We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation by Tim Fischer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
If you are passionate about steam locomotives, or know someone who is, then Steam Australia is the perfect companion. Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating and grand story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia's history. This book is so much more than a h ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars by Duane Hamacher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of ...Show more
People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures by Jon C. Altman
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Over the past four decades Aboriginal people living in remote and regional Australia have been empowered by land rights and native title laws to claim back large tracts of their ancestral lands. Today the Indigenous estate covers over 20 per cent of the continent and includes areas of globally significa ...Show more
Tyenna: Through My Eyes (Australian Disaster Zones) by Julie Hunt, Terry Whitebeach
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones
An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye ...Show more
Wild Forest by Robert Blakers (Editor)
$47.99 AUD
Category: Pictorial Books
WILD FOREST is a stunning and timely new photographic book about Tasmania's unprotected forests, focusing on the Florentine, Styx and Weld Valleys. It features the work of eleven Tasmanian photographers, a foreword by Christine Milne and essays on biodiversity, green carbon and water by Professor Jamie ...Show more
The Henson Case by David Marr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Australian Prime Minister called them 'absolutely revolting'. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraphas a 'Victory for Decency'. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community claimed charges laid over them would affect Australia's cultural reputation. Only now do ...Show more
Power, Culture, Economy Indigenous Australians and Mining by Altman Jon Martin David
$48.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Australian Bushrangers by Coupe Robert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Surveys the history of bushranging in Australia. From the initial, brutal days of European settlement and our first convict - bushranger Black Caeser in 1789 to the capture and death of legendary folk hero Ned Kelly in 1880.
Dignity in a Teacup by Christine Cummins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Chronicles the five years Christine Cummins spent working as a torture and trauma counsellor with asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island. It provides a firsthand account of Australian immigration detention, during a period of dramatic change and controversy. With exclusive access to the stories sha ...Show more