're nearing the end of the service and so I step closer in to do the last 'ashes to ashes and dust to dust' bit. Just as I get to the edge of the grave, the soil gives away and in I go. Well, they reckon I was like a kangaroo. I hardly missed a bea ...Show more
Great Australian Urban Myths - The Cane Toad High by Graham Seal
$20.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
We like to think that we live in an age of reason and rationality, that uncertainty and the unknown have largely been eliminated by technology and science. But it seems that we have nagging doubts. Continually, we tell each other odd tales about ankle slashers and hairy-armed women in the shopping mall. ...Show more
Great Bush Stories - Colourful Yarns and True Tales from Life on the Land by Graham Seal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colorful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through Australian history and folklore, entertaining and appalling in equal measure. Graham Seal has gathered classic and little-known stories from the time when mos ...Show more