Retro Melbourne - Flexi by Fred Mitchell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Mini Retro Melbourne is an exciting and colourfulwalk down memory lane. Showcasing rare photos ofone the most beautiful and iconic cities in the world,Mini Retro Melebourne is a fantastic visual throwbackto the last century, with many never before seen imagesby photographer Fred Mitchell. Breathtaking p ...Show more
Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands by Ngarukuruwala Women’s Group
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture of the Tiwi Islands through song. The songs presented in this book hold cultural, genealogical, geographical and spiritual knowledge that has been passed down through thousa ...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
A Shot of History: Convict Hell by Cameron, David W.
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: A Shot of History
The year 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. This convict penal settlement located on the isolated primeval rugged west coast of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) quickly gained a reputation as an ‘Earthy Hell’.
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
Born in 1946?: What Else happened? by Ron Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories in engaging, conversational style, such as war brides, rationing, polio and TB. A great gift for hard-to-buy for 70 year old relatives and friends; entertaining, instructive and charming.
Born in 1948?: 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
Plants: Past, Present and Future (First Knowledges) by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
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. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An original and riveting biography of two of the most singular women Australia has ever seen.Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Wes ...Show more
Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Second Edition by Arthur Bill
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia has a place on the work table of every Australian student, on the coffee table of every Australian home and on the desk of every Australian political representative.' Senator Patrick Dodson The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia is a unique tool for expl ...Show more