Signs of Australia: Vintage signs from the city to the outback by Brady Michaels, Dale Campisi
$32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Once upon a simpler time, hand-painted and hand-crafted signs brought colour and vibrancy to Australian towns and cities - advertising everything from dining rooms, milk bars, and CWA halls to Peter's ice cream, oatmeal, stout, Chinese restaurants, and Shelley's famous drinks. Now faded and slowly disap ...Show more
Strayapedia by Dominic Knight
$29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Patriotically basted in the goon trough of Australian values, this book is as fundamentally Strayan as bowling your final over underarm, not asking awkward questions about what's in your meat pie, and naming a swimming pool after Harold Holt. Conveniently omitting all areas not relating to Australia ...Show more
Australian Backyard Explorer (PB) by Peter Macinnis
$29.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlement. It includes little known explorers as well as the old favourites, such as James Cook, Edward John Eyre, Robert OHara Burke and William John Wil ...Show more
Australia Remember This Too! by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Australia Remember This Too! is a photographic celebration of nostalgia, particularly for Baby Boomers, 114,000 of whom follow the 'Australia Remember When' Facebook page, sharing their photos and memories.Remember Mike Willesee's A Current Affair from the '70s? Fairy bread with hundreds and thousands a ...Show more
Aboriginal Myths - Tales of Dreamtime by Reed A W
$22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Aboriginal Library
A collection of stories exploring dreamtime myths through ancient images, such as the Rainbow Snake, the discovery of fire, and the first man and woman. Divided into three sections, The Great Father, Totemic Ancestors and Creation Myths, it seeks to provide an insight into Aboriginal culture.
Rainforests of Australia's East Coast by Peter Krisch
$35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Rainforests of Australia's East Coast is aimed primarily at the reader group of more than 500,000 active bushwalkers in Australia. A large percentage of bushwalkers visit all subforms of rainforests on a regular basis and identification of plant species is a common subject. The book is written in a comp ...Show more
Running Man 10th Anniversary Edition by Michael Gerard Bauer
$19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
There had always been the Running Man--always that phantom form somewhere in the distance, always shuffling relentlessly closer . . . For a long time, fourteen-year-old Joseph has wondered about old Tom Leyton, his reclusive next-door neighbor. Gossip and rumors suggest that something terrible happened ...Show more
Lonely Planet Australia Planning Map by Lonely Planet
$12.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Map Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet Australia Planning Mapis your conveniently-sized passport to traveling with ease. Get more from your map and your trip with images and information about to ...Show more
Life & Adventures Of William Buckley by John Morgan; Tim Flannery (ed.)
$25.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'At 2.00 PM on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at indented Head near Geelong . he was six foot five and seven-eighths inches tall (198cm) in his bare feet. Though clearly a European, and "well proportioned with an erect military gait" the visitor spoke no ...Show more
The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
$22.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This title is a nostalgic portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Plymouth Street, a Sydney slum in Surry Hills. It concerns Rosie Darcy, and her first and last loves amid the brothels, the razor gangs, the tenements and the grog shops.
We, The Aborigines by Lockwood Douglas
$24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Stories of Aboriginal people culture, including Albert Namatjira. Tribes represented: Aranda , Djumindjung, Wailbri , Pitjentjarra Nongomeri , Iwaija , Jabu and Moola Boola Douglas Lockwood began writing books based on his own knowledge and experiences with the Aborigines of northern and central Austral ...Show more
Len Beadell's Legacy: Australia's Atomic Bomb and Rocket Roads by Ian Bayly
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Combines a concise account of the history of the roads made by Len Beadell and the several men that comprised the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, with a pictorial appreciation of some of the more scenic parts of these roads.