Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in t ...Show more
The Last Paradise by Tom Cole
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Tom Cole hunted crocodiles and buffalo, was a horse-breaker, brumby runner and drover, owned and managed cattle stations and a coffee plantation. The Last Paradise is the sequel to Tom Cole's bestselling autobiography Hell West and Crooked and recounts his story of thirty years in New Guinea amongst "cr ...Show more
Beyond the Big Run: The Mandandanji Land War Southern Queensland 1842-52 by Darrell Lewis
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
'I'll be lucky to last a bloody year,' was the prediction of nineteen year old Charlie Schultz. That was 1928, when he first arrived to take up the management of Humbert River Station. A tiny run-down property in a tangle of wild ranges, neighbour to the vast and legendary Victoria River Downs, Humbert ...Show more
The Big Run : The Story of Victoria Downs Station by Jock Mackin
$28.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The big run captures the spirit of what was once the world's largest cattle run. Incorporating recent history under management of Janet Holmes' A Courts pastoral group.
Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline's childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin. With the outbreak of World War Two, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education. Returning to her be ...Show more
Lonely for My Land : Tales of Karratha Station and the Nor'West by Tish Lees
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
As one of the earliest properties pioneered north of the twenty-sixth parallel in the Roebourne District of the Pilbara, Karratha Station harbours a fascinating history. The 120,000 hectares, with its sixty-five kilometres of coastal boundary, was utopia to the Leslie family - who lived there from 1929- ...Show more
A War at Home A Comprehensive Guide to the first Japanese attacks on Darwin
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Great Australian Stories
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...' Boasting the biggest beat ...Show more
The Last Great Australian Adventurer: Ben Carlin's Epic Journey Around the World by Amphibious Jeep. by Gordon Bass
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
In 1948, the Australian Ben Carlin set out from New York City with an audacious, lunatic plan to circumnavigate the world by amphibious jeep. Fuelled by cigarettes and adrenaline, he forged eastwards through fierce Atlantic hurricanes; across scorching, uncharted North African desert; into dense South-E ...Show more
Not All Black and White: Scott Hodges - the Football Star Who Descended into Darkness by David Penberthy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
On paper Scotty Hodges had it all. In a football career almost without peer, Scott was drafted as a teenager to represent the team he loved, Port Adelaide, and would go on to win a staggering eight premierships. He would break the State's all-time goal-kicking record, win its highest honour, the Magar ...Show more
Other Country by Stephen Scourfield
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Raw, forceful, and intensely masculine, this is a powerful novel of land, blood, and history. Set in the mythic remote country of the Top End in Australia's Northern Territory, Other Country tells the story of two young brothers, Ace and Billy, and their struggle to overcome the bitter legacy of their b ...Show more