Australasian History

Radiating outwards from the chic city are awe-inspiring scenic wonders the vast, windswept vistas of the Great Ocean Road with the Twelve Apostles to the west and the penguin paradise...

This is an ambitious and resounding attempt to document - through photographs and interviews - expatriate Australian artistic talent across a wide international spectrum. The publication of 'Love It and...

Aimed at nurses and health professionals training to care for Australia's growing aged population. This book does not attempt to proceed from a pathological interpretation of aging but rather views...

The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time Miles Franklin's debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn - closely...

This beautifully photographed book enables the reader to step back in time, to a world when tall ships were the means by which continents were discovered, trade routes were opened...

This is the eighth volume of the popular Green Guide series initiating readers into the world of natures's deadly armoury. Discover poisonous fangs, venomous spurs, disease-laden body piercing, slicing jaws,...

WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD 'Deftly traversing time, culture and continent to weave a tale of both home and unbelonging, this...

For decades schoolchildren have made the pilgrimage to the Museum of Victoria to see the final resting place of our greatest racing horse ever. No wonder Phar Lap holds a...

Duncan's journey to become one of the world's leading panoramic photographers has been by turn emotional, chaotic, dramatic, inspirational and physically gruelling. In this book, he tells many of the...

Melbourne Cocktails is an elegant collection of over 100 recipes inspired by the land down under. Discover Melbourne's eclectic nightlife, hidden spaces, dynamic food and wine scene, and more with...

Well-known journalist, Mark Day, embarked on a journey across Australia, inviting some of his friends (such as Tom Keneally and Ken Done) to join him on his quest to find...

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images...

Travel has always been central to the experience of living in Australia and to giving that life meaning. For Aboriginal Australians, identity was bound up in the travelling of the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 The powerful, untold story of two of the three members of iconic Australian band Silverchair. It all began in...

Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the...

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing...

Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for,...

Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its ways of life. 'Marvellous Melbourne' symbolises the achievements of Australian urbanisation...

*** REDUCED TO $49.99 WHILST STOCKS LAST *** 'Nomad Two Worlds' traces the remarkable creative journey of internationally renowned Australian photographer Russell James through his fine art project, 'Nomad Two...

When Gough Whitlam died on 21 October 2014, his legacy to the Australian people was a nation transformed. With all royalties going to the Whitlam Institute, this tribute traces his...

Sir Frank Packer, to put it mildly, was a most controversial figure in the sporting, newspaper, political and financial worlds. Sir Frank is regarded as a legendary Australian business and...

The relationship between Australia and the royal family is complex and fascinating. We are drawn to the pure magic of palaces, celebrity romance and high-fashion, but it goes deeper. This...

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the work of Lloyd Wright, Gropius and MiesVan Der Rohe strongly influenced a generation of young Australian architects, who adopted modernist principles in their...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 The powerful, untold story of two of the three members of iconic Australian band Silverchair. It all began in...

Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty...

Marley and Moses lived in a place where the heat crept up and smothered the days in stifling stillness. And it stayed and stayed. A captivating story of a searing...

This is a personal account of Conrad's return to his Tasmanian homeland after 20 years. He tells of his upbringing there and describes the island's rivers, mountains and rain forests....

A comprehensive biography of this tall, quiet figure. Ayres not only illuminates Mawson's many achievements but also enables us to know and understand him as a human being. The icon...

This is a full and revealing account of the perilous and adventurous course of the Northern Territory; a comprehensive account of its history which debunks the myths and makes human...

Why do we have such a profound attachment to the bush? Perhaps it is because the harsh, mysterious and utterly foreign outback provided the unforgiving crucible that created distinctly Australian...

'Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand' is the first comprehensive survey of all that is cutting edge in Australian and New Zealand contemporary practice. In a landmark publication,...

The Australian Dictionary of Biography is THE classic Australian work of reference. Volume 16-the last of four volumes to deal with the period 1940-1980-is used by writers, scholars, researchers and...

On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...

In the early twentieth century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. Perils of the Studio reveals how the romance and mythology of...

In the summer of 1888-89, professional photographer Charles Bristow Walker ventured outside his studio into the streets, and captured the splendour of Melbourne at its peak. For over a century...

The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but also...

From the drama of its geological wonders to its unique flora and fauna, the abundance of its birdlife and the stark beauty of its arid interior, Australia's remarkable diversity is...