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
Outback Adventures: Tales from the Top End and Beyond by Matt Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Raised in the wilds of Far North Queensland, Papua New Guinea and outback Australia, as a child Matt Wright would catch deadly snakes for fun or lizards and turtles for show and tell at school.Now the star of National Geographic's worldwide smash TV show, Outback Wrangler,is taking us on a wild adventur ...Show more
Purple Threads: First Nations Classics by Jeanine Leane, Evelyn Araluen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her days playing on the hills near their farmhouse and he ...Show more
The Last of the Nomads by W. J. Peasley
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Category: Australian Studies
Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their deaths in the late 1970s marked the end of a tribal lifestyle that stretched back more than 30,000 years. The Last of the Nomads tells of an extraordinary journey i ...Show more
Bidhi Galing: Big Rain by Anita Heiss
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Category: Australian Studies
Powerful and moving, Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) celebrates the Wiradyuri heroes of the Great Flood of Gundagai in 1852, told through the eyes of a young girl who is rescued from the raging floodwaters by her father. Wagadhaany grew up near the Marrambidya Bila. She loved dancing in the rain and listening ...Show more
Flinders by Grantlee Kieza
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Category: Australian Studies
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead - a p ...Show more