Stranger Country by Monica Tan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Tracks meets Wild in this account of Chinese Australian journalist Monica Tan's 6 month odyssey though outback Australia. 'Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian? . . . I was 32 years old and barely knew the country of my birth. It was time to ...Show more
Rock Paintings of Aboriginal A by Malnic J ; Godden E
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Mysterious, dramatic, enlightening. Aboriginal rock paintings of Australia are extraordinary glimpses into a culture older than European civilisations, yet still immensely vibrant today.
Back Roads 3: The Great Aussie Road Trip by Heather Ewart
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Heather's favourite road trips around Australia, revealing towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. There's no better way to see this vast country of ours than by hitting roads along the coastline, or heading inland t ...Show more
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
Island Story - Tasmania in Object and Text by Ralph Crane; Danielle Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A handsome full-colour book pairing unique items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with selections of original writing about the southern island.Indigenous dispossession, a cruel penal history, gay-rights battles; exceptional landscapes, unusual wildlife, environmental activism; colonial archite ...Show more
The Torrent: A True Story of Hope and Survival by Amanda Gearing
$15.00 AUD
$29.95 (49% off)
Category: Australiana
On 10 January 2011, after weeks of heavy rain and as floodwaters began to overwhelm much of south-east Queensland, a 'wall of water' hit Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley. The Torrenttells the extraordinary stories of survival and loss that emerged from that terrible day. Official figures state that twen ...Show more
We, The Aborigines by Lockwood Douglas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Stories of Aboriginal people culture, including Albert Namatjira. Tribes represented: Aranda , Djumindjung, Wailbri , Pitjentjarra Nongomeri , Iwaija , Jabu and Moola Boola Douglas Lockwood began writing books based on his own knowledge and experiences with the Aborigines of northern and central Austral ...Show more
In Search of Kings by Tony Debolfo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
the classic Australian migrant story from acclaimed writer and journalist tony de Bolfo. In 1994, Melbourne journalist tony De Bolfo developed a burning need to discover what prompted his grandfather and two brothers to leave their homeland in northern Italy for a new life in Australia. He turned to his ...Show more
Beyond the Outback - Gulf Women of Remote North West Queensland by Bronwyn Blake
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country', near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and can cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them: floods, drought, sickness, emergencies. W ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling People and Environment by Matthew Colloff
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'Compelling, multifarious and essential.'- Don Watson'Drink in its wisdom.'- Andrew Leigh MPWINNER OF 2021 NSW PREMIER'S HISTORY AWARDOn this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them.If we look afresh at our history through the land we liv ...Show more