Sh*t Towns of Australia by Rick Furphy; Geoff Rissole
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The hilarious guide to the shittest towns in Australia.
Three Steel Teeth - Wide Comb Shears and Woolshed Wars by Mark Filmer
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's wool growing industry descended into chaos during the early 1980s when a small group of 'rebel' shearers started advocating for a seemingly minor change. The rebels, led by gun shearer Robert White, wanted 13-tooth shearing combs legalised. Wide combs, as they were known, had been banned fro ...Show more
The Last Bushrangers by Mike Munro
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges a police constable and station manager are slain then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Ken ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda: Australia's Accidental Anthem by W Benjamin Lindner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia Remember This Too! by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia Remember This Too! is a photographic celebration of nostalgia, particularly for Baby Boomers, 114,000 of whom follow the 'Australia Remember When' Facebook page, sharing their photos and memories.Remember Mike Willesee's A Current Affair from the '70s? Fairy bread with hundreds and thousands a ...Show more
Back Roads by Heather Ewart; Karen Michelmore (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities - and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defi ...Show more
Snowy: The Making of Modern Australia by COLLIS BRAD
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Snowy Mountains Scheme changed Australia forever. A country founded on stolid British stock almost overnight became one of the world's great pancultures. Tens of thousands of workers from more than 30 lands poured into what was the undisturbed pastoral realm of the high country stockman, the souther ...Show more
A Million Acre Master Piece: Images of Australia's Largest Cattle Stations by Fiona Lake
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The photographs in this book date back to 1984. They have been taken on cattle stations between Queensland's Cape York Peninsula and Channel Country, across the top of the Northern territory and in Western Australia's Kimberley region.
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's lost generation by Ross McMullin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing number of losses -- on the sheer qua ...Show more
The Colony: a History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blu ...Show more
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more