Melbourne Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Reading Level: 5.5 Travel
Remember dropping into the Coles Cafeteria on Bourke Street for a feast of rashers, sausages and mash, with gravy, from the bain marie? Or catching a 'red rattler' into the city? Eating a hot jam doughnut from the American Doughnut Kitchen van at the Queen Vic markets? If you answered yes to any of thes ...Show more
Black Saturday - That's Not the End of the Story by Peg Fraser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: History of Australia Ser.
The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation's history. In the wake of this tragedy much media and public commentar ...Show more
Black Snake: The Real Story of Ned Kelly by Leo Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Leo Kennedy is the great grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy and was raised in the shadow of his great grandfather's murder. Leo is a member of the Blue Ribbon Foundation, which supports police families and honours the memory of police killed in the line of duty. He lives with his family in Melbourne, ...Show more
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more
Bypass: The Story of a Road by Michael McGirr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
"All the dirt on the Hume Highway" (Shane Maloney)The Hume Highway runs from Sydney to Melbourne. Like all the great roads of the world, it is longer than it is wide. Flabby, unfit and forty, Michael McGirr decided to ride a pushbike from one end to the other. For most of his life, he had regarded the H ...Show more
Australia Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Remember grabbing a copy of the late edition afternoon paper from the paper boy? Watching a Graham Kennedy skit on TV? Did you buy a 45rpm single or a 33rpm album at your local record shop? And play it on your record player? If you answered yes to any of these questions chances are you are part of the B ...Show more
Australia's Greatest Escape Stories from Two World Wars (PB) by Colin Burgess
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A collection of stories about the most dangerous aspect of the Australian prisoner of war experience - escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men who tunnelled to freedom, crawled by night through stinking drains, rappelled down stone wa ...Show more
Kate Kelly: The True Story of Ned Kelly's Little Sister by Rebecca Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Kate Kelly has always been overshadowed by her famous brother Ned, but the talented young woman was a popular public figure in her own right. This moving biography tells her astonishing story in full for the first time.Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, was mysteriously fou ...Show more
Gariwerd An Environmental History of the Grampians by Benjamin Wilkie
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. Gariwerd: A History of the Grampians explores the geological and ecological significance ...Show more
Walking in Gagudju Country: Exploring the Monsoon Forest by Diane Lucas, Ben Tyler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Walk with us through one of the Top End's magnificent monsoon forests, in Kakadu National Park, learning about the plants, animals and Kundjeyhmi culture along the way. When we go walking, we never know how long we will be, what we will hear and what we will see.We pack our bags with food and water, a ...Show more
Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
An original and riveting biography of two of the most singular women Australia has ever seen.Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Wes ...Show more
Walking with the Anzacs: An updated guide to Australian battlefields of the Western Front by Mat McLachlan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Now fully revised for 2023, this is the essential and comprehensive guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front for anyone who wants to walk in the footsteps of the Anzacs. From one of Australia's leading battlefield historians, Mat McLachlan, Walking with the Anzacs covers the fourteen mo ...Show more