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
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
Of Marsupials and Men by Alistair Paton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A brilliantly entertaining history of Australia's weird and wonderful natural scientists 'A fascinating history of Australia's wildlife and the wilder men and women who shot, studied and saved it ... Compelling and entertaining.' -David Hunt Of Marsupials and Men recounts the fascinating and often hilar ...Show more
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
Great Furphies of Australian History: What you really need to know - the truth behind the myths by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Au ...Show more
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more
The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems by Sarah Maddison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy - from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition - government policies and programs have made little positive diffe ...Show more
Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER by Paul Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'We're not perfect, but we're working on it' -- Hoges' love letter to Australia Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have been coming ever since, ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more
The Clarke Gang: Outlawed, Outcast and Forgotten by Peter C. Smith
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Who were the Clarke Gang? Ten years or more before Ned Kelly became famous the Clarke brothers and their associates were terrorising an area stretching from present day Canberra to the coast from 1865 to 1867. They intimidated, assaulted, robbed and murdered police and civilians alike. They had no hesit ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Yarns by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more