Bundjalung Weavers - Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali, We Weave Together by Rhoda Roberts AO (Compiled by); Kylie Caldwell (Compiled by)
$69.95 AUD
Category: australian history
'Bundjalung Weavers: Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali...we weave together' presents a rich visual display of Bundjalung weavers practices set in their traditional country of Northern Rivers, NSW. It is a powerful testimony to the strength, endurance and talent of the weavers whose stories are told in the publicati ...Show more
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: australian history
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
Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius by Thomas H Ford, Justin Clemens
$35.00 AUD
Category: australian history
On 24 February 1817, Barron Field sailed into Sydney Harbour on the convict transport Lord Melville to a ceremonial thirteen-gun salute. He was there as the new Judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature in New South Wales - the highest legal authority in the turbulent colony. Energetic and gregario ...Show more
Our Voices From The Heart by Patricia Anderson AO, Professor Megan Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian history
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itse ...Show more
100 Weirdest Tales from Across Australia by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian history
Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springi ...Show more
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm by Alan Atkinson
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian history
A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasi ...Show more
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life by Paul Callaghan
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian history
Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path has always been there, but in the modern-day world, it can be hard to find. There are so many demands on us family, health, bills, a mortgage, a career that it can be hard to remember what's most important- you. It's time to reconnect with your story. ...Show more
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian history
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ and their bushranging brethren are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all ...Show more
Australians: A short history by Thomas Keneally
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian history
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian history
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Black Snake: The Real Story of Ned Kelly by Leo Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: australian history
Leo Kennedy is the great grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy and was raised in the shadow of his great grandfather's murder. Leo is a member of the Blue Ribbon Foundation, which supports police families and honours the memory of police killed in the line of duty. He lives with his family in Melbourne, ...Show more
The Last of the Nomads by W. J. Peasley
$22.99 AUD
Category: australian history
Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their deaths in the late 1970s marked the end of a tribal lifestyle that stretched back more than 30,000 years. The Last of the Nomads tells of an extraordinary journey i ...Show more