The Women's Pool by Lynne Spender (ed)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
The history of McIvers Ladies Baths in Coogee affectionately know as the Womens Pool is eloquently told in these stories by women who have found friendship, sanctuary and simple pleasure as they have gathered and swum there. The history of Coogees McIvers Ladies Baths Australias only ocean pool reserved ...Show more
Visiting Immigration Detention - Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Global Migration and Social Change Ser.
Michelle Peterie's revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention. Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia's onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the ...Show more
Francis Birtles: Australian Adventurer by Warren Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
A narrative account of the life and times of one of Australia's most extraordinary adventurers - a man who crossed Australia more than 70 times in the early part of the 20th century - by bicycle and car. In 1927 he acheived the greatest motoring feat of the times, driving a car from London to Melbourne. ...Show more
Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation by Tim Fischer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
If you are passionate about steam locomotives, or know someone who is, then Steam Australia is the perfect companion. Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating and grand story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia's history. This book is so much more than a h ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: A Life in Pictures and Words from the Banjo Paterson Family Archive by Alistair Campbell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
A stunning collection from the archive of Australia's greatest storyteller, Banjo Paterson. Notebooks, illustrations, photographs, letters and transcripts of some of our best-loved songs, poems and stories have been brought together for the first time. Banjo's great-grandson and sole executor of the po ...Show more
Our Country: A Pictorial Journey Through Australia by AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Is there anything more vivid than the Australian landscape? A canvas rich in colour, burnished by intense light and spectacularly varied. Its landscapes both intimate and expansive, and if we train our attention, we see it is full of secret life. Our Country is a work of imagination, grounded in the mos ...Show more
Burn: Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia by COLLINS Paul
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
With the start of every bushfire season and the first threatening hints of burning eucalypt in the air, we are reminded, no matter where we live, that bushfire is an inescapable reality in Australia. In Burn, Paul Collins tells the epic story of bushifire in Australia, drawing on accounts of the most de ...Show more
Oslo's Melbourne: Illustrated Adventures in the World's Most Tolerated City by Oslo Davis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
A brilliantly entertaining, full-colour collection of words and pictures by Melbourne's favourite cartoonist, Oslo Davis Oslo Davis has a complicated relationship with Melbourne- the fear of living anywhere else is pretty much the only thing keeping him here. Yet the city continues to inspire, amuse and ...Show more
St Kilda 1841-1900 Movers and Shakers and Money Makers by Carmel McKenzie
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
VICTORIAN PREMIER’S HISTORY AWARD WINNER St Kilda 1841–1900 is a beautifully presented and profusely illustrated social history of one of Melbourne’s best-known bayside suburbs. Having identified the driving forces behind the early urban development of what was an attractive grassy knoll, Carmel McKen ...Show more
Mini Retro Sydney by Ian Collis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Mini Retro Sydney is a fantastic visual throwback to the 'Harbour City' in the 1950s and 60s, with never before seen images gathered by vintage photograph collector Ian Collis. Breathtaking photos of Sydney's most valuable landmarks provide a retrospective insight into the architecture, automobiles, fas ...Show more
A-Z of Australian Facts, Myths and Legends by Bruce Elder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
THE A-Z OF AUSTRALIAN FACTS, MYTHS LEGENDS covers more than 700 anecdotes, myths and traditions that are part of Australia's diverse culture and colourful history. Featuring well-known historical facts and legends, such as the landing of the First Fleet, the death of Ned Kelly, what the Dreamtime repres ...Show more
Sh*t Towns of Australia: The Great Aussie Road Trip by Rick Furphy, Geoff Rissole
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Join the cult authors of Sh*t Towns of Australia on an unforgettably crap journey through Australia's sh*ttest towns.