The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit by Larry Writer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of The Dunbar. At the top of The Gap, the haunted cliffs that front the coast of Sydney's Watsons Bay, sits a massive, battered anchor. It belonged to the Dunbar, an 1186-tonne three-masted clipped en route to Sydney from Plymou ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Banjo Paterson: A Life in Pictures and Words from the Banjo Paterson Family Archive by Alistair Campbell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A stunning collection from the archive of Australia's greatest storyteller, Banjo Paterson. Notebooks, illustrations, photographs, letters and transcripts of some of our best-loved songs, poems and stories have been brought together for the first time. Banjo's great-grandson and sole executor of the po ...Show more
Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition) by Jackie Huggins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays. The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays, speeches and interviews com ...Show more
Whispering Wire: Tracing the Overland Telegraph Line through the heart of Australia by Rosamund Burton
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
"Interweaving history and travel, this entertaining story traces one woman’s journey tracing the 3200 km Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin. Constructed between 1870 and 1872, the line transformed Adelaide into Australia’s communication hub, connecting the continent with the rest of the wor ...Show more
Our Voices From The Heart by Patricia Anderson AO, Professor Megan Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itse ...Show more
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm by Alan Atkinson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasi ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more
Holocaust Island (First Nations Classics) by Graeme Dixon, Ali Cobby Eckermann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice - from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights - and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.Holocaust Island was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989. Graeme Dixon' ...Show more
Mizuto and the Wind by Kaye Baillie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Age range 5 to 10Mizuto is a young boy living an ordinary life in Japan until one day, something extraordinary happens.Following a deadly tsunami, Mizuto’s father is missing.Could a mysterious telephone connected only to the wind help him find his father?Based on real events, Mizuto and the Wind is a st ...Show more
Australia The Journey by Steve Parish (Photographer)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is an ancient island continent of contrasts and extremes, from lush tropical rainforests to the parched deserts of the inland. The continent's diversity of climates, landforms and habitats are home to an array of fauna and flora, many unique to Australia. At sixteen sites, the natural and cult ...Show more
The Vanished Land: Disappearing dynasties of Victoria's Western District by Richard Zachariah
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons.This melancholy exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by di ...Show more