The Outback by Boolarong Press
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This collection of short stories about the Outback is the result of the inaugural writing competition for the Outback Writers Festival held in Winton on 21, 22, 23 June 2016.
Horseman of the Outback: Their Spurs and Spurmakers by Don John Edward Corcoran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is an extremely well researched work which will be treasured by all horse riders. It is a very thorough account of Australian spurs and the bush blacksmiths like Fred Gutte who designed his on Wave Hill Station, but is is much more that that. If offers a romantic folklore of the horsemaen who used ...Show more
Early Merchant Families of Sydney: Speculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of Empire by Janette Holcomb
$44.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Establishing business enterprise in a tiny, remote penal settlement appears to defy the principles of sustainable demand and supply. Yet early Sydney attracted a number of business entrepreneurs, including Campbell, Riley and Walker. If the development of private enterprise in early colonial Australia i ...Show more
Skirmish Hill by Bill Stanford
$44.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Skirmish Hill exists in remote and off-limits Aboriginal land in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia. The book generally encapsulates the time from the Second Fleet, the Death Fleet, from England to Australia, up to the sailing in 1914 of the First Convoy that carried 34 troopships of the ori ...Show more
Collits' Inn PB - Uncovering the Past: Surprises Found in Restoring this 1823 Australian Icon by Christine Stewart (Illustrator)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Ben Hall's Last Days - The End of the Road for Australia's Greatest Bushranger by John Donohoe
$31.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An account of the last 8 days in the life the bushranger, Ben Hall.It includes a background and a summation of what happened.
The Red Centre - Australian Geographic Guide by Katrina O'Brien
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil by Royce Kurmelovs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A riveting expose of the global oil industry's multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to address environmental devastation. Slick- Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil takes a comprehensive ...Show more
Critical Care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis by Geraldine Fela
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Critical Care paints a vivid and nuanced picture of HIV and AIDS nursing and sheds light on an unexamined aspect of Australia’s AIDS crisis. HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses were caregivers and activists, bot ...Show more
Fighting for Justice: The Donald Thomson Story by Robert Macklin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Donald Thomson at 10 years old was a lone figure in Melbourne’s Bayside with its billabongs and creeks meandering to the sea. In his ‘Naturalist’s Diary’, he recorded his collection of wildflowers to wattles, seabirds to tiny blue wrens, mammals to reptiles to fish and to insects of every shape and hue. ...Show more
TRACY - 50 Years, 50 Stories
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
50 stories from survivors of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974.Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a s ...Show more
The Great Aussie Road Trip - New Back Roads book from the host of the popular ABC TV series: 20 spectacular trips to take around our special land 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 ...Show more