Old Vintage Melbourne, 1960-1990 by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australia
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne, this collection invites you again to turn back time and revisit the diverse past of the much-loved city of Melbourne. This captivating compilation of photographs taken between 1960 and 1990 provides a fascinating glimpse of a time that is familiar and yet different, w ...Show more
Talking To My Country: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australia
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
Gold TailingsForgotten History of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields by Charles Fahey
$44.00 AUD
Category: Australia
"... Gold tailings explores the private and often forgotten lives of the gold settlers who built these communities. ... moves beyond the sterotypes of rootless single male diggers and analyses how enduring communities were formed when male gold diggers - who often travelled with mates and kin - were joi ...Show more
The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads by Ameliah Scott
$17.50 AUD
Category: Australia
The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads. "The inspiring story of the intrepid Dr Ameliah Scott - the Flying Vet extraordinaire - and the animals and community of the Australian outback. Ame ...Show more
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australia
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
Wild Heart of Tasmania: A Living History of Lake Malbena and the Western Lakes by Greg French
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Wild Heart of Tasmania is a lively collection of stories centred around a highland wilderness. It portrays bushwalking and backcountry fishing as a way of life, and historic bush huts as social fabric. In the early 2000s, Greg French was approached by a talented young fly fisher to write a foreword to ...Show more
Homeland Heroes - From Australian Disasters Heroes Are Born by Mal Walden
$25.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Australia's favourite newsman, Mal Walden, continues his theme of unique Australian stories with Homeland Heroes. This is a tribute to those who have demonstrated incredible bravery and self-sacrifice in the face of overwhelming odds. Out of disasters, heroes are born. Homeland Heroes pays tribute to o ...Show more
Wild Love: The ambitions of Adelaide Ironside by Kiera Lindsey
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Kiera Lindsey uncovers the life of the talented and exuberant colonial painter Adelaide Ironside, following in her footsteps from the shores of Sydney harbour to the leading artistic circles of Europe. Colonial lasses were expected to marry at 16, but she wanted to be an artist, not a wife, and she had ...Show more
Sh*t Towns of Australia by Rick Furphy; Geoff Rissole
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The hilarious guide to the shittest towns in Australia.
Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860s-1930s by Philip Jones
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Between 1870 and 1920, as many as 2,000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across ou ...Show more