Silo Art: Australia's Outdoor Art Revolution by Alasdair McGregor
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia’s outdoor art/mural revolution is a visual feast with stunning images of murals, silos and water towers from right around Australia, including the 27-story Adnate Hotel, Perth, named in honour of one of the key exponents of the artform and featuring Australia’s tallest painting. Meet the artis ...Show more
Iwantja: An exuberant new movement in contemporary Indigenous art by IWANTJA ARTS
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Located on a small ridge at the edge of the Indulkana Ranges, approximately 575 kilometres south of Alice Springs, Iwantja Arts art centre is home to some of Australia's most exciting Indigenous art. The art centre, a studio collective where the artists meet, socialise and make art, was founded in the ...Show more
MINNIE BERRINGTON: The Remarkable Story of a True Trailblazer Who Found Freedom and Adventure in the Outback by Marianne van Velzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia. People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington wa ...Show more
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Outlaw - The Story of Joe Flick by Greg Barron
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
When anthropologist Robert Morris arrives at the old Doomadgee Mission, at Bayley Point near Burketown in 1934, he's intent on learning local languages and customs. One very old woman living there, he discovers, was originally from outback New South Wales, and is something of an outcast amongst the Waan ...Show more
Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Second Edition by Arthur Bill
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia has a place on the work table of every Australian student, on the coffee table of every Australian home and on the desk of every Australian political representative.' Senator Patrick Dodson The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia is a unique tool for expl ...Show more
Trauma Trails: Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous AustraliaTrauma by Judy Atkinson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Taking readers into the depths of sadness and despair and into the heights of celebration and hope, this disturbing account details the trauma suffered by Australia's indigenous people and the resultant "trauma trails" spread throughout the country.
Nabbing Ned Kelly: The Extraordinary True Story of the Men Who Brought Australia’s Notorious Outlaw to Justice by David Dufty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
David Dufty goes back to the records to uncover the real story of the police officers who pursued the Kelly Gang. This pacey account of the capture of the Kelly Gang reads like a detective story. He lurched through the smoke, his armour glinting in the moonlight, and started shooting. To the weary men ...Show more
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
Every Man and His Dog by David Darcy
$19.98 AUD
Category: Australiana
Since Indigenous Australians first shared their lives with dingoes thousands of years ago, dogs have been part of the fabric of everyday life in Australia. David Darcy explores this timeless bond between man and dog. Traveling around Australia, from the coast to the Outback, David photographed blokes fr ...Show more
Edith Blake’s War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War by Krista Vane-Tempest
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for France to pick up wounded men from the killing fields of the Western Front. Onboard was 32-year-old Australian nurse, Edith Blake. After being torpedoed by a German U-boat, the ...Show more
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more