Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
26.80 AUD
27.99 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and Wartime Legend by David Dufty
28.50 AUD
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Category: Australian History
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.
Killing for Country: A Family Story Indie Book of the Year 2024 by David Marr
34.99 AUD
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Category: Australian History
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
45.00 (22% off)
Category: Australian History
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery - to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land ...Show more
Spiders of Australia - ID Chart: Fold-out Id Chart Covering More Than 50 Key Spider Species and Families by Reed New Holland Publishers
7.60 AUD
7.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Australia is famed for its venomous and potentially deadly spiders, such as the Sydney Funnel-web and the Redback Spider. However, the vast majority of the more than 3,000 described species – with thousands more awaiting official description and classification – are harmless to humans. This easy-to-use ...Show more
Bush Birds of Australia - ID Chart: Fold-out sheet covering 60 birds of forests and woodlands by Reed New Holland
7.60 AUD
7.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Part of Reed New Holland’s exciting easy-to-use ID-chart series, this eye-catching fold-out sheet depicts a selection of the bird species most commonly seen in ‘wilder’ habitats such as woodland, forest and scrub, with a particular emphasis on those found not far from Australian towns and cities. It inc ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
44.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
29.99 AUD
34.99 (14% off)
Category: Australian Writing & Language
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming by Stan Grant
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Category: Australiana | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Quarterly Essay 64, Stan Grant takes a deep and passionate look at Indigenous futures, in particular the fraught question of remote communities. Moving beyond simplistic talk of "lifestyle choices," Grant explores what makes for a sustainable community and life, and then asks- what can we do to insti ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
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Category: Australian History
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence by Corey Tutt
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written by Corey Tutt, author of The First Scientists, this book features the profiles of 80 Blakfellas who are doing deadly things across sport, art, activism and s ...Show more