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A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
American Journeys by Don Watson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek's 50 'What to Read Now and Why' titles.Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed ...Show more
American Journeys by WATSON Don
$49.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In May 2005, on a sudden impulse, Don Watson took a train called The Southwest Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles: like a woodworm, he thought, drilling a tiny groove into the bark of the republic. Long before it reached LA, Watson had decided to catch more trains to more places in America. Winner of 200 ...Show more
American Journeys by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek's 50 'What to Read Now and Why' titles. Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Austrtalia by Don Watson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession.
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
On Indignation( On Series) by Don Watson
$17.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: On Ser.
Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos, from the Old Testament to ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen. Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the "thicket of unreality" that is the American media. Behin ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart by Don Watson
$27.95 AUD
Category: General
If he had never become Prime Minister Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's worki ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's work ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson (Read by); Hamish Hamilton
$49.95 AUD
Category: Audio Books
Bestselling authorWinner NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Book of the Year Award 2015"Watson's magnificent, celebratory, contradictory study of the Australian bush will challenge the national imagination." --Thomas Keneally, winner of the Booker PrizeAn unputdownable journey, showcasing Watson's trademar ...Show more