Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations by Brian Butler, John Bond
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was taken.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century. Sorr ...Show more
Convict-era Port Arthur : Misery of the Deepest Dye by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthurfocuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a signif ...Show more
Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
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Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of colonisation by Claire G. Coleman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts.' In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. ...Show more
Shed Heaven by Anna Groves
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The National Trust looks after many of Britain's most important and beloved buildings - its sheds. They lurk in the shadow of grand country houses; they brave the elements on the tops of cliffs; they have inspired famous writers and housed everything from beehives to birdwatchers.These beautiful, inspir ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans ...Show more
Life at the Edge: Why Australians Love the Water by Turner Jo
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Water features prominently in the collective memory and national identity of Australia. From long summers spent building sandcastles and learning to swim, to the sheer immensity and wild beauty of cliffs and dark oceans, our status as an island nation is inescapable. Collaborating with photographers fr ...Show more
Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes by Steve Morton
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent – the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how Australian desert ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's lost generation by Ross McMullin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing number of losses -- on the sheer qua ...Show more
Lessons From History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges by Edited by: Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In Lessons from History leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present.Does history repeat itself in meaningful ways, or is each problem unique? Does a knowledge of Australian histor ...Show more
Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more