Bush Food: Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine by Jennifer Isaacs
$54.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal People have lived, and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of their 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 ki ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$16.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
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
Close to the Subject : Selected Works by Daniel Browning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
Compassion by Julie Janson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
‘You can’t enslave us all, Captain!’ I yelled into his face. ‘We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...’From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA) and the Barbara Jefferis Award shortlisted Benevolence, Compassion contin ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
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 Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
$54.99 AUD
Category: Art
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
A1 fold AIATSIS map Indigenous Australia by Aboriginal Studies Press
$14.99 AUD
Category: General
ASP's best-selling publication. An attractive educational tool which aims to represent all the language groups of Australia's Indigenous people.
OUT OF THE DESERT by BULUGARDIE HONEY
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
Out of the Desert is a compelling collection of stories, art and photographs from the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert, in north western Australia. It tells of their remarkable exodus from remote desert country to an unfamiliar modern society. Within only one generation the Walmajarri desert ...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