Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
RIVER MURRAY CHARTS RENMARK TO YARRAWONGA by WRIGHT MAUREEN
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Galah: Stories of life outside the city by Annabelle Hickson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the f ...Show more
Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin: A Contested History by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s food bowl, is in crisis. For more than a century, the Basin has faced a series of environmental catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recognised wet ...Show more
Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Life by Harry Allen
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian
William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led an expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life. Blandowski explores the potential of images to por ...Show more
The Life and Times of the Murray Cod by Paul Humphries
$59.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Murray cod is Australia’s largest and most iconic freshwater fish. Tales of the species have long been part of Australian folklore and this book describes its history, biology, cultural significance and conservation.The Life and Times of the Murray Cod reveals the many roles the species has played t ...Show more
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neigh ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
See How We Roll Enduring Exile Between Desert And Urban Australia by Hinkson Melinda
$45.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Global Insecurities Ser.
In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide. Banished from her hometown, Nungarrayi energetically navigates promises of transformation as well a ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia, and offers a solution for genuinely affordable housing for those who need it. Everyone claims to want affordable housing, but no one wants cheap housing. While Australians on regular incomes dre ...Show more