The Best Australian Bush Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond ...an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke
$14.99 AUD
$29.99 (50% off)
Category: Australia
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous res ...Show more
A Pleasure to Be Here: The Best of Clarke and Dawe 1989-2017 by John Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australia
A hilarious collection of interviews discussing the highs and lows in the public and political life of Australia over the past three decades. Drawn from John Clarke's and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts, these timelessly funny scripts will delight readers as they revisit the scandals and stuff-ups of our ...Show more
Tiberius with a Telephone: Life and Stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Winner of the National Biography Award 2020. William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of the twentieth century. This biography tells the story of his life, his career, and his doomed attempts to recast views of his much-maligne ...Show more
Green Nomads Wild Places by Bob Brown; Paul Thomas
$39.99 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Australia
Visit some of the most remote and beautiful places of south and west Australia in Green Nomads Wild Places, Bob Brown and partner Paul Thomas's three-month adventure across Australia. This is a photographic and written record of a journey that took them first by yacht and then by road along the coas ...Show more
Black Saturday - That's Not the End of the Story by Peg Fraser
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: History of Australia Ser.
The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation's history. In the wake of this tragedy much media and public commentar ...Show more
Convicts in the Colonies by Lucy Williams
$52.99 AUD
Category: Australia
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through ...Show more
Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong's First Step by Andrew Tink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Nei ...Show more
Ned Kelly's Last Days: Setting the record straight on the death of an outlaw by Alex C Castles
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Australia's leading legal historian examines the chain of events that occurred between Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan and the day he faced the public executioner revealing the truth behind the drama, intrigue, and pathos of the death of Australia's most notorious outlaw. Ned Kelly - Australia's bel ...Show more
Essential Lingo Dictionary: Of Australian Words and Phrases by John & Monica Miller
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The Essential Lingo Dictionary is a warts-and-all look at the notoriously hilarious (and occasionally a little bit naughty) canon of Australian slang words and phrases, casting light on the quirky, intriguing and often bizarre Australian Aussie language. A must-have for every bookshelf!If you have wonde ...Show more
Outback Railwaymen: Life on the Commonwealth Railways by Nick Anchen
$12.99 AUD
$14.99 (13% off)
Category: Australia
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA RAILWAY - NORTH AUSTRALIA RAILWAY - TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY "Outback Railwaymen - Life on the Commonwealth Railways" explores the life and times of three extraordinary railways, through the recollections and humorous stories of a selection of retired railwaymen and women. These were t ...Show more
Lake Eyre: A Journey to the Heart of the Continent by Paul Lockyer; John Bean (Photographer); Gary Ticehurst (Photographer)
$19.99 AUD
$59.99 (66% off)
Category: Australia
Lake Eyre occupies a vast mythological and real landscape - its basin makes up one sixth of the Australian continent and it is the 'inland sea' so many early exploreres died trying to disover. But for most of the time the lake is empty, a vast salty desert plain. Only once in a generation when the great ...Show more