God, the Devil and Me by Alf Taylor
$32.99 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
A Record in Stone : The Study of Australia's Flaked Stone Artefacts by Simon Holdaway and Nicola Stern
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Provides a comprehensive investigation into the different ways in which archaeologists use flaked stone artefacts as a basis for reconstructing the distant human past. This book describes the range of flaked stone artefact forms recovered from Australian archaeological sites.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, During the Years, 1837-39 by George Grey
$72.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania Ser.
Educated at Sandhurst, Sir George Grey (1812-98) became Governor of South Australia when he was not yet thirty. Later he served as Governor of New Zealand and High Commissioner for South Africa, and in the 1870s he enjoyed a period as Premier of New Zealand. Although he liked to portray himself as 'good ...Show more
Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia: Historical and Cultural Relationships by Philip A. Clarke
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia is home to many distinctive species of birds, and Aboriginal peoples have developed close alliances with them over the millennia of their custodianship of this country. Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia: Historical and Cultural Relationships provides a review of the broad physical, his ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People: Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Secrets of Aboriginal Healing by Gary Holz; Robbie Holz (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A guide to the 60,000-year-old healing system of the Aborigines revealed through one man's journey to overcome multiple sclerosis - Written at the request of the Aboriginal people the author stayed with - Explores the use of dreamtime, spirit guides, and telepathy to discover and reprogram the s ...Show more
The Shield and the Spear: The Kimberley Land Council by Joe Fox
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
‘... you need an organisation like the KLC to be your shield and spear, to be able to cut through the bureaucracy to make change. To be able to protect things that are important to Aboriginal people in this region.’ Wayne Bergmann, former CEO of the KLCIn April 1978 leaders from Aboriginal Communities a ...Show more
MY PEOPLES SONGS How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania by Joel Stephen Birnie
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Tarenootairer (c.1806–58) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the historical record of her life remains a scant threa ...Show more
Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories): Narratives of Rock Art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria by Liam M. Brady, John Bradley, Amanda Kearney
$50.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Advances in Australasian Archaeology Ser.
"...ngabaya painted all this, you know when we were kids we would come here and look and sometimes the paintings would change, they were always changing." Annie a-Karrakayny Fully illustrated, Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories) draws on a combined 70+ years of collaborative research involving Yanyuwa Elde ...Show more
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate ...Show more