Tales from the Bush: Footloose reflections on the walking life by Quentin Chester
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
This collection of stories explores the ragged, liberating charms of bushwalking and the outdoor life in Australia.
Lighthouses of Australia: The Offshore Lights by Ibbotson, John
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
I Once Met a Man - R. M. Williams by R. M. Williams; John Howard (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
$39.99 (37% off)
Category: Australiana
Understand, then, that these chapters are concerned with the spirit of men and women from whom something of worth has shone out to make them worthy of record. You will note that the book is not of deeds, achievement, great honour; just that indefinable something that has no other name in our language bu ...Show more
The Winding Road - Secrets of an Outback Entrepreneur by Alice Mabin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
This book is a game changer! The Winding Road is witty, charming and makes you think twice about the way "life has to be done". Alice Mabin's unfailing persistence and tenacity is inspiring. She is right - life is too short not to do what you love. The Winding Road reminds us, that if you are prepared t ...Show more
The Best Australian Bush Stories by Jim Haynes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's national character and spirit have always been defined, rightly or wrongly, by "the bush." This entertaining, thought-provoking, humorous, nostalgic, and, above all, highly readable collection of stories for the modern reader shows why the romance endures. From Jim Haynes, one of the country ...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
Born in 1949?: What Else happened? by Ron Williams
$24.99 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
Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3 by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Libera ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Yarns: Volume 1 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. When he'd finished playing, a solemn silence fell as Brian and the gravediggers stared down into that three-quarter-filled hole. 'I must a ...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