A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
Category: First Nations Voices
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
Category: First Nations Voices
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Because I Love Him by Ashlee Donohue
Category: First Nations Voices
Because I Love Him by Ashlee Donohue is a memoir of privileged insight into strong family ties, the intricacies of relationships and the unspoken expectations within urban Aboriginal communities. This is a very personal account of love, loss, addiction, motherhood and domestic violence. Ashlee chronicle ...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)
Category: Australian Culture
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
Australian Geographic High Country by Chriss, Munn
Category: Australian Culture
The 9th title in the new series of photographic souvenir guides to the iconic places of Australia from Australian Geographic and Woodslane Press. This 64-page large format book is full of vibrant photography, and is accompanied by a concise but fascinating commentary from one of Australia’s leading trav ...Show more
Astronomy: Sky Country (First Knowledges) by Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history.Many First Peoples regard the land a ...Show more
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
Category: First Nations Voices
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Wild Ride: The Story of the Australian Stock Saddle by Fiona Carruthers
Category: Australian Culture
When Clancy rode down the Cooper, Ned Kelly went on the run and Hugh Jackman's Drover headed for Darwin, they all rode in an Australian stock saddle.Developed in response to the unique challenges of the Australian environment, the Australian stock saddle is known for its comfort and ease when riding, es ...Show more
Renniks Australian Pre-Decimal Coin Varieties 3/e by Ian Mcconnelly
Category: Australian Culture
Compiled, written and researched by popular Coin and Banknote Magazine contributor, Ian McConnelly, this book is a 'must have' for all Australian Pre-Decimal variety collectors. This is the new 3rd edition.
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
Category: First Nations Voices
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Australian Bush Pubs 3/e: A Celebration of Outback Australia's Iconic Watering Holes by Craig Lewis
Category: Australian Culture
This popular visual pub crawl across outback Australia is lavishly illustrated with striking and fascinating full-colour photographs. It features an eclectic collection of historic outback watering holes, including such classics as Queensland’s famous Birdsville Hotel and New South Wales’ characterful S ...Show more