Labassa: House of Dreams by Vicki Shuttleworth
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Labassa, with its Euro-Germanic motifs was the most opulent and highly decorated mansion built during the 1880s Land Boom. Most of Australia's historic mansions are now long gone but Labassa's unique ambience survives with its historic decoration.The story of Labassa is traced from modest villa, to mans ...Show more
The Beach Caves by Trevor Shearston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
'Please. I'm in hell!' The truth of that was in his face. The rims of his eyes were red-raw, his hair was matted, he hadn't shaved since knocking at her door, when he'd been clean-shaven - one of the few details she remembered of that blurred encounter. 'I know why you're avoiding me. Whoever told the c ...Show more
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 by Fiona Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The power of history written down can be both lethal and deceptive, and that has long-lasting effects, both for those writing and those being written about.In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and inj ...Show more
Iconic Melbourne by Mark Rusic (Original Author, Artist, Photographer, Text by, Prepared for Publication by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Iconic Melbourne Australian showcases more than 20 of Melbourne's finest locations utilising artist, Mark Rusic's own original collection of paintings, poetry and photography, to present Melbourne in a most unique, dynamic and fresh way. What sets Iconic Melbourne Australia apart is not only how we lea ...Show more
The Last Snake Man by Jimmy Thomson (As told to); John Cann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. B ...Show more
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts: A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two.So how ...Show more
Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical Christians In Australian History, 1914-2014 by Stuart Piggin, Robert D Linder
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
In this major new contribution Stuart Piggin and Robert Linder tell the story of how Australian evangelical Christians responded to the decline of the British empire and to the expanding international reach of their religious mission and beliefs, of how these Christians reacted to the challenges of secu ...Show more
Twenty to the Mile: The Overland Telegraph Line: The greatest engineering feat of 19th century Australia by Derek Pugh
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia
The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph. This is a history of the Overland Telegragh Line from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, written for its 150th anniversary. The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of d ...Show more
Boundless Plains to Share: Australia's Agribusiness Partnership with Asia - Century 21 by Keiron Costello
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australia
Boundless Plains to Share is the broadest contemporary compendium ever published on Australian agriculture and agribusiness. It provides an expansive outlook on the burgeoning food trade with Asia, and also charts future opportunities and challenges. Boundless Plains to Share is a visual and ideas feast ...Show more
Call of the Outback: The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill by Van Velzen Marianne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The incredible life story of the original nomadic writer, Ernestine Hill.
Wild Beauty by Vanessa Hunter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Over the course of four years, journalist Graham Lloyd and photographer Vanessa Hunter sought out Australia's wildest, most significant and least known natural phenomena.Wild Beauty is an intimate showcase of 26 of these places, which represent the country's oldest, tallest, longest and more special nat ...Show more