The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills: Forgotten Narratives by Ian D. Clark
$58.99 AUD
Category: History
The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860-61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to whi ...Show more
Gurindji Journey: A Japanese Historian in the Outback by Minoru Hokari
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, a Japanese scholar emerged with a new world view. Gurindji Journey tells of his experience living with the Gurindji people of Daguragu and Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory, absorbing their way of ...Show more
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship (HB) by Joan Beaumont (Editor); Allison Cadzow (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist ...Show more
I, the Aboriginal: The Gripping Story of Waipuldanya, and His Journey to Become a Citizen of Both the Aboriginal and Whitefella Worlds by Douglas Lockwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The autobiography, as told to Douglas Lockwood, of Waipuldanya, a full blood Aboriginal of the Alawa tribe at Roper River in Australia's Northern Territory. In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land and to provide for his family with the aid only of his sp ...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
A Secret Country by John Pilger
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
"EXPATRIATE JOURNALIST and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A SECRET COUNTRY, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama."
Listen Deeply: Let Theses Stories in by Kathleen Wallace
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Features traditional Eastern Arrernte stories in English and Eastern Arrernte. Includes audio CD with seven traditional stories told by author Kathleen Kemarre Wallace in Eastern Arrernte.
Pathfinders by Michael Bennett
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history.From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover's wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles. A rare exception is the redoubtable tracker. With skills passed down over millennia, trackers could ...Show more
A Terribly Wild Man by Christine Halse (Executive Member, Aboriginal Studies Association and the Pacific Circle Consortium Halse, and Professor, University of Western Sydney, Australia)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Race, sex, religion, frailty, noble intentions and grand failures - such are the ingredients in the pioneering life of Rev. Ernest Gribble. This is the story of that \\
In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier by Amanda Nettelbeck
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his patrols, he was eventually tried in 1891 for the murder of two Aboriginal men, and was posted to an even more remote frontier in the Top End. During his time in ...Show more