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Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
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 ...Show more
Keeping The Wanjinas Fresh
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Keeping the Wanjinas Fresh: Sam Woolagoodja and the Enduring Power of Lalai is the story of the people of the Wanjinas and their unbroken living cosmology of Lalai- the Dreaming- manifested most memorably in the dazzling giant Wanjina designed by Donny Woolagoodja for the opening ceremony of the Sydney ...Show more
Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story by Banjo Woorunmurra; Howard Pedersen
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
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Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...Show more
OUT OF THE DESERT by BULUGARDIE HONEY
$39.99 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
Journey Into Dreamtime by Munya Andrews
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
This book invites you to to step into the magical world of Aboriginal Dreamtime and to share in the world's oldest living culture - its ancient knowledge and spiritual wisdom. Inside are Dreamtime concepts that everyone can understand. Find out why the Rainbow Snake is called by that name and why it is ...Show more
God, the Devil and Me by Alf Taylor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At once darkly humorous and achingly tragic, God, The Devil and Me tells of the life and desperation of the young children forced ...Show more
Last Truck Out by LOCKYER Betty
$21.99 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
Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja by Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Full of extraordinary images of the landscape, ...Show more
Black and White and In between Arthur Dimer and the Nullabor
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Last of the Nomads by W. J. Peasley
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Peasley's description of the events ... is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.' --Don Grant, Australian Book Review 'The intriguing story of [the rescue of an elderly couple believed to be the last Australian nomads] and how they survived alone for the previous 30 y ...Show more