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Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen by Pat Lowe
$17.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: From 5 To 99
Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen is a fantasy about Native Title, in which Jimmy, a traditional owner of land in the Great Sandy Desert, challenges the Queen to visit his camp and prove to him that she is the rightful owner of this so-called 'vacant Crown land'. Her Majesty accepts the invitation, and soon ...Show more
Life in the Pindan - An Introduction to the Nature of the West Kimberley by Pat Lowe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
The Kimberley holds part of Northern Australia's vast landscape of savanna, the most extensive, most intact in the world. With 70% of the world's tropical savanna under crops or concrete, time is running out to save what's left. The Pindan, a savanna landscape of shrubland and woodland, is a treasure-ho ...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
The Boab Tree by Pat Lowe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
That 'colossus of the bush', the boab tree, has long intrigued visitors to the Kimberley. Where did it come from? How long does it live? With its strong branches and gnarled trunk, the boab is a minor ecosystem, providing shade and shelter for other lives. Native bees and bagmoths, lizards and nesting b ...Show more
The Girl With No Name by Pat Lowe
$17.99 AUD
Category: Teenage
Set in the dramatic beauty of the Kimberley region, this is the poignant story of Matthew and his unusual friendship with an Aboriginal girl.
The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert by Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe
$18.99 AUD
Category: Children
Age range 8 to 13Beneath the hot, blue sky, Mana is joined by her brothers, sisters and cousins, as well as her many mothers and her favourite dogs. With wonderful wit, Mana recounts hunting, gathering, kinship, obligations and the never-ending search for water, all told through the eyes of a young girl ...Show more
Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Child by Pat Lowe, Jimmy Pike
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Yinti Ser.
Age range 9 - 12 The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yinti's development from a young bushie to a competent station worker and adult. Yinti is a traditional Walmajarri Aboriginal boy growing up Great Sandy Desert in the remote North West of ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Cowboy (Yinti #3) by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Yinti Ser.
Age range 9 - 12 Gradually, Yinti and Wara grew accustomed to station life. They no longer ran and hid when they saw a motorcar coming along the road towards them. The third book in the Yinti series of three books. Desert Cowboy is the story of Yinti's return to the cattle station and of his life as a ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Dog (Yinti #2) by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Yinti
Age range 9 - 12 The second book in the Yinti series. Yinti and the hunting dingo, Spinifex, walk out of the desert together and Yinti sees a white man for the first time: `Look at that kartiya,' whispered Yinti, giggling. `You can see the blood through his skin!' When the dingo, Spinifex, is taken from ...Show more
You Call it Desert - We Used to Live There. by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This rare glimpse of life in the Great Sandy Desert exploresthe resourcefulness and ingenuity of the Walmajarri people, Australia s desert dwellers. A vibrant blend of personal recollection, history, Aboriginal art, and Australian indigenous studies, this survey will shed light on the lives of a scarcel ...Show more
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