Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
47.45 AUD
49.95 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history by Hugh Tranter
47.50 AUD
49.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra ...Show more
Spirit of Arnhem Land: Aboriginal Australian by Tweedie Penny
42.99 AUD
45.00 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
ituated in the far reaches of the Northern Territory, Arnhem Land is one of the few regions of Australia where traditional Aboriginal culture remains intact. Author/Photographer Penny Tweedie’s twenty year relationship with the people of Arnhem Land has given her unparalleled access into their lives and ...Show more
Summertime: Reflections on a Fractured Future by Danielle Celermajer
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Philosopher Danielle Celermajer's story of Jimmy the pig caught the world's attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20. Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Cele ...Show more
Telling Tennant's Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by Dean Ashenden
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian Politics
Tennant Creek and Australia's Unresolved Past The tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact.Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out ...Show more
The Art of Science by Fornasiero
37.95 AUD
39.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a three-and-a-half-year voyage to the 'Southern Lands', charting coasts ...Show more
The Beijing Bureau: Reporting China's Rise by Trevor Watson (Editor); Melissa Roberts (Editor)
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
The Beijing Bureau is a collection of essays from twenty-four of Australia's leading foreign correspondents revealing their experiences and insights into China, from the 1970s to present day: the lives of its people, its government and its culture, and what China's rise means for Australia and the world ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars by Duane Hamacher
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of ...Show more
The First Fleet by Rob Mundle
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition unde ...Show more
The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia by Patricia Clancy
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian Biography
A former Parisian courtesan, bare-back-rider and polka dancer, Celeste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne when she arrived in 1854 as the Frenc Consul's wife. Her vivid first-hand memories of years spent in the diplomatic and government house circles and on the goldfields reveal her as a woman of great ...Show more