The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim, Yun Shu
$52.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, ...Show more
Australian Light Horse by Roland Perry
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miltary
The Australian Light Horse was a unique force, first raised during the Boer War, and then reformed for World War I. Most of the men were from the outback, had a special bond with their horses (which were all brought from Australia) - and they knew how to survive and fight in the desert. The greatest par ...Show more
Ned Kelly by Peter Fitzsimons
$32.99 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. History comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. Histor ...Show more
Desert Australia by Nick Rains
$35.00 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: General
Deserts are far from lifeless places. They're full of interesting wildlife, changing conditions and unexpected surprises - all of which are spectacularly displayed in this collection of photographs by renowned photographer Nick Rains. Lens by lens, click by click, the photographs in Desert Australia enc ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People - Volume 2 by Geoffrey Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: General
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
I Once Met a Man: True Stories from One of Australia's Greatest Fol Heroes by R.M. Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Understand, then, that these chapters are concerned with the spirit of men and women from whom something of worth has shone out to make them worthy of record. You will note that the book is not of deeds, achievement, great honour; just that indefinable something that has no other name in our language bu ...Show more
Islands of Angry Ghosts: The Story of Batavia, Australia's Bloodiest Mutiny by Hugh Edwards
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
New edition. In 1629 the Dutch East India merchantman, the Batavia was wrecked off the coast of West Australia while on a voyage to Indonesia. What followed this disaster is a harrowing tale of desertion, betrayal and murder. This updated edition includes new photographs. A replica of the Batavia is in ...Show more
Natural Curiosity: The Art of the First Fleet by Louise Anemaat
$39.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Parrots and lorikeets swoop down, vivid, bright and colourful. Black swans glide through the air. Owls stare out from pages, wide-eyed.A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in eighteenth-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds and ...Show more
Kangaroo Dundee by Chris Barns
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Brolga (aka Chris Barns) is the 6ft 7in strong but sensitive Aussie star of the extraordinary BBC series Kangaroo Dundee. Brolga lives in a simple tin shed in the outback where he raises orphaned baby kangaroos. It is a sad fact of life that kangaroo mothers are at the mercy of speeding cars in this par ...Show more
Bloodlines by Nicole Sinclair
$27.00 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Thirty-one year old Beth, who has grown up in the Western Australian wheatbelt, is running from her past when she heads to an island in Papua New Guinea. Interwoven with her story about the joys and brutalities of island life is the story of her parents' passionate, tender love for each other and the tr ...Show more