Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as ‘guide’s’, ‘native aides’, or ‘intermediaries’ have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: ...Show more
My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
Bills of Rights in Australia by BYRNES Andrew
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Arguments about the need for a bill of rights in Australia have simmered. While attempts to introduce a national bill of rights have failed, the states and territories have taken on a pioneering role with statutory bills. This title examines the arguments for and against greater protection of human righ ...Show more
Not Bad Thanks by Graeme Willingham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Absurd, theatrical and comical, the curiously-named team Not Bad Thanks, born of London seed in 1980, takes 70 seasons to crawl from lowest F Grade in the open-age Victorian Business Houses Basketball Association in Melbourne to play at the A level. The Club grapples with tragedy, authority, an outing, ...Show more
The Story of Australia: The Epic Journey from Gondwanaland to the Present Day by Vanessa Collingridge
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This stunningly produced book draws together a complete history of Australia from the geological super-continent of Gondwanaland to its modern incarnation as one of the most vibrant countries in the world. With its combination of pull-out facsimiles of original documents, sumptuous illustrations, detail ...Show more
Nothing but Gold : the Diggers of 1852 by Robyn Annear
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the diggings: the mud of winter and dust of summer, the pluckiness of the women and children, the gro ...Show more
Mapping Our World by Peter Barber
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in ...Show more
Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac 'legend'. But it was also a war fought by the families at home. Their resilience in the face of hardship, their stoic acceptanc ...Show more
Nature Of Sustainable Development by Beder, Sharon
$41.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
For Gallantry: Australians Awarded the George Cross and the Cross of Valour by Craig Blanch
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
From the frozen wastes of Antarctica to the burning ruins of the Bali bombings, For Gallantry tells the stories of the 28 Australians awarded the nation's highest non-combat awards for bravery: the Imperial George Cross and its Australian Honours and Awards replacement, the Cross of Valour. Created to m ...Show more