At Home in Australia by Peter Conrad
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Peter Conrad’s special gift is that of the great writer - to make the particular of intense personal concern to each of us. Here he gives his own deeply felt account of a nation’s history and his brilliant word-pictures are inspired by over 200 photographs from the collections of the National Gallery of ...Show more
Woolsheds: A Visual Journey of the Australian Woolshed by Andrew Chapman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Australian woolshed is quintessential Australian architecture, steeped in our history and folklore. Blown by ferocious seasonal winds, bleached bare by hot summer sun, survivors of flood, pests and fire, these buildings are synonymous with the harshness of the surrounding landscape and a testament t ...Show more
The Story of the Melbourne Cup : Australia's Greatest Race by Stephen Howell
$100.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Story of the Melbourne Cup - Australia's Greatest Race is a beautiful coffee-table book produced after three years of planning, research and writing by racing's best contributors.This commemorative publication covers the key events of the Melbourne Cup - from its conception as an Australia-only race ...Show more
Streets of Perth Past and Present by Edmund Robless
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
There was a time when hip hop was created by the poor, for the poor. It was played out on the streets of the Bronx in New York in the early 1970s, to release frustration at poverty and oppression. Like any artform, hip hop has been 'blinged' - pushed through the marketing machine past the point of recog ...Show more
Sydney Harbour Bridge H/C: From Eternity To Now by Dave Tozer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Sydney Harbour Bridge - Celebrations from Eternity to Now is a pictorial and historical collection of the celebratory events which have been enjoyed on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, from the first time fireworks were fired from it, in 1986 for the 75th Anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy, spanning acr ...Show more
50 Years Photographing Australia by Steve Parish
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Steve Parish, OAM, has been photographing Australia for more than 50 years. He started his remarkable career photographing marine life in Aus tralia's coastal waters. In the years since, he has spent much of his li fe travelling Australia, capturing the land, its wildlife and its people in spectacular i ...Show more
Banjo Patterson: Great Australian Poet by A. B. Patterson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A.B. Paterson loved the bush and wrote as bush folk would. It is this that made his poetry popular with them as well as city dwellers. His works still echo with the crack of whip and thunder of hoof. His characters are real and live on the page, belonging to the true tradition. The Banjo and his words w ...Show more
The River by Brian Simmonds
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Award-winning artist Brian Simmonds brings Australia's waterways to life with his oils and mixed media colour paintings and sketches. Over ninety beautiful illustrations accompany uniquely local poetry and prose from well-known writers such as John Kinsella, T A G Hungerford and Elizabeth Jolley. The pe ...Show more
Murray River: One River, Many Lands by S Strudwick
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The illustrated story of Australia's greatest river, that captures all the romance, history and colour of the Murray paddle steamers, bushrangers, homesteads, Aboriginal culture, the mallee, 36 different river towns, megafauna, the ancient ocean, Murray-Darling Basin, icons of the Murray, Discover Murr ...Show more
Living in History: Tasmania's Historic Homes, the People Who Built Them, and Those Who Live in Them Now by Alice Bennett
$65.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Tasmania's first European settlers were a diverse and eclectic lot - men and women from all walks of life who ended up cast together in a far-flung colony at the end of the world, where adversity was commonplace but opportunity abounded. From former convicts to the highly privileged, they forged their o ...Show more
I've Been There (and Back Again) by Joy McKean
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The perfect gift book for Slim Dusty's legions of fans, whose numbers are still strong even years after his death. Joy McKean wrote many of her husband Slim Dusty's most well-loved songs, such as Lights on the Hill and When the Rain Tumbles Down in July . She is a natural writer and now she turns her ta ...Show more