Outback by Scott Bridle
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Helicopter pilot and photographer Scott Bridle offers a unique view of the vast cattle stations and raw natural beauty of outback Australia. Traversing Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia, his aerial shots - often captured one-handed while flying his chopper - reveal anew the vast exp ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly u ...Show more
1956: The Year Australia Welcomed the World by Nick Richardson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An engrossing account of a pivotal year in Australia's history.This book debunks one of the hardiest cliches in Australian history- that the 1950s was a dull decade, when the nation seemed only interested in a quiet life, a cup of tea, and a weekend drive. The truth is that, by the time the '60s came ar ...Show more
The Pacific: in the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill (PB) by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of peop ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney Rn by Suzanne Rickard; Peter Cochrane (Foreword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1 ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Truth of the Palace Letters, The: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 by Paul Kelly; Troy Bramston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous tenure as Governor-General of Australia. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of ...Show more
Warrior A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier by Libby Connors
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our warriors were Anzacs. Not all our wars were just.' - John Birmingham, author and columnist In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of deadly ...Show more
From the Trenches: The Best ANZAC Writing of World War I by Mark Dapin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the centenary of World War One, here are the Anzacs in their own words. From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the fighting. Drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters, as well as poetry, ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England ...Show more