The Bush - Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke ...Show more
Error Australis by Ben Pobjie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
We're obsessed with reality television these days yet we so often neglect the greatest reality of all: the reality of our nation, and how it came to be. In Error Australis, TV columnist, comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie recaps the history of Australia from its humble beginnings as a small patch of r ...Show more
Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art by Kerry Gardner
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Before the winds of World War I blew Europe apart, a rowdy and radical group of Australian artists would gather in the salons of Paris and London to embrace new ways of painting and seeing the world. By 1914 twelve of them had shown their works at the Venice International Exhibition, now known as the Ve ...Show more
The Melbourne Tram Book by Dale Budd & Randall Wilson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This new edition of The Melbourne Tram Book is a gloriously colourful and compact tribute to Melbournes famous and iconic trams, one of the citys most enduring symbols. More than 200 photographs and illustrations show the trams in the streetscapes of today and yesterday.
Future In Flames by Clode, Danielle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
No other continent on earth is a prone to bushfires, over such a large area, as Australia. What is it about Australia that makes it so prone to fires? Have humans made thing worse, or better? This book intends to answer some of these questions and understand why, after so many years, people are still dy ...Show more
Outback Women's Stories: Amazing Australian Amazons by Paul Bugeja
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The word "amazon" generally conjures up images of wild and powerful warrior women, fighting off foes in some primitive matriarchal society where they rule over men who have been subverted to more menial roles. Outback Women's Stories is a compilation of significant Australian women of simple but importa ...Show more
Voyages to the South Seas by CLODE DANIELLE
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. Lap rouse and Labillardi re, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge. This is the ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more