Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Birdsong By the Billabong by Maura Finn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A charming and adventurous picture book that celebrates the Australian landscape, from the partnership behind By the Billabong and Babies at the Billabong. A warbling magpie, A choir of cockatoos, A band of blue fairy wrens... What else might you find on a trip to the billabong? From the creators of the ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
Shore to Shore: Images of the Beautiful Mornington Peninsula by A & R Parsons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Explore the stunning shorelines and landscapes of the Mornington Peninsula. Natural beauty lies around every corner, all of which are quite accessible by car or an enjoyable walk. Discover the most scenic places to visit and enjoy the natural highlights of this region, capturing the beauty of the differ ...Show more
Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960 - Royal Historical Society of Victoria by Richard BROOME; Richard BARNDEN; Don GARDEN; Don GIBB; Elisabeth JACKSON; Judith SMART
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Melbourne has been reshaped since the 1950s, the completion of ICI House in 1958 being symbolic of the glass tower revolution that changed the face of this magnificent 19th-century city. This book Remembering Melbourne 1850–1960, captures what has been lost and forgotten, concealed and overlaid, demolis ...Show more
The Catch: Australia’s Love Affair With Fishing by Anna Clark
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bat shop and a boat ramp. In laundries and garages around the country, fishing rods are strung up waiting for their next outing. Walk over a bridge, look across to a wharf and there will be people casting a line. Many people have a special fishing spot, and ...Show more
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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