Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinge ...Show more
Staircase to the Moon by Bronwyn Houston
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children
How does a young girl with a yearning for adventure get to the moon? Why, she climbs the staircase of course! In this book, a young girl and her grandfather sneak away from home one night in a bid to climb the staircase to the moon.
Last Truck Out by Betty Lockyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
WWII, 1942 - Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 12 ...Show more
The Australian Aboriginal by Herbert Basedow
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Australian Aboriginal, originally written in 1925, describes the ceremonial and day-to-day lives of traditional Aboriginal people, as witnessed by Herbert Basedow, who from 1903 travelled the most remote areas of Australia. This book is a reissued edition with a new forward by David M. Welch and man ...Show more
Kimberley Encounters - In Our Parents' Footsteps by Ruth Russell (Editor); Rosalyn Roberts (Editor); Laurel Warhurst (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Retelling the stories of their time in Derby, the Leprosarium and Kunmunya Mission in the 1940s
The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point by Trina Saffioti
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
They placed the lei around her neck and a frangipani crown on her head. They put bangles around her wrists and the ukulele in her arms. ‘Now you are a real island princess.’Based on the experiences of the author’s mother, The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point is a touching story that follows a yo ...Show more
Songlines: First Knowledges for younger readers by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
How do you find your way around, get your food and drink, connect with your friends and family? How do you know the right and safe way to do things, or how to make things? Before the white people came to the continent, all Australian Aboriginal people knew how to do all these things - and much, much mor ...Show more
Making Fire by Stephen Blake; David M. Welch
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
An essential survival guide. Making fire is a basic survival skill, a way of attracting attention if one is lost alone in remote bushland. Shown here without using modern tools, it is possible to use crude pieces of rock to fashion fire sticks and from these, to make fire.
Maku (Our Stories) by Meyne Wyatt
$13.99 AUD
Category: Children Fiction
Maku loves watching movies - it's his favourite thing in the world to do. He especially loves the ones about awesome superheroes saving the day. Maku's second most favourite thing to do is camping and going bush with his Nan and Pop. OUR STORIES is a funny, relatable and engaging new early-chapter boo ...Show more
You Call it Desert - We Used to Live There. by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This rare glimpse of life in the Great Sandy Desert exploresthe resourcefulness and ingenuity of the Walmajarri people, Australia s desert dwellers. A vibrant blend of personal recollection, history, Aboriginal art, and Australian indigenous studies, this survey will shed light on the lives of a scarcel ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | 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