Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Crossing Cultures - An Anglo Australian Working in Aboriginal Communities by Barbara Jackson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In the early 1980s, Barbara Jackson visited her father in Tennant Creek and was catapulted into the harsh reality of life in an Aboriginal community. Her version of Australian history hadn't prepared her for the racism, the sub-standard living conditions, or the suffering. She decided to do something ab ...Show more
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
Power, Culture, Economy Indigenous Australians and Mining by Altman Jon Martin David
$48.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Australian Bushrangers by Coupe Robert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Surveys the history of bushranging in Australia. From the initial, brutal days of European settlement and our first convict - bushranger Black Caeser in 1789 to the capture and death of legendary folk hero Ned Kelly in 1880.
Dignity in a Teacup by Christine Cummins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Chronicles the five years Christine Cummins spent working as a torture and trauma counsellor with asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island. It provides a firsthand account of Australian immigration detention, during a period of dramatic change and controversy. With exclusive access to the stories sha ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more
An Amazing Australian Road Trip (HB) by Jackie Hosking
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A rambunctious romp of a family road trip around Australia looking for the right place to celebrate Aunty's birthday with a cake.An everyday Aussie family leaves their Melbourne home, makes for the Great Ocean Road and finds themselves on the journey of a lifetime to every state and territory of Austral ...Show more
Australia - A Beautiful Continent: A beautiful continent by New Holland Publishers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This book features Australia at it’s best; a land of great diversity and contrast. This book covers our fascinating outback to our beautiful coastlines, glorious beaches and rugged landscapes along with our majestic islands that makes Australia a country so unique. Covering all states, this chunky littl ...Show more
BOOK OF THE BANNED: Devilish Movies, Dastardly Censors and the Scenes That Made Australia Sweat by Simon Miraudo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
BLASPHEMY AND HORROR! SAUCY SWEDES! LUKE SKYWALKER'S CHARRED AUNT & UNCLE! Australia has censored it all. Did you know Aussie audiences were originally banned from watching bona fide classics The Night of the Hunter, Breathless and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (to name just a few out of literal hund ...Show more