Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming by Gabrielle Chan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
'Australia has no national food security policy. No national agriculture policy. We know what has been going on with water allocations and there is still no national response. Those with the means and access shop at farmer's market and order their brunch referring to the origins of their eggs, bacon, bu ...Show more
The Grey Nomads Guide to Australia: Experience the beauty and freedom of our great landscape - for the young and old alike! by New Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Whether you are travelling in a caravan, motorhome, camper van, camper trailer, fifth wheeler or a tent this book covers it all. Be it part-time, full-time or periodic, becoming a Nomad will allow you to, hopefully, experience one of the greatest new adventures of your life. The Grey Nomad Guide to Aust ...Show more
Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women w ...Show more
In Living Memory by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-In-Chief)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
The story of Australia in the middle decades of the 20th century – from 1930 to 1980 – is one of dramatic contrast; of dark days and light – of economic struggle, anxiety, war and sacrifice, giving way from the 1950s onwards to prosperity, plenty and confidence.Australian Geographic’s In Living Memory s ...Show more
Gum: The Story of Eucalypts & their Champions by Ashley Hay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
No matter where you look in Australia, you're more than likely to see a eucalyptus tree. Scrawny or majestic, smooth as pearl or rough as a pub brawl, they have defined a continent for thousands of years, and they continue to shape our imagination.First Nations Australians have long known the abilities ...Show more
Life Unhurried: Slow and Sustainable Stays across Australia by Celeste Mitchell, Krista Eppelstun, Katie Gannon
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Based on the travel and lifestyle website of the same name, Life Unhurried is a fresh and inviting coffee table book featuring 50 of the best slow and sustainable stays hidden across Australia. These covetable properties – found in some of the country’s most underrated destinations – are places where yo ...Show more
Ultimate Caravan Trips: Australia by Catherine Best
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Ultimate Ser.
Ultimate Caravan Trips: Australia is your ticket to #vanlife. This caravanner's travel bible lifts the lid on 40 of the best adventures you can have on six (or eight) wheels. Organised into state and territory chapters, it is packed with wanderlust to inspire your next caravan trip, from weekend escape ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
An enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years. In 1835, as he walked the sacred grounds of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations, John Batman wrote in his d ...Show more
Australia's Outback: Photographs from the Australian Geographic Image Collection by Australian Geographic
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
There's no signpost or map reference, nor any border to cross - even though it covers several million square kilometres. In the end, the genius of The Outback is that you can't pin it down. To get there you have to head inland and keep travelling. You'll recognise it when it happens, but before you do, ...Show more
The Great Forest: The rare beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands by David Lindenmayer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
A tribute to an extraordinary landscape now under severe threat. The exquisite photographs reveal the mountain ash forests of central Victoria to be one of Australia's great natural treasures. The city of Melbourne lies on the edge of a vast plain surrounded by a green and blue mountainous rim, whose ...Show more
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonised by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian d ...Show more