Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions by MCCLOSKEY, RICHARD
$19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Most of us never realise how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases - colourful, bizarre and surprising - and how they came ashore.
Pub Yarns by Colin Whelan
$29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Each of these outstanding country, bush and outback pubs has a unique story to tell about its surroundings,its neighbours and about its customers, both regular and occasional. Author and photographer Colin Whelancrosses Australia on his motorbike to visit these disappearing icons of outback Australia. H ...Show more
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country youth edition: An Introduction to our First Peoples for Young Australians by Marcia Langton
$29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Reading Level: 8.5 Kids Non Fiction
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country schools edition is essential reading for any Australian high school student who wants to learn more about the culture that has thrived here for over 50,000 years. In this schools edition, author Professor Marcia Langton expands on the educational information from the f ...Show more
Woolsheds (Volume #2) by Tim Lee
$49.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A photographic documentary of the wool industry across Australia and New Zealand, featuring the work of renowned photographer Andrew Chapman.
The Spirit of Rural Australia by Davison Liam Conquest Jim
$35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
"The Spirit of Rural Australia" focuses on the nature of rural landscapes and communities. The photography has a nostalgic theme that reflects on past farming practices, institutions and key occupations fundamental to rural Australia, while at the same time the text considers the changes which are occur ...Show more
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Murder at Myall Creek: The trial that defined a nation by Mark Tedeschi
$22.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the man who conducted it. In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. The trial created an eno ...Show more
Railways of the Ovens and King by Nick Anchen
$59.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Nestled in the shadows of the Victorian Alps, the majestic Ovens and King River valleys first attracted prospectors during the 1850s gold rush. When the railway age arrived in the north east, iron roads were pushed through to the townships of Beechworth, Yackandandah, Bright and Whitfield. This book is ...Show more
Scotty's Top Aussie Sheds by Scott Cam
$35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
In Scotty's Top Aussie Sheds, one of this country's best-loved celebrities raises a toast in stories, anecdotes and photographs to an enduring Australian icon: the (not so humble) backyard shed. Scott Cam loves his shed-so much so that he has two of them. He loves spending time in his sheds, sometimes d ...Show more
Monash and Chauvel by Roland Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Monash and Chauvel is a gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most crit ...Show more
Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
Dark Emu Black Seeds Agriculture or Accident? by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Reading Level: Scholarly/Graduate
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the ...Show more