Australasian History

This innovative work is about patterns of shame in a range of important Australian autobiographies published between 1960 and 1995. Writing autobiography is a risky business. What is shameful can...

A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J. C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955....

This provocative analysis challenges the belief that, in the first half of this century, Australia was dependent on Great Britain. Instead, "Markets, Money and Empire", suggests that Australia enjoyed considerable...

The book titled Petrol, Bait, Ammo & Ice by the author H.G. Nelson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Travel along Melbourne's twisting Yarra river in a glorious celebration of indigenous culture and Australia's unique flora and fauna. Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly and Aboriginal Elder of the Wurundjeri people...

As Mary Malbunka shares her stories of playing with friends, building cubby houses, climbing trees, collecting sugarbag, digging for honey ants, hunting for lizards, and learning about the seasons, animals...

The book titled The Proud Champions: Australia's Aboriginal Sporting Heroes by the author Bret Harris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled After Light: A History of Adelaide and Its City Council 1878-1928 by the author Peter Morton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

An account of the land and dive time of the exploration of Papua New Guinea, giving, with Cousteau narrative and insight, the lay of land

A lift-the-flap or gatefold guessing-game book for pre-school children based on Australian animals, birds and reptiles and their habitats. Animals featured are frill-necked lizards, emus, echidnas, wombats, kangaroos, kookaburras, goannas,...

The book titled Treasures of the State Library of New South Wales: the Australiana by the author Anne Robertson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Focusing on the first meetings of Maoris and Europeans from 1642 to 1722, this book reassesses accounts of early meetings between these two worlds, which have been told almost exclusively...

Of all types of literature, children's literature is perhaps the best loved, most varied, and most subtly influential. Its history is not merely a footnote to social history, but a...

This fascinating book takes a close look at the role of animal dads in the natural world and what that may say about fatherhood in humans, giving insights into truly...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWNAll My Mob, Ruby Langford Ginibi's fifth book, is a compelling collection of reminiscences on family life, Indigenous...

The book titled Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction by the author A.J. Hassall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward: FOUR SISTERS, SEPARATED BY HISTORY, BOUND BY THE SEA 'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE 'A profoundly moving and rich...

Australian Aboriginal Paintings presents an overview of traditional Aboriginal religious paintings. They are all 'from' the Dreaming, the Tjukurrpa, the Wonggar, the Creation, and express this now, in present day...

All but wiped out in the 1987 stockmarket crash, Joseph Gutnick marshalled all his skills to regain his position as one of the New World's wealthiest men. While his radical...

From one of Australia's leading military historians and biographers, Peter Rees, comes Guts and Glory , an enthralling history of the way in which sport is ever present in the...

The book titled The Social Climbers by the author Chris Darwin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Momentum showcases the vigour of contemporary architecture in Victoria- innovative, formalist, edgy. Successive generations of Victorian architects maintain the tradition of experimentation. We see this in the work of the...

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward: FOUR SISTERS, SEPARATED BY HISTORY, BOUND BY THE SEA 'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE 'A profoundly moving and rich...

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple...

In 2004 John Money concluded a research career that spanned 50 years. He cleared his offi ce at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA and returned to his near empty...

A man treads water in the Swan River, hoping to bring his friend back to shore. Three siblings gaze skyward seeking a comet among the stars. A mother and daughter...

It is 1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini is in Australia for the first time. The most celebrated escape artist in the world has sold-out seasons in both Melbourne...

For over 100 years Australia's military nurses have been risking their own lives to save the lives of others. From nursing Gallipoli wounded in Egypt during World War I, to...

Australia's own 'Minister of Defence', Mackenzie Arnold, shares the inspiring story of the winding road that led to her becoming the Matildas top goalkeeper, including the magical World Cup run...

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...

Ted 'Little Boy Blue' Taylor has replaced his estranged father Ron - a disgraced former heavyweight champion on the cusp of an unexpected comeback - as the darling of Australian...

Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children. Nearly forty per cent of secondary students attend...

We all think we know Alan Bond: larger than life, a flamboyant, mesmerising tycoon - a man who went from being Australia's bona fide hero for his Americas Cup win...

David Williamson is one of Australia's most significant and celebrated cultural figures. For over thirty years his plays have been the mirror to which many Australians have turned to see...

Both highly readable and carefully researched, Keeper of the Faith reassesses the part Jim Cairns played in shaping Australian public life. Jim Cairns is a familiar sight around the markets...

Rolf Boldrewood was one of the best-known novelists of 19th-century Australia, and the first to present specifically Australian characters. "Robbery Under Arms" became a household name and is still in...

This text provides a fully illustrated tie in to a two-part television special that sees David Jason diving in some the world''s most beautiful - and strange - locations.'

Between Two Worlds brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Offering a snapshot of contemporary Australia, this...

Tells of the experiences of the families of men missing in the New Guinea islands during World War II. A Very Long War is about the experiences of the families...

Set against the vast and timeless landscape of Western Australia, a mesmeric tale from the author of the award-winning bestseller The Light Between Oceans, which has sold five million copies...

A guide to the production and management of growing media, this book is a useful reference tool for practising horticulturists, nursery people, landscape architects, turfgrass managers and serious gardeners.

This book is a comprehensive guide to Australia's rich herpetofauna - more than 1000 species of frogs, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, lizard sand snakes. Included is up-to-date information about habitats, full-color...

Celebrating the life of Peter Brock through his family and friends, personal collections of photos, memorabilia and personalised letters. This book provides unprecedented insight into the exceptional life of Peter...

Australian rock music never encountered a frontman quite like Jimmy Barnes. And it probably never will again. Barnes' life story is one of extremes, overflowing with stories of the extraordinary,...