King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith by Ann Blainey
$12.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages- the first trans-Pacific flight from America to Australia, the first circumnavigation around the equator, the first non-stop crossing of the ...Show more
Bush Aussies: True Stories of Australian Country Characters by Allan M. Nixon
$6.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
These true stories of ordinary and extraordinary country characters show what the Aussie way of life is really like outside the big cities. Bush Aussies celebrates the colourful, creative and amazing people who make Australia unique.
Bumper: The Life and times of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell by Larry Writer
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia's history. Frank 'Bumper' Farrell was the roughest, toughest street cop and vice-squad leader Australia has ever seen. Strong as a bull, with cauliflowered ears and fists like hams, Bumper' ...Show more
Old Days, Old Ways: Stories from My Radio Days in the Bush by Alex Nicol
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Former ABC radio presenter Alex Nicol brings back to life the voices and stories of regional Australia from bygone days.
New Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories by Bill Marsh
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
"Where's your thumb?" the doctor asked the injured ringer. "Oh, we stuck it over there on the gatepost, fer safe keepin'." And just as the doctor turned around to the gatepost, he saw a crow heading skyward, thumb and all. From the pilots, doctors and nurses who spread their 'mantle of safety' throughou ...Show more
Akubra is Australian for Hat by Grenville Turner
$7.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is the story of the history-making hat that has been a part of Australian life since 1912. In "Akubra Is Australian for Hat," Grenville Turner takes us on a journey with this unique Australian institution. Aussies have lived, loved, and died under their Akubras, and wearing one has been a longstan ...Show more
Mother Country Australian Photographic Gallery by LEUNIG, HELGA
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1996, Helga Leunig moved to a farm in north-east Victoria in order to raise a family, leaving her career as a professional photographer behind her, or so she thought. Here she made a vegetable patch. Made do.Lived with the beauty, simplicity and peace of country life, as well as with drought and bush ...Show more
My Place - indigenous - FP by Sally Morgan
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Recounting experiences from travels back to her grandmother's birthplace, this classic of Australian literature documents what started out as a tentative search for information about the author's family--and turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. Unearthing political and societa ...Show more
Gold Rush: How I Made, Lost and Made a Fortune by Jim Richards
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Jim Richards left the British army to join a modern-day gold rush, he had no language skills, no money and no idea. Jim has prospected and mined in some of the maddest, most dangerous places on earth, where isolation, disease and violent criminals come with the territory. He has struck gold and dia ...Show more
Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines by Fred R. Myers
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Pintupi, a hunting-and-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert, were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society. Despite their extended relocation in central Australian settlements, they have managed to preserve much of their traditional culture and social organization. ...Show more
Monash by Grantlee Kieza
$12.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia; the first major biography of Monash in over a decade. John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much - heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider: poor, Jewish in an era which still practised anti - Semitism, bookish at a ...Show more