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A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
"A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
American Journeys by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek's 50 'What to Read Now and Why' titles. Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed ...Show more
American Journeys by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek's 50 'What to Read Now and Why' titles.Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$12.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
On Indignation by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
With characteristic wit , Don Watson explores indignation through generations of his family and their Old Testament rages. He asks why wounded pride or a sense of injustice unleashes the furies and whether there is ever virtue in it. Dazzling in its humour and eloquence, Watson turns to George W. Bush - ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen. Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the "thicket of unreality" that is the American media. Behin ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$49.95 AUD
Category: Audiobook
While most Australians live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, 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
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, 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 a livi ...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
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land – a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers. ‘How to sum up this story? It’ ...Show more
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious) by Don Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Reference
A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are - and who we are likely to become. Don Watson's The Story of Australia is a modern history of our nation that integrates new understandings about Ind ...Show more