Dark Tales from the Long River: A Bloody History of Australia's North-West Frontier by David Price
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shock ...Show more
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
Kimberley Bush Medicine: Medicinal Plants of the Kimberley Region of Western Australia by Madison King, John Horsfall
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Kimberley Bush Medicine is a comprehensive guide to the medicinal plants that were regularly used by the Indigenous people of the Kimberley region, providing alternative treatments and protection from common ailments. Authors Madison King and retired nurse educator John Horsfall have compiled this inval ...Show more
Australia's Creative Native Cuisine by Andrew Fielke
$39.99 AUD
Category: Cooking Food and Wine
"Here are over 135 of my recipes featuring the unique flavours, aromas and textures of Australia's native and wild ingredients, along with notes on their characteristics as well as usage and sourcing. Substitute ingredients are provided for those times a certain ingredient may be temporarily unavailable ...Show more
History Mysteries: The Lost Explorer by Mark Greenwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: History Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
In 1848 the famous explorer Ludwig Leichhardt sets out on an epic journey. His aim is to cross Australia from east to west, but he never reaches his destination and no one from his expedition is ever seen again. Countless search parties set out to look for the expedition but no trace is ever found. Unti ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent ...Show more
The Spirit of Rural Australia by Davison Liam Conquest Jim
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
"The Spirit of Rural Australia" focuses on the nature of rural landscapes and communities. The photography has a nostalgic theme that reflects on past farming practices, institutions and key occupations fundamental to rural Australia, while at the same time the text considers the changes which are occur ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
Planting Dreams - Shaping Australian Gardens by Richard Aitken
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals | Reading Level: very good
'A garden should ...be just a little too big to keep the whole cultivated. Then it gives it a chance to go a little wild in spots' - Edna Walling, landscape designer Waratah or wattle? Chrysanthemum or rose? Planting Dreams celebrates the artistry and imagination that have shaped Australian gardens. Res ...Show more
Outback Legends by Evan McHugh
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
These people are very different, but they have much in common. They?re the salt of the outback, but they?re not from long ago and far away. You can rub shoulders with them here and now. They?re our outback legends.Immerse yourself in these armchair travels and heart-warming life stories as Evan McHugh, ...Show more