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The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to
"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." - Wall Street Journal Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes...
South American Folk Pottery
$50.00 AUD
Author: Gertrude LittoBinding: PaperbackPublished: Watson-Guptill Publications., 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Bumping and sun-fading to spine and...
Aboriginal Art And Spirituality (SIGNED)
$120.00 AUD
Author: Rosemary Crumlin; Anthony KnightBinding: HardbackPublished: Dove for HarperCollins Sydney, 1991Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis compelling volume illuminates the profound connection between artistic expression and spiritual belief...
Spinifex Walkabout: Hitch-Hiking In Remote North Australia
$20.00 AUD
Author: Coralie And Leslie ReesBinding: HardbackPublished: Australasian Publishing Company in association with George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1953Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages:...
The Tribals
$70.00 AUD
Author: Martin H. BriceBinding: HardbackPublished: Ian Allan., 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor fading to spine, tanned edges...
Nunaga: Ten Years Of Eskimo Life
$45.00 AUD
Author: Duncan PrydeBinding: HardbackPublished: MacGibbon & Kee, 1971Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has general wear and tear and is price clipped, previous owner name...
The First Sunrise: Australian Aboriginal Myths
$20.00 AUD
Author: Ainslie Roberts And Charles P. MountfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby Limited, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling volume chronicles the rich tapestry of Australian Aboriginal myths,...
The Dawn Of Time: Australian Aboriginal Myths In Paintings By Ainslie Roberts With Text By Charles P. Mountford
$20.00 AUD
Author: Ainslie Roberts, Charles P. MountfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby Limited, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has some general wear, previous owner name inside, light foxing...
Aboriginal Art Of The Western Desert
$70.00 AUD
Author: Geoff BardonBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby Adelaide, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket spine tanned and has some minor wear tear, price clipped inside...
The Warramunga Story
$65.00 AUD
Author: HMAS Warramunga Veterans Association of AustraliaBinding: PaperbackPublished: HMAS Warramunga Veterans Association of Australia., 2010Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight chip to spine, minor bumps to...
Gardens Of War: Life And Death In The New Guinea Stone Age
$30.00 AUD
Author: Robert Gardner And Karl G. HeiderBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch London, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsGardens Of War: Life And Death In The New Guinea Stone Age...
People Of The Dreamtime
$20.00 AUD
Author: Alan Marshall; illustrated by Lesbia ThorpeBinding: HardbackPublished: F. W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd, Melbourne, 1952Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks:...
The Making Of Mankind
$15.00 AUD
Author: Richard E. LeakeyBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsRichard E. Leakey's The Making Of Mankind chronicles the compelling saga of human...
Dreamtime Heritage: Australian Aboriginal Myths In Paintings
$25.00 AUD
Author: Melva Jean RobertsBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanning and foxing to DJ and pages. Dreamtime Heritage: Australian Aboriginal Myths In...
Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years Of Aboriginal History
$30.00 AUD
Author: Jennifer IsaacsBinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight chip and minor tears to DJ. Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years...
Rape Of The Fly: Explorations In New Guinea
$30.00 AUD
Author: John GoodeBinding: HardbackPublished: Thomas Nelson., 1977Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles an in-depth exploration...
Rose Tinted 60s: For the Swell, Smooth and Dreamy
Love in the Ancient World
In this text, film maker Christopher Miles and historian John Julius Norwich tour the Mediterranean Basin, looking at how ancient civilizations regarded sex and sexuality. They take in European cave...
Journey to the Vanished City: Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel
Lecturing on Jewish history at the University of Witwatersrand, the author met a group of men who claimed to be descendants of the Jewish Lemba tribe from the lost city...
The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History
George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay , was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings...
The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging
The Gift of Generations is a comparative study of aging and the social contract in Japan and the United States. By using original, systematically comparable data collected in these countries,...
How to Be Human: The Manual
A practical and inspiring new book by the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled It took us 4 billion years to evolve to...
