Monash : The Soldier Who Shaped Australia by Grantlee Kieza
$29.99 AUD
$39.99 (25% off)
Category: Australia
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia - the first major biography of Monash in over a decade John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider, poor, Jewish in an era which still practiced anti-Semitism, bookish at a ti ...Show more
Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Cattlemen by GLEN MCLAREN
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Previously overshadowed in the public imagination by notions of American cowboys and the wild west, Australian stockmen are given the place they so richly deserve in pastoral and Australian history in this insightful study. From the lonely months on a long cattle drive to the boots they wore and the pla ...Show more
Following Burke and Wills Across Australia : A Touring Guide by Dave Phoenix
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Following Burke and Wills Across Australia guides you on a road trip that follows one of history's great transcontinental journeys, sharing the explorers' experiences on the way. Maps lay out a route that takes you as close as possible to the Expedition's track. As you travel the outback roads, you can ...Show more
Great Australian Journeys by Graham Seal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australia
A fascinating collection of some of Australia's most dramatic journeys from the 19th and early 20th century: epics of exploration, survival and tragedy, stories of mystery and romance, and of discovery and loss.
Kangaroo Dundee by Chris Barns
$12.99 AUD
$29.99 (56% off)
Category: Australia
Brolga (aka Chris Barns) is the 6ft 7in strong but sensitive Aussie star of the extraordinary BBC series Kangaroo Dundee. Brolga lives in a simple tin shed in the outback where he raises orphaned baby kangaroos. It is a sad fact of life that kangaroo mothers are at the mercy of speeding cars in this par ...Show more
Us Women, Our Ways, Our World by Pat Dudgeon (Editor); Jeannie Herbert (Editor); Jill Milroy (Editor); Darlene Oxenham (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australia
An exemplar of Indigenous Studies writing, epistemologically, theoretically and methodologically A collection of writings on women and Aboriginal identity from 14 senior Indigenous academics and community leaders. The collection engages with questions such as: What makes Aboriginal women strong? Why are ...Show more
Bush Doctors by Annabelle Brayley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Imagine yourself critically injured or seriously ill in the middle of nowhere. You'd be hoping like hell there was a doctor nearby to take charge; someone resourceful, who'd think quickly and stay calm under pressure; someone who could, if necessary, take charge from a distance. You'd want to be in the ...Show more
Courage in the Skies: The Untold Story of Qantas, its Brave Men and Women and Their Extraordinary Role in World War II by Jim Eames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
This is the extraordinary and little known story of Qantas' significant role during World War II, particularly in its campaigns against the Japanese. It is a story of truly heroic deeds during the fall of Singapore, taking munitions and military personnel up and refugees back, of escape and subterfuge a ...Show more
Those Wild Rabbits: How They Shaped Australia by Bruce Munday
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia
A century ago Australia was home to 10 billion rabbits, thriving in their adopted home. Storyteller Bruce Munday finds the rabbit saga irresistible - the naive hopes of the early settlers, the frustration, environmental damage, cost to agriculture, dreams shattered, and the lessons learned and ignored. ...Show more
Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney by Paul Irish
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip's arrival in Sydney in 1788. Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record ...Show more
Run for Your Life by Bob Carr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Most political memoirs are boring.Bob Carr tears up the rules. He plunges in, beginning with the despair of a young man pining for a political career, convinced he's going nowhere, then vaulting to the exhilaration of a premier who, on one day, saves a vast forest and unveils the country's best curricul ...Show more
In Search of Captain Cook - Exploring the man through his own words by Dan O'Sullivan
$19.99 AUD
$59.95 (66% off)
Category: Australia