Best Australian Racing Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Ever since he was a kid, Jim Haynes has been captivated by the exciting and colorful world of horse racing. Whether it's the love of a satin-coated thoroughbred, the scurrying touts and coat-tuggers, the surge of a last minute betting plunge in the ring, or the thrill of a close-fought finish that takes ...Show more
Australia by Steve Parish
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Australia is an ancient island continent of contrasts and extremes, from the desiccated deserts of the inland to lush tropical rainforests, from modern cities to isolated outback communities, from snow-covered mountains to snow-white beaches. The human story of Australia is one of enterprise and perseve ...Show more
Paddle Eastern Australia: New South Wales and Queensland - a Canoeing and Camping Guide by Chris McLaughlin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
A canoeing and camping guide that covers New South Wales and Queensland. It also includes a paddle smart, paddle safe section.
Killers in Eden: The Story of a Rare Partnership Between Men and Killer Whales by Danielle Clode; Erich Fitzgerald (Contribution by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
For a century, the killer whales of Twofold Bay herded baleen whales towards the harpoons of local whalers, helping them hunt and sharing the rewards. It was a life of industry, adventure and a strange and rare partnership between whale and man. In Killers in Eden, Danielle Clode explores how this relat ...Show more
Old-Timers by Sandy Thorne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
In Old-Timers jillaroo cum opal miner cum bush humourist, Sandy Thorne, has assembled 20 vital snapshots of Australian life that tantalise with their energy, originality and genuine pioneering spirit. Meet Jenny Marshall, contract musterer, ex-amateur jockey, known as 'F...kin' Jenny' after her favourit ...Show more
Australia's Coast: Photographs from the Australian Geographic Image Collection by Australian Geographic
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
Including its castaway islands, Australia's perimeter stretches for nearly 60,000km - enough to lap the equator one and a half times. Of this tally, 94 per cent of the coast rolls wild and free, barely altered by humankind. Enjoy this pictorial voyage around its shores, bays, harbours and beneath its wa ...Show more
Destination Tropical Paradise by Ken Duncan
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
This book includes stunning photographs from the Whitsunday Islands in the south all the way up th eastern coast to the very tip of Cape York Peninsula.
Outback Stations: The Life and Times of Australia's Biggest Cattle and Sheep Properties by Evan McHugh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperbark trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. And grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. And my country, Australia.' This is big country, the outbac ...Show more
Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860s-1930s by Philip Jones
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Between 1870 and 1920, as many as 2,000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across ou ...Show more
A Field Guide to Wildlife of the Australian Snow Country by Ken Green
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
This is a comprehensive field guide to Australia's high mountain fauna and environment - an environment that extends for more than five degrees of latitude. Exploring the inter-relationships between snow cover and wildlife, the authors combine ecological details and species accounts. At the heart of the ...Show more
On the Trail of the Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Generations of Australians have fallen in love with the silver brumbies of Elyne Mitchell's classic children's stories. Now, for the centenary of Elyne's birth, comes this celebration in words and pictures of the brumby heartland: the glorious Australian Alps that were Elyne's inspiration and great pass ...Show more
Capturing Time: Panoramas of old Australia by Edwin Barnard
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Panoramas, whether painted or photographed, were the nineteenth-century equivalent of IMAX or Google maps. These wide-angled views of landscapes and cities fascinated viewers, who had never before seen such far-reaching perspectives on the world around them. Based on the National Library of Australias e ...Show more