True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
" ... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a greart family and of a series of great actions. The Bulletin When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a profoun ...Show more
Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja by Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
$44.99 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
Kimberley Bush Food: Edible Plants of the Kimberley Region of Western Australia by Madison King, John Horsfall
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
In an effort to preserve the traditional knowledge of bush food, authors Madison King and nurse educator, John Horsfall, have documented over 350 species of plants and fungi that were regularly gathered by the Indigenous peoples of the Kimberley region before and after colonisation.Kimberley Bush Food i ...Show more
Our Friends the Termites by PAT LOWE
$25.99 AUD
Category: General
Take a journey into the micro-world of one of the most maligned creatures on the planet and discover the real story of termites. Find out the environmental benefits of termites and how for some they are a source of food. After years of keen observation in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, Pat Lowe s ...Show more
He Rode Alone by Joan Brockman
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
George Julius Brockman (2 January 1850 – 29 August 1912) was a prominent explorer and pastoralist in the Gascoyne and Kimberley regions of Western Australia. Born in 1850 at Guildford, George was the seventh son of Robert Brockman and brother of Charles Samuel Brockman.Brockman Snr was a settler in ...Show more
The Wreckers' Revenge (Smugglers Cove #2) by Norman Jorgensen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teenage | Series: Red Read Adventures Ser. | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Red Read doesn't set out to find trouble, but trouble sure has a way of finding him. Expelled from school, he is whisked off by Captain Black Bowen, one of the most infamous smugglers ever to ply the coast of northern Australia in the early years of the twentieth century. Together they battle demon stor ...Show more
Johnny James - And Other Verses by Dave Morrell
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Since moving to a remote cattle station in Western Australia's far north-west as a young child, the red dirt of the Kimberley has coloured Dave Morrell's blood and filled his life with adventure. This collection of his bush poetry and memoirs portrays a raw and untold history of his home.Often with humo ...Show more
Bush Food: Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine by Jennifer Isaacs
$54.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal People have lived, and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of their native plants and a deep understanding of the value of many animal products. Bush Food is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the ki ...Show more
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Picked as one of Stylist magazine's 'Fiction Books You Can't Miss in 2022' and longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award 2022 'Tense and vividly atmospheric, with a determined, independent heroine intent on the truth . . . beautifully written, unflinching and brimming with adventure' - Jennifer Saint, b ...Show more
A Camelman on the CanningDiary of Claude Heppingstone : Cameleer, Canning Stock Route Well Construction Party, 1908-1910 by Claude Heppingstone
$31.00 AUD
Category: History
This a comprehensive history of the construction of the Canning Stock Route compiled from the diary of Claude Heppingstone, a cameleer. This is the only known daily report of events during the construction of the stock route.