Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
'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, Bruc ...Show more
The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads by Ameliah Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads. "The inspiring story of the intrepid Dr Ameliah Scott - the Flying Vet extraordinaire - and the animals and community of the Australian outback. Ame ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$43.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
Crazy Bastard A memoir of forced adoption by Abraham Maddison
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Derek Pedley abandons his 30-year journalism career on the brink of a breakdown, haunted by addiction, compulsion and obsession, and carrying the heavy baggage of a boy who found his adoption papers at 15. When an anguished letter his mother wrote almost half a century earlier arrives five years after h ...Show more
We of the Never Never by Aeneas Mrs. Gunn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
In 1902 Jeannie Gunn, a Melbourne schoolteacher, went with her new husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. Though she spent little more than a year there, her experiences in the outback and her contact with the local Aborigines impressed her dee ...Show more
The Washerwoman's Dream by Hilarie Lindsay
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The epic true story of the indomitable Winifred Steger and her extraordinary life in 19th century outback Australia. Winifred Steger travelled to Australia with her father in the 1880s when he took up a land grant in north Queensland. The grant proved to be worthless, and faced with poverty, endless bac ...Show more
Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life by Commodore Peter Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Described by the Honourable Kim Beazley AC as a 'beautifully written memoir', this is the rare and extraordinary story of an Australian submariner.From conducting top-secret missions to making Australian submarine history, Commodore Peter Scott depicts what it takes to be a Submariner.Over a decorated 3 ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller, Tracks, the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom. In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea ...Show more
Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline's childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin. With the outbreak of World War II, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education. Returning to her bel ...Show more
Back on Track: How one man and his dogs are changing the lives of rural kids by Bernie Shakeshaft, James Knight
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
As a kid, Bernie Shakeshaft's mischievous and reckless behaviour led him to became known as the wild one of his devout Catholic family. It isn't surprising that his path led him to the Northern Territory, a place where people often go to either lose themselves or find themselves. Bernie, a searcher for ...Show more
Alice to Prague by Tanya Heaslip
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Outback finds adventure & love
In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic.Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching ...Show more