The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
Australian Falcons: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation by Stephen Debus
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Falcons are stunning and iconic birds. Australia has six falcon species, with two endemic to the continent and two others endemic to the Australasian region. They are important indicators of the health of our ecosystems, due to their position at the top of the food chain. But several species are declini ...Show more
The Silk Merchant's Son by Peter Burke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, silk and sermons. In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with a box full of silkworms to stop him from bringing more disgrace upon the family. Accompanying him on board the Elizabeth are ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Kimberley Bush Food: Edible Plants of the Kimberley Region of Western Australia by Madison King, John Horsfall
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
In an effort to preserve the traditional knowledge of bush food, authors Madison King and nurse educator, John Horsfall, have documented over 350 species of plants and fungi that were regularly gathered by the Indigenous peoples of the Kimberley region before and after colonisation.Kimberley Bush Food i ...Show more
Sundowner of the Skies - Oscar Garden, The Forgotten Aviator by Mary Garden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: new
In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny open-cockpit Gipsy Moth across London's Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person there to farewell him, took off. He had carpet slippers on his feet and a packet of sandwiches on his lap. His plan was to fly t ...Show more
Beating About the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Len Beadell's classic account of the building of the famous Gunbarrel Highway across Central Australia in which he recounts in his own colourful style the outstanding events of its construction.
Native Plants Of Northern Australia: Fully revised new edition by John Brock
$55.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Now Fully updated this new revised edition of Native Plants of Northern Australia with over 450 species are described, with 700 colour photographs. Covers the northern Northern Territory and the offshore islands. Each species is individually presented with photographs, extensive descriptive information ...Show more
Outback Highways by Beadell Len
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Gunbarrel Highway story, and many more ..Len Beadell was often called the last of the true Australian explorers. As a surveyor and road builder he worked all over the outback - from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert. Drawn from his best selling books, these stories sparkle with humour and paint a fas ...Show more
Still in the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Laden with trig poles, theodolites - and porridge - Beadell and his team built roads, laid out town sites and undertook an enormous survey programme in order to prepare a test launching area in one of the most isolated parts of the world. The problems ranged from taking astrofixes in a cloudy sky and be ...Show more
The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. It examines the original "future eaters" who were the first people to leave the Afro-Asian homeland and travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and became the Aboriginal, Maori and other Polynesian ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia by Peter Menkhorst
$54.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia. This book provides concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic features, distribution, habitat, and key behavio ...Show more