Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian Biography
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. Combining pages of her diary, kept thro ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
44.99 AUD
55.00 (18% off)
Category: Australiana
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
Junior Atlas of Indigenous Australia by Macquarie Dictionary
37.99 AUD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
The Atlas visually represents patterns of human activities in space and time, from over 60,000 years ago to the present time. It covers an extensive range of topics, such as deep history, Indigenous mapping, material culture, cultural and religious life, art, sport, language, environment and Country, so ...Show more
Monument by Bonny Cassidy
31.45 AUD
32.95 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy’s fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past — part poetry, part prose, microhistory, memoir, travel ...Show more
Plants: Past, Present and Future (First Knowledges) by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
23.99 AUD
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
Singing the Coast by Tony Perkins
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is sung. These songs can be for all of us, where Aboriginal stories are overwritten with the grids of roads and towns. One coastal group's experience in mainta ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian Politics
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review.In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council wo ...Show more
The Extraordinary Memoirs of Sandy Mclennan, Gambler 1860-1943 - From Www.clanmaclennan-Worldwide.com/genealogy by Bruce A. McLENNAN (Editor)
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
"Sandy" McLennan 1860-1943, a gifted mathematician with a good memory, from 1890 based his family in London and from there he had a life around the world mixing with the rich and famous, including some of the greatest gamblers of his time. He took many voyages between Britain and New York. He was a clos ...Show more
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
32.99 AUD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more