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A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australia
"A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
Beyond Reasonable Drought: Photographs of a Changing Land and Its People by Don Watson (Forward)
$16.99 AUD
$39.95 (57% off)
Category: Australia
There has been nothing like it in living memory. Theories about cycles and seasons struggle to explain it. Early this century, as drought gripped the nation, a group of photographers crisscrossed the country, and captured a seismic shift in the way Australians were living their lives. Caught in these ph ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
On Indignation( On Series) by Don Watson
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: On Ser.
Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos, from the Old Testament to ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australia
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...Show more
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious) by Don Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are - and who we are likely to become. Don Watson's The Story of Australia is a modern history of our nation that integrates new understandings about Ind ...Show more
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
Watsonia: A Writing Life by Don Watson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale... Watsonia collects the fruits of a writing life. It covers everything from Australian bush humour to America gone berserk; from Don Bradman to Oscar Wilde; from Animal Farmto the Australian parliament. Wher ...Show more
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