Australians: From Eureka to the Diggers: Volume 2 by Thomas Keneally
$35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Australians | Reading Level: very good
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, arti ...Show more
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
$29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
"A gut punch of a book in the style of Le Guin, Atwood, and Butler. Claire G. Coleman's debut novel blazes with truth." -- Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble Terra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man's land "Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to ru ...Show more
BrownJudy by Martin Davey
$24.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
An `Irish-born, London-bred¿ ex-con from the notorious island convict colony of Van Diemen¿s Land is hired at the 1839 new year convict muster in Geelong to be shepherd on a station at the frontier of white settlement expansion into what was then known as the Portland Bay District. He soon learns that t ...Show more
Instant Aussie: Australia in a Nutshell by Foster Jason
$19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Instant Aussie is an informative and fun way to truly immerse yourself in fair dinkum Aussie culture without ever having to leave the comfort of your own home.The ideal gift for travellers, or relatives and friends back home.Instant Aussie covers ...all the important topics of Australia s foundation and ...Show more
What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney by Dennis Foley, Peter Read
$35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore ...Show more
Aboriginal Myths, Legends by a W Reed
$26.99 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.
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, w ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A. B. Facey; Robert Juniper (Illustrator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
Nharangga Wanggadja - Narungga Speaking by Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association Inc. Staff (Compiled by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
This book contains Narungga and English versions of useful speeches. Compiled from the work of the Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association, Nharangga Wanggadja (Narungga Speaking) is testimony to the belief that language is only as powerful as those who tend it.
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War by Bart Zino
$39.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
In the First World War, Australian reactions to death were defined by distance, a circumstance that impelled mourners towards communal responses to their loss. It drove them to create and sustain links with the graves that most knew they would never see. A widespread recognition of this condition result ...Show more
Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann; Arnold Zable (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. But the daily reports and political promises lack the historical context that would allow for informed debate. Have we ever taken our fair share of refugees? Have our past responses bee ...Show more