Aboriginal Australians by Muecke S & S
$18.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Horizons S.
In the 18th century, as European colonization proceeded apace, one continent remained to be discovered, the mythical Terra Australis incognita. This, the largest island-continent, had been inhabited for over 60,000 years by the Aborigines, who were described by the first explorers as the 'miserablest pe ...Show more
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, During the Years, 1837-39 by George Grey
$72.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania Ser.
Educated at Sandhurst, Sir George Grey (1812-98) became Governor of South Australia when he was not yet thirty. Later he served as Governor of New Zealand and High Commissioner for South Africa, and in the 1870s he enjoyed a period as Premier of New Zealand. Although he liked to portray himself as 'good ...Show more
Remembered By Heart: An Anthology Of Indigenous Writing by Sally Morgan
$17.99 AUD
Category: History
A collection of powerful, true stories of Aboriginal life This anthology brings together 15 memoirs of growing up Aboriginal in Australia and includes works from Kim Scott, Australia's first indigenous Miles Franklin winner; bestselling author Sally Morgan; and the critically acclaimed artist, author, ...Show more
The Dystopia in the Desert : The Silent Culture of Australia's Remotest Aboriginal Communities by Tadhgh Purtill
$44.00 AUD
Category: History
The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to the country¿s most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the communities and their residents are detached from mainstream Australia by factors of distance and culture. But the Ngaanyatjarra region remains obscure for othe ...Show more
Benang: From the Heart - Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2000 by Kim Scott
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures
Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first white man born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure m ...Show more
Man Called Yarra by Stan Yarramunua
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
oI'm a Wathaurong man. I'm an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country.oStan oYarrao Yarramunua- artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman.From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill - and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father - Yarra had a tumultuous and of ...Show more
Tjarany Roughtail (Kukatja & English) by Gracie Greene; Joe Tramacchi; Lucille Gill (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: From 3 To 7
Tjarany Roughtail contains eight dreamtime stories from the Kukatja people of Western Australia s remote Kimberley Region. Each story is complemented by beautiful artworks painted by Aboriginal artist Lucille Gill that visually explain each story using traditional dot paintings. Told in English and Kuka ...Show more
A Record in Stone : The Study of Australia's Flaked Stone Artefacts by Simon Holdaway and Nicola Stern
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Provides a comprehensive investigation into the different ways in which archaeologists use flaked stone artefacts as a basis for reconstructing the distant human past. This book describes the range of flaked stone artefact forms recovered from Australian archaeological sites.
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...Show more
No Sugar by Jack Davis
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Currency Plays
The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).
Riding the Black Cockatoo by John Danalis; Boori Monty Pryor (Foreword by)
$21.00 AUD
Category: History
All through his growing-up years, John Danalis's family had an Aboriginal skull on the mantelpiece; yet only as an adult after enrolling in an Indigenous Writing course did he ask his family where it came from and whether it should be restored to its rightful owners. This is the compelling story of how ...Show more