Great Pioneer Women of the Outback by Susanna de Vries
$37.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
In the 1800s, the first white farmers and graziers making their homes in the outback were joined by their wives, many of whom had no idea what lay in store. Expecting a tropical paradise, these female pioneers encountered instead conditions which would test, and often defeat them; relentless heat and du ...Show more
You Can Always Find Someone to Have a Beer WithThe Phil O'Brien Collection by Phil O'Brien
$26.99 AUD
Category: General
A collection of the best yarns from Phil 'Brien's previous bestselling books ''101 Adventures that got me absolutely nowhere'' volume 1 and 2 , and ''The Minor successes of a Bloke that never had a real lot of luck'' A ''must have'' collection , one of the all time great books of raw Australiana. Very c ...Show more
Australian Backyard Astronomy by Ragbir Bhathal; Jenny Bhathal
$24.95 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Written by award-winning writer and astrophysicist Dr Ragbir Bhathal and his daughter Jenny Bhathal, this book reveals Australia's Aboriginal and European night-sky heritage to children from their own backyards, recommended for ages 10-14 years. Discover the stories of the heavens and our understanding ...Show more
Australian Midwives by Paula Heelan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Mira Ser.
Like Beth McCrae's bestselling Outback Midwife, these real-life stories come from Australian midwives working in the outback, where they share their experiences of that most commonplace but miraculous event, the birth of a child. Sweet, funny and sometimes sad, these stories share what it is to be an A ...Show more
Shed by Simon Griffiths
$36.95 AUD
Category: General
The Shed: A place of retreat, where we can forget the pressures of everyday life, work on a treasured project, store all those keepsakes we can't bear to throw away, or spend time with friends or with ourselves in silent meditation.Photographer Simon Griffiths has an eye for the beauty of ordinary thing ...Show more
Outback by Scott Bridle
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
Helicopter pilot and photographer Scott Bridle offers a unique view of the vast cattle stations and raw natural beauty of outback Australia. Traversing Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia, his aerial shots - often captured one-handed while flying his chopper - reveal anew the vast exp ...Show more
Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang by H. G. Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour | Reading Level: very good
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we're connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc ('plonk') and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another ...Show more
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination to work out how to make things better.'Australia's unprecedented run of economic growth has failed to deliver a more stable or harmoni ...Show more
Australian Backyard Naturalist by Peter Macinnis
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
This book is written by Peter Macinnis, the recipient of the Eve Pownall award in the 2010 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards for the sister publication, Australian Backyard Explorer. In Australian Backyard Naturalist, Peter enthusiastically explores the animals that inhabit the places in which ...Show more
A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar's words have a knack for swelling the metaphorical chest of many Austr ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more