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
Songlines and Fault Lines by Morrison, Glenn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing- wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place of black and white, ancient and modern. Songlines and Fault Lines ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People - Volume 2 by Geoffrey Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australia
An accomplishment of both great sweep and impressive detail, Geoffrey Blainey's ambitious account of this country, The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia, takes us from the gold rush to the present day. It marks the culmination of a lifelong study by one of Australia's mos ...Show more
Amazing Grace: Great Australian Bush Priest Stories by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Great Australian stories of faith and friendship in outback Australia, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh - bestselling author of Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories and Great Australian CWA Stories. 'The term "Bible bashing" took on new meaning in our household ...Mum used to suffer from ...Show more
Bruce Postle: Australia by Bruce Postle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
For more than five decades, multi-award-winning press photographer Bruce Postle captured significant moments in Australian life. In Australia, Bruce Postle captures the places, people and characteristics that make Australia unique. From the sunburnt centre to the roaring surf, charismatic heroes ...Show more
Country Australia by Nick Rains
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australia
While the majority of Australians live close to the coast, the heart of our nation is still in the country, as spectacularly displayed in this collection of photographs by renowned photographer Nick Rains. Lens by lens, click by click, the photographs in Country Australia encourage us to 'go bush' and s ...Show more
Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Great Australian Stories
Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback. If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. this collection of more than sixty s ...Show more
Great Australian Stories: Outback Towns and Pubs by Bill Marsh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
The people you'll meet will touch your heart as Swampy brings to life all the drama and delight of life in outback Australia. There's the story of Frederick Aloysius Millard, the only dog ever to become a member of a Citizens Club in Australia, thanks to the vote of a woman who was sure she'd been intro ...Show more
Iconic Melbourne by Mark Rusic (Original Author, Artist, Photographer, Text by, Prepared for Publication by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Iconic Melbourne Australian showcases more than 20 of Melbourne's finest locations utilising artist, Mark Rusic's own original collection of paintings, poetry and photography, to present Melbourne in a most unique, dynamic and fresh way. What sets Iconic Melbourne Australia apart is not only how we lea ...Show more
Kings in Grass Castles) CD) by Mary Durack
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Classic Ser.
"'Cattle Kings' ye call us, then we are Kings in grass castles that may be blown away upon a puff of wind..." - Patrick Durack, 1878. When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia. ...Show more
Stories That Changed Australia - 50 Years of Four Corners by Sally Neighbour
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
A collection of articles from a who's who of Australian journalism, this book marks 50 years on air for the ABC's current affairs flagship program. Structured around themes of Politics, Crime and Corruption, War and Terrorism, Immigration and the Environment, this book will chart the development of some ...Show more