Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story by Banjo Woorunmurra, Howard Pedersen
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
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Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
17 Years Wandering among the Aboriginals by James Morrrill; Eric Mjoberg (Photographer)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary account of James Morrill, shipwrecked on a reef, life boats lost, and floating 42 days on a raft made from the ship's mast. A harrowing tale of how 7 of the 21 crew and passengers endured the raft journey to land, and Morrill became the sole survivor, living with the Australian Aborigi ...Show more
Last Truck Out by Betty Lockyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
WWII, 1942 - Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 12 ...Show more
The Australian Aboriginal by Herbert Basedow
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Australian Aboriginal, originally written in 1925, describes the ceremonial and day-to-day lives of traditional Aboriginal people, as witnessed by Herbert Basedow, who from 1903 travelled the most remote areas of Australia. This book is a reissued edition with a new forward by David M. Welch and man ...Show more
Kimberley Encounters - In Our Parents' Footsteps by Ruth Russell (Editor); Rosalyn Roberts (Editor); Laurel Warhurst (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Retelling the stories of their time in Derby, the Leprosarium and Kunmunya Mission in the 1940s
Making Fire by Stephen Blake; David M. Welch
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
An essential survival guide. Making fire is a basic survival skill, a way of attracting attention if one is lost alone in remote bushland. Shown here without using modern tools, it is possible to use crude pieces of rock to fashion fire sticks and from these, to make fire.