Historic Woolsheds of the Western District 2024 Calendar
20.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
They Rescued Us - Aboriginal Heroes on Country by Fred Cahir
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This book acknowledges the rescues of thousands of colonists by Aboriginal people from life threatening situations such as bush fires, floods, shipwrecks and being lost in the bush. It pays tribute to their knowledge, mercy and courage they showed by freely rescuing the invaders who sought to occupy the ...Show more
More Great Properties of Country Victoria: The Western District's Golden Age by Richard Allen, Kimbal Baker
60.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
English novelist Anthony Trollope described the Western District squatters in the 1870s as 'plentiful, proud, prejudiced, given to hospitality, impatient of contradiction a thoughtful on the future, and above all, conscious-perhaps a little too conscious-of their own importance a forty thousand sheep ca ...Show more
The Mallee: A Journey Through North-West Victoria (HB) by Adam McNicol (Text by, Photographer); Erin Jonasson (Photographer); Phil Campbell (Designed by, Photographer); Andrew Chapman (Photographer); Noel Butcher (Photographer); Melanie Dove (Photographer); Heather Ewart (Foreword by); Jaime Murcia (Photographer)
60.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Between 1880 and 1930, a series of schemes brought thousands of settlers to Victoria’s Mallee region. At the same time, a number of railway lines were constructed through the area, with towns constructed approximately every 10 miles. Now, almost a century after the settlement schemes ended and the depop ...Show more
Australia's Lost Heroes: Anzacs in the Russian Civil War 1919 by Damien Wright
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia’s Lost Heroes tells the astonishing little-known story of the Australian soldiers who fought the Red Army in Russia in 1919 and the personal odyssey, 100 years later, to locate and identify the lost grave ...Show more
HAMILTON EISTEDDFODD 50 YEARS OF DANCE AND MUSIC by LUHRS, D ROBINSON M ET AL
50.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Snapshots from Home by Sasha Wasley
29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'Many of our townsfolk will be familiar with the sight of schoolteacher Miss Edith Stark and her small assistant Miss Katherine Macmillan calling upon the homes of our country's bravest to take heart-warming portraits of the soldiers' near and dear, whether these be animal, mineral or vegetable. One won ...Show more
Storm over Bakery Hill by William Cotter
29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
In the frantic days of the Victorian gold rushes, few made their fortunes. Most did not. Storm Over Bakery Hill concerns some of those people. A widow, endeavouring to create a life after the death of her ex-convict husband. Her son, determined to reject his father's legacy. A policeman seeking revenge. ...Show more
The Archipelago of Us: A Search for Our Identity in Australia’s Most Remote Territories by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australia's complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.Five years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Renee Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories o ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory 'Sorry, mate, but that's the message.' Zak says to grow some balls and defend him. You've got to remember he is still a young bloke, stuck in Darwin prison where it's always hot, the food is slop and they get rats in the wet season. It's not enough jus ...Show more