A Million Wild Acres: 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest by Eric Rolls
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. By popular demand from a number of libraries and institutions, Hale and Iremonger will be producing a hardcover edition of Eric Roll's A MILLION WILD ACRES in a very short run of 300 copies. This will be a very useful Christmas gift for the serious reader of Australian history ...Show more
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer by Robert Macklin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as well ...Show more
Dampier, the Dutch and the Great South Land by Rob Mundle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's bestselling maritime historian explores the story of how the Dutch discovered Australia. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance w ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1908 English gentleman, Ernest Westlake, packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the mo ...Show more
Kidman The Forgotten King by Jill Bowen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
As a barely literate yough of 13, Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history. During his lifetime he acquired a legendary reputation both at home and abroad. This is the story of hi ...Show more
The First Fleet by Rob Mundle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition unde ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have m ...Show more
Island Home by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is a ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more