A Short History of Australia by Manning Clark
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
in this lively, very readable book, the eminent and controversial historian Manning Clark portrays the evolution of Australia with remarkable breadth of vision. He begins with the Aborigines and the coming of white men, then traces the progress of the First Fleet to Botany Bay, the unfurling of the Brit ...Show more
Wise Women of the Dreamtime : Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers by K.Langloh Parker
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Extending deep into the caverns of humanity's oldest memories, beyond 60,000 years of history and into the Dreamtime, this collection of Australian Aboriginal myths has been passed down through the generations by tribal storytellers. The myths were compiled at the turn of the century by K. Langloh Parke ...Show more
HACKERS : THE HUNT FOR AUSTRALIA'S MOST INFAMOUS COMPUTER CRACKER by BILL APRO AND GRAEME HAMMOND
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Who Rides? : Events in the Life of a West Australian Police Officer by H. E. Graves
$290.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Fairbridge : The Building of a Farm School by RUTH FAIRBRIDGE
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
BLAZING THE WESTERN TRAILS : THE STORY OF WILLIAM KENNEDY, PIONEER AND PATHFINDER- SIGNED by LESLIE J GOMM
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Wool: The Australian Story by Richard Woldendorp
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Written by a team of three freelance writers, this text presents a survey of the contemporary Australian wool industry. Roger McDonald covers more than 200 years of sheep raising history on the Australian continent in the introduction. The main part of the volume consists of Richard Woldendorp's col
Bush Food - Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine by Jennifer Isaacs
$35.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal people have lived, and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of native plants and a deep understanding of the value of many animal products. BUSH FOOD is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the kinds of ...Show more
Breaking the Sheep's Back: The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry (Prize Winner PM's shortlist 2012) by Charles Massy
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of the events that led to Australia's biggest industry disaster. Once a great nation-building icon, the wool business today is but a third of its size when Australia 'rode on the sheep's back'. Compared to the more recent Australian Wheat Board scandal, 40 t ...Show more
Women on the Warpath : Feminists of the First Wave by Dianne Davidson
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Formed in 1909, the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia were prominent in the country's first wave of feminism. This history covers such topics as the conflicts between the various Guilds, the influence of theosophy, the newspaper Dawn, and the decline of the Guilds with the rise of the mor
The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
The Lady Vanishes by Alison Sandy, Bryan Seymour, Sally Eeles, Marc Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. Australia's most extraordinary missing persons case is examined by the journalists who created the global hit podcast into the disappearance of Marion Barter, a mother of two who simply vanished. ...Show more