Scaly-Tailed Possum and Echidna by Cathy Goonack
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children
Passed down from generation to generation by the Kandiwal Aboriginal community, this engaging story explains how the scaly-tailed possum got its scaly tail and how the echidna—one of Australia’s most unusual mammals—got its spikes. Vividly illustrated by Kandiwal children, this traditional tale is not o ...Show more
Grow Your Own Bushfoods by Keith and Irene Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Grown Your Own Bushfoods is the first ever comprehensive and practical guide to growing and harvesting more than 140 kinds of Australian bushfoods right in your own backyard. Detailed plant profiles describe ideal growing conditions and characteristics of each species. In addition there are suggestions ...Show more
Finding the Lightning Man by David M. Welch; Reggie Sultan (Illustrator)
$22.00 AUD
Category: Children
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinge ...Show more
Beware the Argula! by Kirsty Burgu
$27.99 AUD
Category: Children
Age range 4+'It may seem like a simple story but Beware the Argula! Is also a warning to everyone to be careful when they go out bush. I know these Argula exist, I have felt their presence – and there is rock art depicting the Argula along the Kimberley coast. Some people in the Kimberley and all over A ...Show more
Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story by Banjo Woorunmurra, Howard Pedersen
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
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Last Truck Out by Betty Lockyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
WWII, 1942 - Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 12 ...Show more
The Australian Aboriginal by Herbert Basedow
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Australian Aboriginal, originally written in 1925, describes the ceremonial and day-to-day lives of traditional Aboriginal people, as witnessed by Herbert Basedow, who from 1903 travelled the most remote areas of Australia. This book is a reissued edition with a new forward by David M. Welch and man ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more