Living in Hope: The Complete Memoirs of Frank Byrne by Frank Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Frank Byrne is a hero who worked for over ten years to have this book written, to set the record straight about the denial of truth in history telling in this country.’ — Alexis Wright‘This is a very strong story of survival. A tragic reminder of the harshness and unfairness of the mission era but also ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing & Psychiatry by Wiremu NiaNia; Allister Bush; David Epston
$65.00 AUD
$70.99 (8% off)
Category: History | Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives Ser.
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
Every Mother's Son Is Guilty : Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905 by Chris Owen; Patrick Dodson (Preface by)
$53.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
"This is a marvellous contribution by Chris Owen to the understanding of the role the Western Australian police force played in the colonial expansion into the Kimberley district of Western Australia."--Senator Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Elder ***Chris Owen provides a compelling account of policing in the K ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more
A Voyage of No Importance
$22.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the true story of an epic 350 km voyage along the West Kimberley coast made by two intrepid seafarers in their 3.5 metre wooden dinghy in late 1920
Finding Marjorie King: A daughter's journey to discover her mother's identity by Jennifer Durrant, Cheryl Rogers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Who was Marjorie King? Her daughter, Jennifer, needed to know. Why did her beautiful, funny, shy mother never speak about her past? Where was her Mum’s family? They were Jennifer’s family, too. A framed portrait revealed a stunning young Asian woman. But there were no images of Marjorie as a child. An ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 by Richard Broome
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A powerful history of black and white encounters in Australia since colonization. This is a fully updated edition (fourth edition).
Aboriginal Men of High Degree by A. P. Elkin
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The first book to reveal the secret and sacred practices of Aboriginal shamans, Aboriginal Men of High Degree presents an extraordinary series of rites by which the young Aboriginal male begins the degrees of shamanic initiation--each marked by its own portion of esoteric knowledge. One of Australia's m ...Show more