Echoes of the Dreamtime - Australian Aboriginal Myths by Ainslie Roberts (Artist); Melva Roberts
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Classic Aboriginal Myths illustrated by Ainslie Roberts, in full colour, and back in print after 30 years.
Aboriginal Legends - Animal Tales by Reed A W
$16.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
A.W. Reed. Why are there black swans only in Australia? How did snakes become poisonous? Learn about the powerful Rainbow Snake, red and black flying foxes, the Eagle-hawk and the Medicine Man in these incredible tales of the Dreamtime. A unique collection of stories for those interested in learning mor ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australia
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more
The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit by Larry Writer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of The Dunbar. At the top of The Gap, the haunted cliffs that front the coast of Sydney's Watsons Bay, sits a massive, battered anchor. It belonged to the Dunbar, an 1186-tonne three-masted clipped en route to Sydney from Plymou ...Show more
Through Old Eyes: Poems by Uncle Wes Marne by Wes Marne
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Through Old Eyes is a collection of poems by respected Bigambul Elder, Uncle Wes Marne. The book commemorates his 100th birthday on 25 April 2022. The poems in this collection explore the author's aboriginality, his country, culture, family, life and the affects of colonialism.
Remember When ... Snapshots of Australia from the '50s to the '90s by Bob Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Remember When ... Snapshots of Australia from the '50s to '90s is a photographic trip down memory lane, celebrating the people, places, events and experiences that shaped our nation in the second half of the 20th century. Take a trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne ...Remember loading up the back of the ...Show more
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
Growing up Wiradjuri by Anita Heiss (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australia
'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' — Dr. Anita Heiss, Ed.Growing up Wiradjuri is a collection of personal stories by Wiradjuri Elders. The writers are Uncles and Aunt ...Show more
Australia's Most Infamous Criminals: Gripping stories of bold heists, clever scams and mysterious murders by Graham Seal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Page turning stories of inventive scams, dramatic escapes and captures, and vile deeds of our most infamous criminals. 'Graham Seal finds and writes ripper, fair-dinkum, true blue Aussie yarns. His books are great reads.'-The Weekly Times Australia's master storyteller trawls our rich history of cold ca ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Big Things Grow: A Memoir of Teaching on Country in Wilcannia by Sarah Donnelley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
An inspiring memoir about passion, music and community within a remote outback town, from the winner of the 2020 ARIA Award for Music Teacher of the Year. This red dirt, it takes a hold of you. The blue skies, the sunsets, the starry nights, the river... Country holds onto you. Then you meet the people ...Show more
Sons In The Saddle by Mary Durack, Mary Durack
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australia
""Mary Durack's KINGS IN GRASS CASTLES is an Australian classic. Since it was published in 1959 it has gone on selling as new generations of readers discover the pastoralist saga of the Durack family and their cattle spreads across the continent. Now, nearly 25 years later we have the sequel we have bee ...Show more