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
Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Great Australian Stories
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...' Boasting the biggest beat ...Show more
Eighties: the Decade That Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, th ...Show more
Working Dog Heroes: How One Man Gives Shelter Dogs New Life and Purpose by Steve Austin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
A great Aussie yarn packed with inspiring stories of shelter dogs that have been given new life and purpose - and turned around the lives of others. Steve Austin isn't your average dog trainer. In this feelgood, yarn-laden memoir he shares amazing stories from a career of rescuing and training shelter ...Show more
Central Station: True Stories of Outback Life - the Good, the Bad and the Dusty by Central Station Blog
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Meet the people who live and work on Australia's most remote cattle stations, from the Kimberley in WA to northern Queensland, as they share their stories in their own words. Have you ever wondered what it's like living hundreds of kilometres from the nearest supermarket? Or having a million-acre backya ...Show more
Australia's Haunted History by Trudy Toohill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Many of these historical accounts of spectral hauntings and strange happenings were documented in early Australian newspapers and have been accurately transcribed in the pages of this book. These ghostly sightings will challenge even the most ardent sceptic. Many of these chilling events remain largely ...Show more
Horseman of the Outback: Their Spurs and Spurmakers by Don John Edward Corcoran
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
This is an extremely well researched work which will be treasured by all horse riders. It is a very thorough account of Australian spurs and the bush blacksmiths like Fred Gutte who designed his on Wave Hill Station, but is is much more that that. If offers a romantic folklore of the horsemaen who used ...Show more
Great Australian Journeys by Graham Seal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM..Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endur ...Show more
Portrait of Australia: Best Stories from 30 years of Australian Geographic by Australian Geographic
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
For 30 years Australian Geographic journalists have revealed the rich diversity of a nation. From schoolyards to parliament and the outback to the ocean, they have reported on Australia and Australians, both ordinary and extraordinary, going about their daily lives. Within these pages are photographs of ...Show more
Aussie Dog Stories by Paul Bugeja
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
A fascinating look at both famous and not-so-famous dogs from Down Under. There's the 'Red Dog', celebrated in a movie in 2011, and 'Bob the Railway Dog', which has a best-selling book written about him. There are assistance animals and guide dogs, war heroes and everyday ones, dogs that save lives and ...Show more
Fences of Australia by Jack Bradshaw
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Starting with 7,000-year-old Aboriginal fish traps and ending with a look into the future in a chapter on virtual fencing, Jack Bradshaw traces the history of Australia's fences in words and pictures.
Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks by Deirdre Slattery
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. It introduces the reader to some of Australia's highest mountains, their climate, geology and soils, plants and animals and their human history. It traces the long-running conflicts between successive users of the m ...Show more