There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
Alpine Australia by Craig and Munn Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Alpine Australia - A celebration of the Australian Alps portrays the stunning high country region unique to the Alpine areas of New South Wales and Victoria - the areas which are often snow covered for a number of months each winter. This superbly photographed coffee table pictorial brings this magnific ...Show more
The Squatters: The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers by Barry Stone
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
For the early settlers who came from crowded cities and long established villages, it must have been extraordinary to find you could pack your belongings onto a bullock dray and head off to rural grasslands out of the reach of meddlesome authorities. They could just mark out a parcel of land, bring in s ...Show more
Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in t ...Show more
Buckley's Chance (PB) by Garry Linnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. e was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England, ...Show more
My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
Hazelwood by Tom Doig
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Early in the afternoon of 9 February 2014, during the worst drought and heatwave south-eastern Australia had experienced in over a century, two separate bushfires raged towards the massive Hazelwood open-pit brown-coal mine, near Morwell in the Latrobe Valley. The fires overwhelmed local fire-fighting e ...Show more
Heart of Australia: A Celebration of Community Spirit by Nick Rains
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Nick Rains has photographed people and places across Australia for over 35 years, and in that time he's met people from many different walks of life - people living in remote or rural communities, coastal or urban dwellers, Indigenous Australians, battlers or those who are just plain strange. But the pe ...Show more
Ridgeview Station by Michael Trant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Many of Peter and Kelsie Dalton's friends thought they were crazy when they bought Ridgeview Station. But five years on, their hard work, help from Kelsie's parents, and record rainfall have them in high spirits as the summer muster approaches.Realising they're going to need more help this season, Peter ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People: Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more