Gone Bush:growing Up Fast In The Top End by Lunney Bob
$21.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
QUARTERLY ESSAY 12: by David Malouf; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2003, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
George Pell, now a great power in Rome, leaves in his wake shocking revelations about his defence of the church, its power and its assets, as he came to grips with the scandal of child sex abuse by priests. This new edition of The Prince, significantly expanded and updated, draws on fresh evidence of Pe ...Show more
Best Australian Political Writing by JONES Tony (ed)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In The Best Australian Political Writing 2008, Lateline's Tony Jones selects the most illuminating, provocative and incisive analysis of the past year in politics. Here some of our leading commentators and writers dissect Kevin Rudd's march to the Lodge and John Howard's historic defeat; travel to Afgha ...Show more
The Dig Tree : The Story of Burke and Wills by Sarah Murgatroyd
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O
The Dig Tree: the Story of Burke and Wills: The Extraordinary Story of the Burke and Wills Expedition by Sarah Murgatroyd
$32.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Burke and Wills are as legendary as Ned Kelly or Gallipoli in the Australian consciousness - in 1860, they set out from Melbourne to cross the continent for the first time. With extraordinary endurance and courage, they succeeded, only to perish at Cooper Creek. A gripping account of their travails, wit ...Show more
Racers of the Deep by Ralph Neale
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Yankee Clippers and Bluenose Clippers on the Australian Run 1852
It Happened in a Holden - A Celebration of the Holden by Paddy O'Reilly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Holden rolled into our lives in 1948 and has been firmly rooted in the Australian psyche ever since. The FJ, the EH, the Torana, the Kingswood, the panel van, the Monaro, the ute - each car is like a tuning fork for eras of Australian family, city and bush life. Almost every Australian has a Holden ...Show more
Yarra: A History of Melbourne's Murky River by Kristin Otto
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Kristin Otto has produced a moving and surprising exploration of the history and meaning of Melbourne's Yarra river and those who have lived and worked on it. Yarra celebrates a river that has inspired and sustained generations. It was John Wedge, Batman’s private surveyor, who named the Yarra Yarra. I ...Show more