A Farming Life: Tales of resilience from inspiring rural women by Liz Harfull
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Bestselling author Liz Harfull shares fascinating true stories of rural Australian women, showcasing the passion, tenacity and resilience required to make a life on the land. Making a living on the land in Australia can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years of seemingly endless droughts, ...Show more
Sludge: Disaster on Victoria's Goldfields by Susan Lawrence
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, drowning it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste- 's ...Show more
Fighting Spirit by VARIOUS
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Australia's Black Summer of 2019-20 will never be forgotten. The tragedy of lost lives, homes, livelihoods, land and wildlife, and the subsequent rallying of courageous communities across the country are captured in this unique photographic tribute to the fighting spirit of the people of Australia. Incl ...Show more
Justice in Kelly Country: The Story of the Cop Who Hunted Australia's Most Notorious Bushrangers by Lachlan Strahan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Part way through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening him: 'he would not ask me to stand he would shoot me first like a dog'. Those few fateful words have echoed through Australian history as the cause of much bloodshed and violence. They marked Anthon ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the green fields of Tasmania to the vast red sands of Simpson Desert.The unique characters of the outback will touch your heart as Swampy presents all the drama and delight of life i ...Show more
More Great Properties of Country Victoria: The Western District's Golden Age by Richard Allen, Kimbal Baker
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australia
English novelist Anthony Trollope described the Western District squatters in the 1870s as 'plentiful, proud, prejudiced, given to hospitality, impatient of contradiction a thoughtful on the future, and above all, conscious-perhaps a little too conscious-of their own importance a forty thousand sheep ca ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
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
The Ballad of Abdul Wade: The Incredible True Story of Australia's unsung Pioneering Heroes - The Afghan Camelleers by Ryan Butta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero. Horses couldn t access many remote settlements, especially those stricken by flood or drought, and camel trains rode to the rescue time and time again. But with success came fierce opposition fuel ...Show more
Retro Sydney by Nathan Mete
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australia
A collection of beautiful photographs of Australia's first city that invites you to immerse yourself and revisit the cool, quirky, glamorous, exciting, menacing, and wonderful times of Retro Sydney.This collection of photographs celebrates the vibrant and exciting coming of age of Australia's first city ...Show more
Australia - A Beautiful Continent: A beautiful continent by New Holland Publishers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia
This book features Australia at it’s best; a land of great diversity and contrast. This book covers our fascinating outback to our beautiful coastlines, glorious beaches and rugged landscapes along with our majestic islands that makes Australia a country so unique. Covering all states, this chunky littl ...Show more
Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australia
As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day. Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, S ...Show more
Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australia
An enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years. In 1835, as he walked the sacred grounds of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations, John Batman wrote in his d ...Show more