South Flows the Pearl - Chinese Australian Voices by Mavis Gock Yen; Siaoman Yen (Editor); Richard Horsburgh (Editor); Sophie Loy-Wilson (Introduction by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: China and the West in the Modern World Ser.
South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in thei ...Show more
The Dying World in Northwest Australia by Helmut Petri
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Petri's volume Sterbende welt in nordwest Australien, first appeared in 1954 and presents the complexities and the conundrums that appear within the concepts that underpin Ngarinyin religious philosophy. This translation reveals the depths of Petri's grasp of the anthropology of peoples of the north Kim ...Show more
To Be Heirs Forever by Mary Durack
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
"To Be Heirs Forever is a fascinating and lively account of early Australia from the author of the bestselling Kings in Grass Castles. In 1829 Eliza Shaw exchanged her world of English drawing-rooms and embroidery for the brushwood huts and backbreaking labour of a pioneer settlement in Western Australi ...Show more
Memoirs of a Buccaneer: Dampier's New Voyage Round the World, 1697 by William Dampier
$23.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Dover Value Editions
Mapmaker and navigator Dampier guided important voyages of exploration, and his journals as a buccaneer constitute a historical treasure. This fascinating travel and adventure book recounts pirate life while offering a firsthand look at the 17th-century botany and anthropology of Central and South Ameri ...Show more
Seeing Saltwater Country by Sally Mayman
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
Seeing Saltwater Country is an art collaboration between photographer Sally Mayman, painter Dale Kentwell and the people of the Dampier Peninsula in Australia's north-west. Sally and Dale are based in Sydney and were invited to the Dampier Peninsula by Bardi Nyul Nyul man Albert Wiggan. There they met m ...Show more