Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law by Alecia Simmonds
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australia
Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archives of law Until well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia had a legal redress for their suffering- jilted lovers could claim compensation for 'breach of promise to marry'. Hu ...Show more
Back Roads #2: The Scenic Route by Heather Ewart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australia
From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia's inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV's Back Roads has taken us across Australia, through scorched deserts, along sapphire coasts, up breathtaking mountains and over gentle, roll ...Show more
Remembering Aboriginal Heroes by John Ramsland, Christopher Mooney
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australia
During the 1940s and '50s in Australia there rose to prominence many icons of Aboriginal descent, representative of the culture of the day and of their own people. Some permanently influenced the minds of Australians and remain famous to this day. Others have been unjustly forgotten.Albert Namatjira was ...Show more
They Rescued Us - Aboriginal Heroes on Country by Fred Cahir
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australia
This book acknowledges the rescues of thousands of colonists by Aboriginal people from life threatening situations such as bush fires, floods, shipwrecks and being lost in the bush. It pays tribute to their knowledge, mercy and courage they showed by freely rescuing the invaders who sought to occupy the ...Show more
Line of Blood: The Truth of Alfred Howitt by Craig Horne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
'In reading the book, parts of Howitt's character made my skin crawl, but the uncovering of his life was revelatory ... I believe the publication of Line of Blood will be at a very pertinent time' -Bruce PascoeLine of Blood- The Truth of Alfred Howitt tells the full story of Australia's so-called 'ables ...Show more
Bound for Australia: A Guide to the Records of Transported Convicts and Early Settlers by David T. Hawkings
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Bound for Australia is the essential guide to the records kept in Britain of those who were sent there as punishment or who went to start a new life, and will be an invaluable tool for any family historian who discovers an ancestor amongst their number and who wants to trace their antipodean relatives. ...Show more
Floating Prisons: Convict Voyages to New South Wales 1823-37 by Anne McMahon
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Most people think of Australia's convict past as decidedly English. Anne McMahon tells the story of the Irish prisoners roped into the British transportation scheme. Poverty, civil unrest and overcrowded prisons in Ireland from 1823 to 1837 led to thousands of men being sentenced to transportation to Au ...Show more
Haunted Australia: Ghosts of the Great Southern Land by J. G. Montgomery
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Australia has a dark side embedded in the landscape, deserts, convict-built gaols, museums, public houses, and civic buildings. It has a harsh history of brutality and cruelty based on a convict past, so there is little wonder it is haunted. Find here over 150 ghostly locations covering the Australian C ...Show more
I Once Met a Man - R. M. Williams by R. M. Williams; John Howard (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Understand, then, that these chapters are concerned with the spirit of men and women from whom something of worth has shone out to make them worthy of record. You will note that the book is not of deeds, achievement, great honour; just that indefinable something that has no other name in our language bu ...Show more
On the Sheeps Back by Axiom Publishing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australia
It is great to see a book put together with stories directly from the mouths of people who have been in the industry for many years. Their stories are not the tales of fishermen but of fact, about the characters who for years made up the shearing industry.
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History
Dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth and economic devastation: we feel we understand drought and yet there is more to this story. Australias long history of drought has goaded people to adapt and respond creatively. This book explores the way people have lived and worked with drought from the nineteenth ...Show more