Around the Sheds by Andrew Chapman
Category: Australiana
From Andrew Chapman, the best-selling author of Woolsheds, comes a stunning new photographic book exploring the world around the sheds - the shearers, the roustabouts, the dogs, the dunnies and the sheds themselves. On his photographic odyssey, Andrew Chapman takes us on a visual journey where much has ...Show more
Emporium : Selling the Dream in Colonial Australia by Edwin Barnard
Category: Australiana
A new wonder cure...the latest fashion...a revolutionary gadget...few can resist the siren song of advertising, and our colonial ancestors were as susceptible as we are. Perhaps that electric hair brush really could help to cure baldness, and wouldn't it be wonderful if those strange new cannabis cigare ...Show more
The Best Australian Bush Stories by Jim Haynes
Category: Australiana
Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond ...an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
West: Visual Celebrations of W.A by Frances Andrijich
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Photographic Gallery
The beauty of The West lies in its wondrous diversity - the people, the communities and the landscape. Go west on an exhilarating and whimsical journey with one of Australia's finest photographers and take in the richness: from the red earth of the north to the forests of the South West, from sublime Ca ...Show more
Great Australian Bush Priests Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
The Origins, Career and Destruction of the Kelly Gang by F Hunter
Category: Australiana
In October 1878, Victorian Police were instructed to find the Kelly Gang, using the first ever photo I.D.; but the Kellys found them first... 'When Kennedy and Scanlon were gone the other two set about camp work. McIntyre, who had the cooking for the day in hand, had disembarrassed himself of his weapo ...Show more
Consuming ANZAC - The History of Australia's Most Powerful Brand by Jo Hawkins
Category: Australiana
In the years after the Great War, Australian memorials were often engraved with a simple request, 'Let silent contemplation be your offering'. Today, remembrance is fuelled by a booming Anzac industry. Luxury cruises to far-flung battlegrounds, commemorative sporting contests, blockbuster books, newspap ...Show more
Born in 1962? by Williams, Ron
Category: Australiana
. ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense. I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. ...Show more
The Definition of Aussie Slang - Making Sense of the Aussie Language by New Holland Publishers
Category: Australiana
Card Pack with 95 cards and a stand holder for the cards in a box set Aussie Slang. Australian slang, known as 'Strine', is a way of using certain words and phrases that have become iconic to Australians. This is the perfect gift pack for any visitor or guest trying to fit in with our Aussie society. E ...Show more
It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Meaningful Constitutional Recognition and Reform by Megan Davis & Marcia Langton (ed.)
Category: Australiana
It is a collection of short essays by leading and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander thinkers and leaders. Edited by and including contributions from Megan Davis and Marcia Langton, it conveys to Australians why indigenous peoples should have a direct say in the decisions that affect their l ...Show more
Australia's Coast: Photographs from the Australian Geographic Image Collection by Australian Geographic
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
Including its castaway islands, Australia's perimeter stretches for nearly 60,000km - enough to lap the equator one and a half times. Of this tally, 94 per cent of the coast rolls wild and free, barely altered by humankind. Enjoy this pictorial voyage around its shores, bays, harbours and beneath its wa ...Show more
Outback: The Discovery of Australia's Interior by Derek Parker
Category: Australiana | Series: Bus Plus Publishing Ser.
In 1800, while the coast of Australia had finally been charted, the vast interior of the continent, and routes across its deserts and mountains from north to south and east to west lay all undiscovered. By 1874, its lands had been all but won. Derek Parker's new and exciting book gathers together the st ...Show more