Wild Ride: The Story of the Australian Stock Saddle by Fiona Carruthers
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Clancy rode down the Cooper, Ned Kelly went on the run and Hugh Jackman's Drover headed for Darwin, they all rode in an Australian stock saddle.Developed in response to the unique challenges of the Australian environment, the Australian stock saddle is known for its comfort and ease when riding, es ...Show more
Born In 1969? - What Else Happened? by Ron Williams
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense. I could have talked to them a lot a ...Show more
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia by Beauty in the Bush Collective
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A grit and resilience that's both bolstering and invigorating. In their first book, the Beauty in the Bush Collective share the homes, work and play that make up the lives of those living in the bus ...Show more
Fair Dinkum!: Aussie Slang by H.G Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. In this attractive new pictorial guide, readers will learn to distinguish their drongos from their dropkicks and discover where our unique vernacular comes from.Discover the co ...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 Flanagan What do you need to know to prosper as ...Show more
No Sugar by Jack Davis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Currency Plays
The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Too Long in the Bush by Len Beadell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Too Long In the Bush is the story of how, from 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road across Central Australia from east to west, 1500 kilometres from the Alice Springs road to Carnegie homestead 650 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. On the way he surveyed and built the Giles Meteorolo ...Show more
Born in 1959?: What else happened? by Ron Williams
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Born in Series
This is the tenth of the 1950s and the sixteenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to make y ...Show more
Road To Redemption: A Championship Journey by Scott McLaughlin, Tim Hodges
$54.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Lake Tyrrell, in the Mallee region in north-west Victoria, has become an unlikely tourism hot-spot, with people flocking there to see the beautiful sunrises and sunsets and take in the way the sky is reflected on the lake’s shallow waters. Photographer Anne Morley has produced the best-known collection ...Show more
The Long Story : A personal journey through inter-racial relations in Australia by Wayne Graham Long Perrett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Waynes story is interwoven with the historical, political and social events that have impacted on inter-racial relations in Australia for more than two hundred years, from Cooks landing to Mabo, from the Frontier Wars to the 1987 Goondiwindi riots, from the White Australia Policy to Paul Keatings Redfer ...Show more