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Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe; Vicky Shukuroglou
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
Loving Country is a book that inspires ultimate respect for Mother Earth and the role of her custodians. While readers are encouraged to discover the sacred country of Australia in an open-minded and sensitive manner, the intention of this book is to foster communication and understanding between all pe ...Show more
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
Truth Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more
Killing Sydney - The Fight for a City's Soul by Elizabeth Farrelly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
I've lived in Sydney some thirty years. But I feel that the city I love is under genuine threat. Motorways, Mirrorglass, McMansions: this knock-down-rebuild mentality is everywhere. I get hundreds of emails, all the time, from people who are infuriated, or despairing, over what is happening to Sydney. A ...Show more
People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia by Grace Karskens
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.
Black Summer: Stories of Loss, Courage and Community from the 2019-2020 Bushfires by Michael Rowland (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Told by ABC journalists who were on the ground and broadcasting during our worst ever fire season, spearheaded by Michael Rowland The bushfires that burnt across Australia from June 2019 to February
Fire Flood and Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
The Rock: Looking into Australia's 'Heart of Darkness' from the Edge of Its Wild Frontier by Aaron Smith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Journalist Aaron Smith's new memoir holds up a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbing and revealing. The Rock explores the failings of our nation's character, its unresolved past and its uncertain future from the vantage point of its most northerly outpost, Thursday Isla ...Show more
Dead in the Water: A Very Angry Book about Our Greatest Environmental Catastrophe... the Death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more ...Show more
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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 ...Show more
Truganini: Journey Through Apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Aborigine'. 'A compelling story, beautifully told' - JULIA BAIRD, author and broadcaster 'At last, a book to give Truganini the proper attention she deserves.' - GAYE SCULTHORPE, Curator of Oceania, The Briti ...Show more
What Ever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head? by Eamon Evans
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian