The Outback Wrangler by Matt Wright
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
" Any animal, anywhere, any time.' u Matt Wright Wildlife expert and chopper pilot Matt Wright was born for a life of action and adventure. Raised in the wilds of Papua New Guinea and outback Australia, he would catch turtles before school for show and tell or gather deadly brown snakes just for fun. Ma ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
Colony: Australia 1770 1861 / Frontier Wars by Cathy Leahy, Judith Ryan
$80.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
This publication explores Australia's shared history. Featuring works from the National Gallery of Victoria and key collections throughout Australia, it highlights the multiple perspectives on our colonial history through new scholarship and first-person statements from contemporary artists. This volume ...Show more
Stepping off: Rewilding and Belonging to the South-West by Thomas M. Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
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The River by Brian Simmonds
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Award-winning artist Brian Simmonds brings Australia's waterways to life with his oils and mixed media colour paintings and sketches. Over ninety beautiful illustrations accompany uniquely local poetry and prose from well-known writers such as John Kinsella, T A G Hungerford and Elizabeth Jolley. The pe ...Show more
Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by Deborah Burrows
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
From the First Nation caregivers who healed, birthed and nursed for millennia to the untrained and ill-equipped convict men and women who cared for the sick in the fledgling colony of New South Wales, nursing has been practised in Australia since the beginning. It would take the arrival of a group of de ...Show more
The Harbour by Scott Bevan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In the bestselling tradition of Peter Ackroyd's The Thames, a celebration of one of the world's great waterwaysEveryone knows Sydney Harbour. At least, we think we do.Everyone can see the harbour, whether we have ever been to Sydney or not. By as little as a word or two, the harbour floats into our mind ...Show more
Cage Of Ghosts by Jon Rhodes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Cage of Ghosts is a landmark publication. In this richly illustrated and thought-provoking book, photographer and writer Jon Rhodes takes the reader on a search for reminders of the almost invisible Aboriginal presence in south-eastern Australia, where the impact of European settlement has been the most ...Show more
The Bushfire Book: How to Be Aware and Prepare by Polly Marsden; Chris Nixon (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
An accessible and reassuring picture book that teaches children what they need to know about bushfires so they can understand what's happening and be smart and prepared, not scared. Australia is a big country with all sorts of weather. And sometimes extreme weather like bushfires. Bushfires can make a r ...Show more
Under the Wintamarra Tree (Rabbit-Proof Fence Sequel) by Doris Pilkington
$24.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The wintamarra tree is a permanent reminder of the beginning of my life. The journey of healing and the healing process is similar to the wintamarra tree. It's always been there waiting for me to come and reconnect to my birthplace. Doris Pilkington Garimara's sequel to Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Big Book of Great Australian Bush Yarns by Graham Seal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Two of Graham Seal's bestselling collections of stories from around Australia, now in one volume.
Homecoming: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Elfie Shiosaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in ...Show more