Plants: Past, Present and Future (First Knowledges) by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture | 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
Miimi Marraal, Mother Earth (HB) by Melissa Greenwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
A beautiful and lyrical picture book for new babies across Australia Miimi Marraal, she created us, you and me ... From Gumbaynggirr artist Melissa Greenwood, of mother-daughter art and design label Miimi and Jiinda, comes a deeply felt and heart-stirring picture book about the connection between mother ...Show more
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
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
Of Marsupials and Men by Alistair Paton
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
A brilliantly entertaining history of Australia's weird and wonderful natural scientists 'A fascinating history of Australia's wildlife and the wilder men and women who shot, studied and saved it ... Compelling and entertaining.' -David Hunt Of Marsupials and Men recounts the fascinating and often hilar ...Show more
Growing up Wiradjuri by Heiss, Anita
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' — Dr. Anita Heiss, Ed.Growing up Wiradjuri is a collection of personal stories by Wiradjuri Elders. The writers are Uncles and Aunt ...Show more
The Ghosts Have Never Left - Victorian Gold Rush Town and the Stories They Could Tell by John & Marie WATT
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
In words and images this book seeks to capture both the glory days and haunting reminders of 21 Victorian Gold Rush towns, that today are either small, sleepy or non-existent. The authors have also identified slices of important, and often little known, history associated with each of the 21 towns. Topi ...Show more
Astronomy: Sky Country (First Knowledges) by Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history.Many First Peoples regard the land a ...Show more
Growing Up in Country Australia by Rick Morton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Growing Up
Black Inc.'s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country Growing Up in Country Australia is a fresh, modern look at country Australia. There are stories of joy, adventure, nostalgia, connection to nature and freedom, but also more grim tales - of drought, fires, mouse plagues and isolation. From ...Show more
Great Furphies of Australian History: What you really need to know - the truth behind the myths by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Au ...Show more
High Country Huts & Homesteads: A Celebration of Australia's Historic Mountain Shelters by Craig Lewis, Cathy Savage
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
Lavishly illustrated with beautiful full-colour photographs, High Country Huts is a nostalgic collection of abandoned mountain homesteads, shearers huts, travellers shelters and many other lonely structures. The text portrays a short history of each hut along with many fascinating accompanying stories! ...Show more
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
The House: The Dramatic Story of the Sydney Opera House and the People Who Made It by Helen Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse. Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera H ...Show more