Unknown: A Refugee's Story by Akuch KUOL ANYIETH
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting memoir of a young woman starting a new life in Australia under the shadow of violence A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about a young girl's escape, with her family, from war-torn South Sudan to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and then to A ...Show more
A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson, Shireen Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Soon we will all decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the Constitution. In this essential book, several leading writers and thinkers provide a road map to recognition. Starting with the Uluru Statement from the Heart, these eloquent essays show what constitutional recognition m ...Show more
Aussie Talk: Australian Slang-uage: Sayings, Slang and Idiom, the Aussie way by Paul Bugeja
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Aussies use them every day, some of them more than others. They make their conversations colourful and interesting, loud and bright, rich and rare...and sometimes seemingly foreign or incomprehensible to visitors to their shores. They derive from a variety of cultural, historical and ethnic sources, ...Show more
The Diggers of Colditz: The Classic Australian POW Story about Escape from the Impossible by Jack Champ; Colin Burgess
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany's infamous 'escape-proof' wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack Champ and other prisoners tirelessly carried out their campaign to escape from t ...Show more
Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$16.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia; An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
I-Tjuma - Ngaanyatjarra Stories from the Western Desert of Central Australia by Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis (Editor); Inge Kral (Editor); Jennifer Green (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Between 2012 and 2019 Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral and Jennifer Green worked together to make an enduring record of endangered verbal arts in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands communities of Western Australia. They filmed traditional Ngaanyatjarra tjinytjatjunku or mirlpa (telling stories while drawing in ...Show more
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara by Ian White (Compiled by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu.Born at the end of the 19th Century when the Western world had scarcely touched Arnhem Land, Paddy Compass Namadbara acted as a healer for his countrymen and ...Show more
Black, White and Exempt - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lives under Exemption by Lucinda Aberdeen; Jennifer Jones
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians at that time: she could travel freely, open a bank account, and live and work where she wanted. In the eye ...Show more
The First Peoples of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Central Victoria: The Eastern Kulin by Gary Presland
$24.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
This is the only up-to-date book available about the Eastern Kulin peoples. The Kulin nation lived around Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River valley, and their territory stretched as far north as the Murray River at Echuca. Gary Presland looks at the Eastern Kulin peoples from before European invasion ...Show more
Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin: A Contested History by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s food bowl, is in crisis. For more than a century, the Basin has faced a series of environmental catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recognised wet ...Show more
Secret Pigeon Service - Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. 'This is an amazing story' Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux t ...Show more
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphori ...Show more