Woolsheds & Around the Sheds Slipcase by CHAPMAN, ANDREW
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Women of Spirit by Anne Crawford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Inspiring true-life stories of women who've grown up connected with the country or who've fallen in love with it or with the men working it. Women who've struggled through bushfires, floods, poverty, discrimination and accidents to come out smiling at the other end. Stories of hardship, triumph, resilie ...Show more
The Bush - Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Reading Level: good-very good
Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke ...Show more
I Once Met a Man - R. M. Williams by R. M. Williams; John Howard (Foreword by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Understand, then, that these chapters are concerned with the spirit of men and women from whom something of worth has shone out to make them worthy of record. You will note that the book is not of deeds, achievement, great honour; just that indefinable something that has no other name in our language bu ...Show more
Great Australian Droving Stories by Bill Marsh
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
the world of the Australian drover is almost forgotten. In this book we hear of the men (and women) who travelled vast distances along Australia's stock routes. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travelled around Australia gathering their stories.Before utes, planes and helicopters, mustering and droving were done by ...Show more
Amazing Grace: Great Australian Bush Priest Stories by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Great Australian stories of faith and friendship in outback Australia, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh - bestselling author of Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories and Great Australian CWA Stories. 'The term "Bible bashing" took on new meaning in our household ...Mum used to suffer from ...Show more
Legends of the Outback by Marie Mahood
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Heroes, visionaries and eccentrics... Outback writer Marie Mahood is the author of the much loved ICING ON THE DAMPER AND A BUNCH OF STRAYS. In the 1960's she raised cattle and kids on the world's most remote cattle station, Mongrel Downs, in the Tanami Desert. Here she writes about the heroes, visionar ...Show more
Australia - Images and Inspiration by Mocco Wollert
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
AUSTRALIA -Images and Inspiration combines the talents of two very creative Australians -author Mocco Wollert and visual artist Glenise Clelland. Australia's vastness has inspired many other artists and authors but the words and images in this book are as diverse as the two women who created them. Each ...Show more
Aussie Slang Down Under by Diane McInnes
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
This book is chockers with colourful Australian slang. This unique dialect is widely spoken across Australia and manifests experiences from the country's broad history. From borrowing Aboriginal words, through convict roots, the gold rush and bush ranging years to the First World War, these words have e ...Show more
Outback Vets by Annabelle Brayley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
An in-depth look at the challenging lives of Australia's gutsy rural vets--smart, spirited men and women who care for animals, big and small, in remote communities all over the country. The stakes are high for the vets charged with caring for Australia's rural livestock, wildlife, and beloved family pet ...Show more
Shearers by Evan McHugh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
The story of Australia, told from the woolsheds. 'For much of its history Australia has been described as riding on the sheep's back . . . but if the country rode on anyone's back, it was on the aching, creaking, flexing spines of Australian shearers.' Armed with their blades, a sense of adventure and ...Show more
Not Your Usual Bushrangers by Peter Macinnis
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Take a journey with one of Australia's most accessible history and science writers into an early Australia that extends beyond the Wild Colonial Boy and the Kelly Gang.Discover the endearing Moondyne Joe and Diver Fitzgerald, scallywags rather than villains, as well as some who affected a gentlemanly fr ...Show more