Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's lost generation by Ross McMullin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing number of losses -- on the sheer qua ...Show more
The Complete Book of Australian Flying Doctor Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Royal Flying Doctor Service is a unique icon of Australian culture. Since its beginnings with the Reverend John Flynn in 1928, the RFDS has helped build our nation. The Flying Doctors, and the remote stations and communities that they serve, have become enduring symbols of what it means to be Austra ...Show more
The Colony: a History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blu ...Show more
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more
Bad Ground: Inside the Beaconsfield mine disaster by Tony Wright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bad Ground is the exclusive, authorised story of the 14-day entombment and rescue of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell and the fascinating aftermath. The blast and rock fall which occurred one kilometre underground on Anzac Day, 25 April 2006 killed their fellow worker, Larry Knight and le ...Show more
Australian Slang: A fun dictionary and funny gift idea for Aussies and visitors by Anon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as ...Show more
Australia Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Remember grabbing a copy of the late edition afternoon paper from the paper boy? Watching a Graham Kennedy skit on TV? Did you buy a 45rpm single or a 33rpm album at your local record shop? And play it on your record player? If you answered yes to any of these questions chances are you are part of the B ...Show more
Radical Heart Three Stories Make Us One by Shireen Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Neither Indigenous nor white, Shireen Morris is both outside observer and instrumental insider in the fight for Indigenous rights. Shaped by her family's Indian and Fijian migrant story, Morris is a key player in what many consider the greatest moral challenge of our nation- constitutional recognition o ...Show more
Life and Adventures William Buckley: Text Classics by Tim Flannery, William Buckley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the 'wild white man' lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, The Life and Adventure ...Show more
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
FLINDERS brings to life the fascinating story of this exceptional maritime explorer - from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel imprisonment by the French on Mauritius for six long and harrowing years; the heartbreaking separation from his ...Show more
The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817 by Dr Stephen Gapps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians--described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist--around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative bo ...Show more
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more