Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
26.80 AUD
27.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
Banjo's Best Loved Poems: Chosen by His Grand-daughters by Paterson Banjo
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
The poems in this collection were chosen by Paterson's granddaughters - those that have proved most popular as well as their own particular favourites.Time spent reading ths book will be time spent with old, familiar friends. There is a warmth, richness and humour about the poems of Banjo Paterson that ...Show more
Power - Platon by Platon & David Remick
4.99 AUD
39.99 (87% off)
Category: Warehouse Specials
From one of the world's most exciting new photographers and the editor of world-renowned New Yorker magazine, Power is an extraordinary portrait of political power at the highest level. Especially commissioned by the New Yorker magazine, Platon has photographed over 100 members of the United Nations. Pr ...Show more
Singing the Coast by Tony Perkins
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is sung. These songs can be for all of us, where Aboriginal stories are overwritten with the grids of roads and towns. One coastal group's experience in mainta ...Show more
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia - 8th Edition by Nicolas Day, Ken Simpson
37.99 AUD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Australiana | Reading Level: very good
Since it was first published in 1984, Simpson & Day's Field Guide to the Birds of Australiahas been one of the most - if not themost - respected bird guide in the country. It has sold over 500 000 copies. The guide contains 132 superb full-colour plates showing all Australian bird species; key point ...Show more
Aboriginal Place Names by Reed A W
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Aboriginal library
A comprehensive collection of Aboriginal names from all over Australia, and their derivations. Thousands of place names are listed, each followed by the state it is found in and its meaning. There is also a dictionary that gives the Aboriginal translations for common English words.
Aboriginal Stories of Australia by Reed A W
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana | Series: Aboriginal Library Ser.
A collection of traditional Aboriginal tales, myths and legends. Learn how Yhi the sun goddess introduced life to the world, why the emu cannot fly and how the kangaroo got its tail. This new edition includes a glossary, giving the English translation for many Aboriginal words used in the text.
Banjo Paterson's Poems of the Bush by Paterson Banjo
25.99 AUD
26.99 (3% off)
Category: Australiana
The poetry selected for this collection reveals Paterson's love and appreciation for the Australian bush and its people. It contains not only widely published and quoted poems such as 'On Kiley's Run' and 'Clancy of The Overflow', but also lesser known poems such as 'The Uplift' and 'The Wind's Message' ...Show more
Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788 by Bruce Elder
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
Blood on the Wattle draws together most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people which has been recorded in books and journals.Blood on the Wattle draws together, in a single volume, most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people which has been recorded in books and ...Show more
The Last Paradise by Tom Cole
23.95 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Tom Cole hunted crocodiles and buffalo, was a horse-breaker, brumby runner and drover, owned and managed cattle stations and a coffee plantation. The Last Paradise is the sequel to Tom Cole's bestselling autobiography Hell West and Crooked and recounts his story of thirty years in New Guinea amongst "cr ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Birds of by Jim (Australian Museum) Flegg
47.50 AUD
49.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana | Series: Photographic Field Guide Ser.
This is a bird-identification guide with a difference. Instead of using colour plates of paintings to identify the species, it features photographs, covering all 840 bird species that live or visit the Australian continent. Following a brief introduction about bird biology, habitats and bird families, t ...Show more