End of an Era by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Len Beadell's team had to contend with flat tyres and broken gear boxes as well as all the natural difficulties of the outback as they endeavoured to build three highways in one year! On one forward reconnaissance Beadell discovered a small group of Aborigines who had never before seen a white person, a ...Show more
Pioneer Women of the Outback Bush by Isaacs, Jennifer
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
This book is a fascinating insight into the daily lives of women from a variety of backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Chinese, Indian and German woman. Pioneer Women provides a unique portrait of how women set up and ran their remote bush hom ...Show more
Weed Forager's Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia by Adam Grubb, Annie Raser-Rowland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Step into the world of our least admired botanical companions. Peel back the layers of prejudice and discover the finer side of the plants we call weeds. An astonishing number are either edible or medicinal, and have deep and sometimes bizarre connections to human history.With chapters on:* Appreciating ...Show more
James Cook - The story behind the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
HE STORY BEHIND THE MAN WHO MAPPED THE WORLD The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost ma ...Show more
Exiles by Jane Harper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Aaron Falk | Reading Level: very good
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds. A year on, Kim Gillespie's absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition to the family. Joi ...Show more
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land (h/B) by Maggie MacKellar
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life – and death – th ...Show more
Trackers : The Untold Story of Australian Dogs of War by Peter Haran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary
The story of the Australian army's little-known use of combat tracker dogs during the Vietnam War. A war veteran tells his story with immediacy, blending the terror of hunting and encountering the elusive Viet Cong with the tender relationship between a naive young Australian soldier and his dog. The bo ...Show more
Everything to Live For: The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt by Turia Pitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would change her life forever. Trapped by a fire in a gorge in the remote Kimberly region, Turia and five other competitors had nowhere ...Show more
Yates Top 50 Edible Plants for Pots and How Not to Kill Them! by Yates, Angie Thomas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
How to grow your own food in the smallest spaces - in pots on balconies, courtyards and windowsills Increasingly people are keen to grow some of their own food, giving them fresh, delicious and healthy ingredients right on their doorstep. Homegrown food also means reduced food miles and packaging, and r ...Show more
Nothing New: A History of Second-Hand by Robyn Annear
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: 6 Home
'Given the way we live now,' writes Robyn Annear, 'it would be easy to suppose that newness has always been venerated.' But as this wonderfully entertaining short history makes clear, modern consumerism is an aberration. Mostly, everyday objects-from cast-off cookware to clothing worn down to rags-have ...Show more
Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845 by Philip Jones
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
George French Angas (1822–1886) was one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding colonial artists. As a young man in the 1840s he journeyed to Australia and New Zealand, where he excelled at capturing the minute detail of plants and people, objects and landscapes. The bush was his studio — he captured th ...Show more
Tracks, Scats and Other Traces by Barbara Triggs
$59.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
This book contains hundreds of illustrations and is organized in an accessible format for easy identification of the visible traces left by Australian mammals in their passage. Triggs provides all the information needed to identify mammals anywhere in Australia, using only the tracks or other signs thes ...Show more