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live-and How Their Wealth Harms Us
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. Have...
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara
Blue-veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready-made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly capture a region that crosses...
Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies. It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and...
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture. Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from...
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
The hard work required to make god real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and...
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution,
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building...
Daughters of the Dreaming
Finalist for the 1993 J.I. Staley Prize 'The energy, intelligence and sheer talent deployed in this work are formidable. It demands to be read by those who would question the...
Countries Of The World (I-II & V-VI)
$250.00 AUD
Author: Robert Brown, M.A.Binding: HardbackPublished: CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & CO., 1876Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Brown boards...
Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry Into The Separation Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families
$40.00 AUD
Author: Ronald WilsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slight wear on cover with bruised...
Dreamtime Heritage: Australian Aboriginal Myths
$20.00 AUD
Author: Ainslie Roberts And Melva Jean RobertsBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, 1975Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light moisture damage on DJ. Clean boards. Light foxing on...
Australian Aboriginal Art: The Art Of The Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory
$35.00 AUD
Author: Robert EdwardsBinding: HardbackPublished: A.I.A.S. Canberra, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Orange board in good condition. Clean and bright copy. Australian Aboriginal Art: The Art Of...
Bindibu Country
$65.00 AUD
Author: Donald ThomsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some tears to DJ, minor tanning and yellowing to pages. Slight fading to DJ.Donald Thomson's Bindibu...
A Mysterious People: An Introduction To Gypsies
$25.00 AUD
Author: Charles DuffBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1965Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Front end page missing. Library stamps.A compelling work of non-fiction, A Mysterious People: An Introduction To...
The Mind Of Primitive Man
$50.00 AUD
Author: Franz BoasBinding: HardbackPublished: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards. Frayed and dull spine. Bumping...
Spirit In Land: Bark Paintings From Arnhem Land
$45.00 AUD
Author: Judith RyanBinding: PaperbackPublished: National Gallery of Victoria, 1990Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Chips to cover and...
Death & The Regeneration Of Life
$35.00 AUD
Author: Maurice Bloch; Jonathan ParryBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cloth in good condition. DJ repaired with tape.Death & The Regeneration Of...
Crafts From North American Indian Arts: Techniques, Designs, And Contemporary Applications
$35.00 AUD
Author: Mary Lou StriblingBinding: PaperbackPublished: Crown Publishers., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor peeling to corners of cover. This comprehensive volume presents a detailed...
The Human Animal
$40.00 AUD
Author: Hans HassBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union BCE., 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsTo view man objectively,Hans Hass travelled to all corners of the earth with his...
Stone Age Island: Seven Years In New Guinea
$15.00 AUD
Author: Maslyn WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, London, 1964Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings'Stone Age Island: Seven Years In New Guinea' chronicles an extraordinary period...
A Straight-Out Man: F. W. Albrecht And Central Australian Aborigines
$30.00 AUD
Author: Barbara HensonBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press Melbourne, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded boards. Slight moisture damage on DJ. Clean text....
Old Indian Trails
This pioneering study in Native American ethnology and personal odyssey into one of the last American frontiers was first published in 1923 and is now a hard-to-find collector's item. Containing...
Intruders in the Bush
This treatise challenges the bushman legend and presents evidence that discontented white Australian intellectuals of the 1890s romanticized the bushman and his notions of companionship. The text has been revised...
Adam In Ochre: Inside Aboriginal Australia
$15.00 AUD
Author: Colin SimpsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1951Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsAdam In Ochre by Colin Simpson chronicles a fascinating...
Intimate Behaviour
$25.00 AUD
Author: Desmond MorrisBinding: HardbackPublished: London; Jonathan Cape, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis seminal work in ethology uncovers the intricate world of human non-verbal communication. It meticulously details...
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
$12.00 AUD
Once in a Generation a book such as African Exodus emerges to transform the way we see ourselves. This landmark book, which argues that our genes betray the secret of...