Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack

$22.99 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 d sense of family history, his grand-daughter, Mary Durack reconstructed the Durack saga - a story of intrepid men and ground-breaking adventure. This sweeping tale of Australia and Australians remains a classic nearly fifty years on." ...Show more

Freshwater Fishes of the Kimberley A Field Guide

$29.99 AUD

Category: Nature and Science

The Kimberley region in north-western Australia is world renowned for its rugged natural beauty, remoteness, waterfalls, and Aboriginal culture. It is home to a rich array of animals and plants, including a large number found nowhere else on earth. The fish fauna is no exception, among whichare species that are culturally important such as the iconic Barramundi, a prized recreational and commercial species.Exciting  discoveries of new fish species continue in the region and this guide contains information on where the species occur, their evolutionary retationships, biology, conservation status, cultural values, and local language names.This compact volume contains full colour illustrations and information on the inland fish fauna from the Fitzroy River in the south-west to the Ord, Victoria and Fitzmaurice rivers to the east. ...Show more

There Were Three Ships

$34.99 AUD

Category: History

From Clunes to the Kimberley In November 1864, three heavily laden ships sailed from Melbourne and its old sea port of Williamstown,bound for the land of promise They carried 120 men, women and children from gold mining and farming communities and thousands of head of livestock. Their destination, an isolated bay in the unexplored territory of far north western Australia But Utopia became a hell ...Show more

King Of The Australian Coast by Marsden Hordern

$42.99 AUD

Category: History

"Phillip Parker King has been described as the greatest of Australia s early marine surveyors. But while the achievements of Cook and Flinders are widely known, this is the first telling of King s story. Unlike Cook and Flinders, King was Australian-born--the son of Philip Gidley King, governor of New S outh Wales. In a series of gruelling voyages between 1817 and 1822, King charted most of the north-west coast of Australia from the eastern tip of Arnhem Land all the way round to Cape Leeuwin and King George Sound. He surveyed Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemen s Land and the treacherous waters inside the Great Barrier Reef, filling gaps in the work of his famous predecessors. Marsden Hordern, a splendid storyteller, creates for the reader a sense of following, engrossed, in King s wake. The hazards of reefs, shoals and tides are ever-present, as is delight in unfamiliar wildlife and curiosity about the Aboriginal people. The question left hanging is whether King might be better known today had he been a less capable, good and faithful servant of the Crown, and more inclined to the excess and ineptitude of certain other early explorers. Winner of the New ...Show more

The Kimberley - Australia's Wilderness by david bettini (Photographer)

$69.99 AUD

Category: General

From the tiger-striped domes of Purnululu to the opal-blue waters of Buccaneer Archipelago, the Kimberley is the most remarkable wilderness in Australia Acclaimed nature photographer David Bettini has captured the essence of the Kimberley's sweeping ranges, plunging gorges and tropical wetlands. He tak es you on a voyage down its convoluted coastline, past sandstone headlands, through mangrove-lined inlets and out to pristine reefs This book contains breathtaking images that celebrate the stark beauty of the dry season and the drama of the wet, when thunderstorms and torrential rain descend on its ancient landscape ...Show more

Common Plants of the Kimberley

$7.25 AUD

Category: Plants and Animals

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 ties ignited in the sisters a lifelong love of the Kimberley, along with a growing unease about the situation of the Aboriginal people employed there. Through war, love affairs, children and eventual old age, the Duracks continued to write and paint - their closely intertwined creative lives always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private family letters, unpublished memoirs, diaries and family papers, Brenda Niall gets to the heart of a uniquely Australian story that spans the twentieth century. ...Show more

Birds of the Kimberley by Carolyn Thomson

$7.25 AUD

Category: Plants and Animals | Series: Bushbooks

100 Things To See In The Kimberley by CONNELL SCOTTY

$29.99 AUD

Category: General

Scott Connell, local tour guide and administrator of the hugely popular @thekimberleyAustralia Instagram profile, shares his in-depth knowledge of the wild Kimberley region. In 100 Things to See in the Kimberley Scott guides readers through his 100 favourite places, telling them how to get there, why th ey should go and what secrets they'll uncover once they do. The book also includes full colour maps, stunning imagery and knowledge only a life-long local knows. ...Show more

Kimberley Coast

$25.00 AUD

Category: General

Our Friends the Termites

$24.99 AUD

Category: General

Sid and Skipper Go Mustering

$20.99 AUD

Category: Children