The Great Aussie Road Trip - New Back Roads book from the host of the popular ABC TV series: 20 spectacular trips to take around our special land by Heather Ewart
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Heather's favourite road trips around Australia, revealing towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. There's no better way to see this vast country of ours than by hitting roads along the coastline, or heading inland ...Show more
Back Roads by Heather Ewart; Karen Michelmore (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities - and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defi ...Show more
The Ballad of Abdul Wade: The Incredible True Story of Australia's unsung Pioneering Heroes - The Afghan Camelleers by Ryan Butta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero. Horses couldn t access many remote settlements, especially those stricken by flood or drought, and camel trains rode to the rescue time and time again. But with success came fierce opposition fuel ...Show more
Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Eur ...Show more
Images of an Australian Enlightenment - The Story of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie's Treatment of the Convicts As a History Tale for Today by Austin Lovegrove
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia
This is the story of two Scots: Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British colony of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, and his wife, Elizabeth Macquarie, both of whom pioneered a policy of rehabilitation and renewal as part of their treatment of empancipists. Written as an intimate account of two crusa ...Show more
Datsun Angel: A true-story adventure inside the savage heart of 1980s Australia by Anna Broinowski
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Datson Angel is a turbo-charged adventure into the dark heart of 1980s Australia: a place completely alien, yet frighteningly similar, to today. EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK HAPPENED . . . At seventeen, aching to begin her adult life, Anna Broinowski is precocious, naïve and in her first year of Arts/Law at ...Show more
Too Young To Hold A Gun by Peter Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
New England Bushranger History - If you ask most Australians, ‘what do you know about the bushranging era of Australian history?’, many would mention Ned Kelly and a few might also name Ben Hall. But as history shows, there are many other men who took to a life of crime back when our nation was made up ...Show more
Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession: The Epic Race to Connect Australia to the World by David Dufty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong. It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles. The year was 1870, and ...Show more
The Mallee: A Journey Through North-West Victoria (HB) by Adam McNicol (Text by, Photographer); Erin Jonasson (Photographer); Phil Campbell (Designed by, Photographer); Andrew Chapman (Photographer); Noel Butcher (Photographer); Melanie Dove (Photographer); Heather Ewart (Foreword by); Jaime Murcia (Photographer)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Between 1880 and 1930, a series of schemes brought thousands of settlers to Victoria’s Mallee region. At the same time, a number of railway lines were constructed through the area, with towns constructed approximately every 10 miles. Now, almost a century after the settlement schemes ended and the depop ...Show more
Galah: Stories of life outside the city by Annabelle Hickson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australia
It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the fa ...Show more
The Australian Women's Weekly: Celebrating 90 Years of an Australian Icon by The Australian Women's Weekly
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australia
On the morning of June 10, 1933, newspaper sellers were struggling to keep up with demand as a new periodical flew off the shelves. Two large headlines clamoured for attention on the cover- "Equal Social Rights for Sexes!" cried one, while the second, "What Smart Sydney Women Are Wearing," was accompani ...Show more