National Parks (Our Australian Landscape) by Steve Parish
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Australia is a vast, mercurial land; a place where nature goes to extremes. The continent's sheer scale and the diversity of its habitats are enough to indicate that it boasts many national parks and reserves of local and international significance, but its absorbing and ancient history also adds to its ...Show more
Bush Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. These remarkable women patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive. They drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are n ...Show more
Murders, Mysteries and Hauntings by John Pinkney
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
* Two of John Pinkney's most popular books, Great Australian Mysteries and Haunted, in one volume. THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT has challenged us with its mysteries since the earliest days of settlement. In this unique book, bestselling Australian author John Pinkney chronicles the most tantalising of these ...Show more
Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up by Gabrielle Chan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Telling the story of Australia as it is today, Gabrielle Chan has gone hyper-local. In Rusted Off,she looks to her own rural community?s main street for answers to the big questions driving voters. Why are we so fed up with politics? Why are formerly rusted-on country voters deserting major parties in g ...Show more
Slow River by Strevens Steve
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Steve Strevens explores Australia's great waterways - the Murray - from its source in Victoria's high country to its mouth in the Great Southern Ocean. He tells the story of the people and communities who have lived along its banks and how the river has changed since European settlement.Steve Strevens h ...Show more
Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
On 7 February 2009 Sergeant Roger Wood found himself at the epicentre of the worst bushfire disaster in Australia's history. Black Saturday. Wood, who's a country cop with twenty years experience and also a raucous, meditating, horse-riding vegan was the only officer on duty in the small community of Ki ...Show more
A New History of the Irish in Australia by Diane Hall; Elizabeth Malcolm
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
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
Australia: A Celebration by Reader'S Digest
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Australia is an upbeat, quirky and sometimes humorous look at Australia and Australians - the land, its people and its wildlife - and what we value about our past that makes us proud now. Records, statistics, key dates, essential facts and achievements are presented in charts and lists, and supplemented ...Show more
Great Australian Scandals and Dust-ups by Eamon Evans
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
From a convict with a taste for human flesh to frozen berries with the taste of hepatitis, and from the Packer family's constant brawling to the time Malcolm Fraser turned up in a hotel lobby, dazed and wearing nothing but a tiny hotel towel. Featuring quirky illustrations and Eamon Evans' signature wi ...Show more
Great Australian World War II Stories by John Gatfield (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
From the annals of the RSL come these riveting true stories, written by a host of ordinary Australians - Diggers, POWs, nurses, entertainers, sailors, airmen and many more - that capture the impact of war on those who took part. With eyewitness accounts ranging from the Fall of Singapore to the Kokoda T ...Show more
The Yowie - In Search of Australia's Bigfoot by Tony Healy; Paul Cropper
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Act Ser.
True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia by Paul van Reyk
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Foods and Nations Ser.
Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities. It describes how food produ ...Show more