Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? by MCGEE-SIPPEL LORRAINE
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span decades and lead her to search for her birth family. In the historic climate of the Rudd government's Apology, McGee-Sippel aligns herself with t ...Show more
Many Maps: Charting Two Cultures: First Nations Australians and European Settlers in Western Australia by Bill Bunbury; Jenny Bunbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart ...Show more
Living in Hope: The Complete Memoirs of Frank Byrne by Frank Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Frank Byrne is a hero who worked for over ten years to have this book written, to set the record straight about the denial of truth in history telling in this country.’ — Alexis Wright‘This is a very strong story of survival. A tragic reminder of the harshness and unfairness of the mission era but also ...Show more
Voices of the First Day: Awakening The Aboriginal Dreamtime by Robert Lawlor
$70.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Inner Traditions S.
Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to transforming our own world view. While not romanticizing the past ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing & Psychiatry by Wiremu NiaNia; Allister Bush; David Epston
$65.00 AUD
$70.99 (8% off)
Category: History | Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives Ser.
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 by Richard Broome
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A powerful history of black and white encounters in Australia since colonization. This is a fully updated edition (fourth edition).