By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian history
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
Muster Dogs From Pups to Pros by Lisa Millar
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian history
How ten dogs stole the hearts of millions and changed lives forever, for fans of the TV show now streaming on Netflix and ABC iView When Muster Dogs first hit screens in 2022, viewers were enchanted. Five lively kelpie pups adopted into farming homes across Australia and put on an intensive training pr ...Show more
Fight for Liberty and Freedom The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism by John Maynard
$29.95 AUD
Category: australian history
Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s which culminated in the famous Aboriginal tent embassy in 1972.Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the ...Show more
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian history
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian history | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Aboriginal Mythology - An A-Z Spanning the History of Aboriginal Mythology from the Earliest Legends to the Present Day by Mudrooroo Nyoongah
$29.95 AUD
Category: australian history | Series: Imprint Classics Ser.
A new 10th edition of Mudrooroo's best-selling volume, now in Imprint Classics.
Plants: Past, Present and Future (First Knowledges) by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian history | 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
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian history
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras
$49.99 AUD
Category: australian history
An enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years. In 1835, as he walked the sacred grounds of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations, John Batman wrote in his d ...Show more
Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales by A. W. Reed
$22.99 AUD
Category: australian history | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
How did snakes become poisonous? Why are there black swans only in Australia? Learn a bout the powerful Rainbow Snake, red and black flying foxes, the Eagle-hawk and the Medicine-man in these incredible tales of the Dramtime. So much of traditional Aboriginal storytelling teaches us about the animal wor ...Show more
John Williamson's Christmas in Australia by John Williamson
$14.99 AUD
Category: australian history
From Australian icon and singer-songwriter, John Williamson, comes this hugely popular family song, brought to life by talented artist, Mitch Vane. It's Christmas in Australia and Dad wants that perfect Christmas family photo, but someone is always missing
Wednesdays with Bob by Derek Rielly, Bob Hawke
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian history
On Wednesdays, Robert J. Hawke - Australia's 23rd and oldest living prime minister - has welcomed Derek Rielly into his home to share fine cigars and irreverent conversation. On a sun-soaked balcony, the maverick young writer and the charismatic old master talk life, death, love, sex, religion, politics ...Show more