True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
Sons In The Saddle by Mary Durack, Mary Durack
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
""Mary Durack's KINGS IN GRASS CASTLES is an Australian classic. Since it was published in 1959 it has gone on selling as new generations of readers discover the pastoralist saga of the Durack family and their cattle spreads across the continent. Now, nearly 25 years later we have the sequel we have bee ...Show more
Last Horse Standing by Michael Keenan
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
An amazing true story of courage and survival in the outback by the bestselling author of The Horses Too Are Gone.In 1971 bushman Jack Camp went mustering wild cattle - 'cleanskins' - in a vast and isolated stretch of the Kimberley coast. The potential profit would be huge - but so were the risks. It wa ...Show more
Debesa: The Story of Frank and Katie Rodriguez by Cindy Solonec
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'I listened to my family’s narratives and my ancestors began to emerge in an almost life-like way.' — Cindy Solonec This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley; their livelihood through difficult times, love of family, plac ...Show more
Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
" ... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a greart family and of a series of great actions. The Bulletin When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a profoun ...Show more
Diamonds and Dust by Sheryl McCorry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sheryl McCorry grew up in Arnhem Land carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18, Broome beckoned, and it was there that - only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank - she locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage ende ...Show more
In The Middle Of Nowhere by Terry Underwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"In the Middle of Nowhereis a story of beating the odds, of the power of love and the strength of family ties to overcome every obstacle. Terry met John at St Vincents Hospital, where she was training to be a nurse and he was recuperating from a horse-riding accident. They wrote love letters to each oth ...Show more
Finding Marjorie King: A daughter's journey to discover her mother's identity by Jennifer Durrant, Cheryl Rogers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Who was Marjorie King? Her daughter, Jennifer, needed to know. Why did her beautiful, funny, shy mother never speak about her past? Where was her Mum’s family? They were Jennifer’s family, too. A framed portrait revealed a stunning young Asian woman. But there were no images of Marjorie as a child. An ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$43.99 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
Keep Him My Country by Mary Durack
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Keep Him My Country is a powerful novel of a young man's experience of the harsh beauty of the outback, growing up and the difficult learning experience that accompanies it.Keep Him My Country is a powerful novel of a young man's experience of the harsh beauty of the outback, growing up and the difficul ...Show more