Spinifex Mouse by Norma MacDonald
$21.95 AUD
Category: Children
Spinifex Mouse is the heartwarming tale of Cheeky, a spinifex hopping mouse, who lives in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Cheeky is an adventurous little mouse who loves to leap high into the air and practice acrobatic tricks. Every morning, when his family have returned to their burrow to slee ...Show more
Gagudju Man: the Environmental and Spiritual Philosophy of a Senior Traditional Owner, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia by Bill Neidjie
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Here, Bill Neidjie - manager and negotiator of the Bunitj Clan Estate, which forms part of Kakadu National Park, relives the past in order to give some meaningful structure to the future. And he attempts to help non-Aboriginal people understand the bond between Aborginial people and their traditionally ...Show more
The Bauhinia Tree: The Life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight by Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With deep roots in Australia's Kimberley region, Olive Knight shares her story of growing up with the Gooniyandi and Walmatjarri peoples of northwestern Australia. As the daughter of a half-caste father, she was nearly killed on the day of her birth, as was customary for halfblood children in her commun ...Show more
Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Life by Harry Allen
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led an expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life. Blandowski explores the potential of images to por ...Show more
Ngaanyatjarra - Art of the Lands by Tim Acker; John Carty
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Ngaanyatjarra: Art of the Lands is a glorious illustrated book documenting the six art centres (Warakurna, Papulankutja, Tjarlirli, Kayili, Maruku and Tjanpi) that make up the Western Desert Mob group. This book combines the aesthetics of an art catalogue with the rigour of an academic art history, and ...Show more
Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a te ...Show more
Waiting at the Gate by Robyn Caughlan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of five, after years of abuse, and just months after the death of her father, Robyn was sent on a holiday and was never returned to her family. She waited at the gate for her mother to return but it soon dawned on her that her family was not coming to get her. This is Robyn's story. From humb ...Show more
Mrs White and the Red Desert by Josie Boyle
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children
Age range 3 to 8 When a group of desert children invite their school teacher, Mrs White, home for dinner to show her why their homework is always grubby, no-one expects what is to come! They are happily showing Mrs White their higgledy piggledy garden when suddenly a big red sand storm comes billowing o ...Show more
Bip the Snapping Bungaroo by Narelle McRobbie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children
Back by popular demand, this exciting new edition of Bip the Snapping Bungaroo is set to captivate young readers once again. Bungaroo is the Australian Yidin people's word for turtle. Bip the snapping turtle is renowned for his very loud SNAP! When Bip awakes one day to find he can't snap any more, the ...Show more