Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845 by Philip Jones
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
George French Angas (1822–1886) was one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding colonial artists. As a young man in the 1840s he journeyed to Australia and New Zealand, where he excelled at capturing the minute detail of plants and people, objects and landscapes. The bush was his studio — he captured th ...Show more
The Petticoat Parade: Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels by Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The Petticoat Parade, a true crime biography and social history of Josie de Bray's life is the latest book from award-winning author, Leigh Straw.Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldi ...Show more
Beating About the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Len Beadell's classic account of the building of the famous Gunbarrel Highway across Central Australia in which he recounts in his own colourful style the outstanding events of its construction.
Still in the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Laden with trig poles, theodolites - and porridge - Beadell and his team built roads, laid out town sites and undertook an enormous survey programme in order to prepare a test launching area in one of the most isolated parts of the world. The problems ranged from taking astrofixes in a cloudy sky and be ...Show more
Outback Highways by Beadell Len
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Gunbarrel Highway story, and many more ..Len Beadell was often called the last of the true Australian explorers. As a surveyor and road builder he worked all over the outback - from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert. Drawn from his best selling books, these stories sparkle with humour and paint a fas ...Show more
Flynn of the Inland and the Royal Flying Doctor Service by Ion Idriess
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary story of a classic Australian pioneer - told by Australia's 'Boswell of the Bush', Ion Idriess. Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush Hospitals. His magnificent vision, formed as he travelled on ...Show more
A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
"A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
FRONTIER RACE NATION - HENRY REYNOLDS AN by ATTWOOD BAIN & GRIFFITHS TOM [EDS]
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
To the Bar Bonded : A History of Early Marble Bar by Kathleen Mallett
$89.99 AUD
Category: History
Social history of Marble Bar, in the Pilbara region, published in the town's centennial year. The author spent most of her life in the area and recorded her personal memories and family history. Includes an index, and a chronology of events at Marble Bar, starting with the first 'reef ' gold claim in 18 ...Show more
The Last Wild West - The Saga of Northern Territory Cattle Stations, by Neil H. Atkinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Publishers by New Holland Publishers
Bloody Bastard Beautiful by Mocco Wollert
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The frank and hilarious account of an immigrant girl who follows her German lover to Darwin.Adventurous, love-able and laughable, Mocco captures the heat and vibrance of Darwin and its larrikins, in a decade where the Territory makes its own rules.