Wool Away, Boy!: A Ripping Memoir of Life in the Shearing Sheds by Alan Blunt
$32.99 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: General
A firsthand account of the shearing sheds of the 1950s and 60s. The son of a shearer, Alan Blunt spent his teenage years in the woolsheds of the 1950s and 60s. As his father laboured, Alan would imagine himself opening the batting for Australia or boxing for the world middleweight championship, only to ...Show more
Camping around Australia 5th edition: Australia's Most Comprehensive Camping Guide by Hardie Grant Explore
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
Now in its fifth edition, Camping around Australia has become the go-to guidebook for all recreational campers. This comprehensive guide lists more than 3000 campsites from across the continent with symbols indicating available facilities and activities at each site. Whether you're looking for dog-fri ...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
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
Bush Doctors by Annabelle Brayley
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
Imagine yourself critically injured or seriously ill in the middle of nowhere. You'd be hoping like hell there was a doctor nearby to take charge; someone resourceful, who'd think quickly and stay calm under pressure; someone who could, if necessary, take charge from a distance. You'd want to be in the ...Show more
Wings of the Kite-Hawk by Nicolas Rothwell
$34.95 AUD
Category: General
If the traveller's aim is to find wonders and treasures not before our eyes that others have overlooked, then this is truly a hidden classic.- PICO IYERWings of the Kite-Hawkis unlike any other book written about inland Australia. Bittersweet and entrancing, it is a set of linked journeys into the Austr ...Show more
The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. It examines the original "future eaters" who were the first people to leave the Afro-Asian homeland and travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and became the Aboriginal, Maori and other Polynesian ...Show more
Of Marsupials and Men by Alistair Paton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Animals
A brilliantly entertaining history of Australia's weird and wonderful natural scientists 'A fascinating history of Australia's wildlife and the wilder men and women who shot, studied and saved it ... Compelling and entertaining.' -David Hunt Of Marsupials and Men recounts the fascinating and often hilar ...Show more
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul by Elizabeth Farrelly
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
I've lived in Sydney some thirty years. But I feel that the city I love is under genuine threat. Motorways, Mirrorglass, McMansions: this knock-down-rebuild mentality is everywhere. I get hundreds of emails, all the time, from people who are infuriated, or despairing, over what is happening to Sydney. A ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Trucking Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled the width and breadth of Australia to bring together yet another memorable collection of stories. This time he has met with many of our outback truckies that criss-cross our nation - across deser ...Show more