A New History of the Irish in Australia by Diane Hall; Elizabeth Malcolm
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A New History of the Irish in Australia In 1986, Patrick O'Farrell published a landmark book, The Irish in Australia. This was an important volume given that after the English, the Irish were the largest population in Australia between 1788 and 1945, comprising nearly 25 per cent of all non-Indigenous A ...Show more
Songlines and Fault Lines by Morrison, Glenn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing- wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place of black and white, ancient and modern. Songlines and Fault Lines ...Show more
Asbestos in Australia: From Boom to Dust by Lenore Layman (Editor); Gail Phillips (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian History Ser.
Asbestos in Australia presents for the first time a multi-dimensional view of Australia's asbestos story featuring contributions from experts in the disciplines of history, journalism, medicine, law and public health. It also includes first-hand accounts of those whose lives have been touched by the min ...Show more
Australia's Beating Heart: An illustrated anthology of classic bush poetry by Australian Geographic
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia’s Beating Heart is celebration of our wide brown land, and the people and stories that landscape shapes. This luxe anthology features 70 iconic bush poems hand-selected by Australian champion bush poets Melanie Hall and Susan Carcary, illustrated beautifully by landscape photographs from the A ...Show more
Australia's Great Depression: How a nation shattered by the Great War survived the worst economic crisis it has ever faced by Joan Beaumont
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression. Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great ...Show more
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: First Knowledges
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. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist.William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cele ...Show more
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--throu ...Show more
The Explorers: Text Classics by Tim Flannery
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Text Classics
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent. This compelling anthology documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us into a world of dang ...Show more
Whistles Through the Tall Timber by NICK ANCHEN
$99.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The majestic mountain ranges east of Melbourne contained some of the finest stands of hardwood trees in Australia. To access the timber, a fascinating network of railways and tramways were built. This publication tells the story of the Warburton, Powelltown and Noojee railways, along with the prominent ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'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