Tall Ships and Tall Tales by Jonathon King
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Tall Ships and Tall Tales is a unique account of a historian who has always refused to let the past be forgotten. This special book includes newspaper photos and political cartoons about the momentous events it describes.
Ned Kelly by John C. Molony
$14.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Since his death in the old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, Ned Kelly has become a part of the land and its memories. In this evocative, imaginative recreation of the Kelly story, John Molony unravels the tangled skein of a life over which legend has cast a spell.
My Place - indigenous - FP by Sally Morgan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Recounting experiences from travels back to her grandmother's birthplace, this classic of Australian literature documents what started out as a tentative search for information about the author's family--and turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. Unearthing political and societa ...Show more
Painting the Island Vermilion - Archibald Watson and the Brig Carl by Jennifer M. T. Carter
$25.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
A straightforward account of the intriguing career of an extraordinary Australian doctor, Archibald Watson, the first Elder Professor of Anatomy at the University of Adelaide (1885–1920), who was involved in piracy and “blackbirding” or slave-trading in the 1800s.
A Place for Strangers - Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being by Tony Swain
$20.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Many of the elements ascribed to traditional Aboriginal beliefs and practices are the result of contact with external peoples--Melanesians and Indonesians, as well as Europeans. This controversial and provocative book is the first detailed and continent-wide study of the impact of outsiders on Australia ...Show more
Mysteries of the Dreamtime - The Spiritual Life of the Australian Aborigine by James Cowan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good
Lands of Shame - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'Homelands' in Transition by Helen Hughes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Some 90,000 of Australia’s 500,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders live appallingly deprived lives in ‘homelands’ thought remote Australia. Their health and housing are so abysmal that their expectation of life is 20 years shorter than that of other Australians. Deprived of education, they cannot ...Show more
Gwion Gwion : Secret and Sacred Pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal People of Australia by Konemann
$40.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Led by four Aboriginal lawmcn, Secret and Sacred Pathways chronicles a journey into North Western Australia to uncover some of the oldest figurative paintings on the continent, known as Gwion. The ancient rock art illustrates a distinct society whose customs are still celebrated today. With an enlighten ...Show more
The Discovery of Australia by George Collingridge
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
Impulse to Paint: The Artists of Iylenty, Utopia by Eugene Barilo von Reisberg
$10.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
The Water Dreamers : The Remarkable History of our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
The story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew. From the moment the First ...Show more
Where the Ancestors Walked: Australia as an Aboriginal Landscape by Philip A. Clarke
$16.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
This work delves into the exciting story of one of the oldest continuous civilizations on earth. Beginning with the complexities of early human colonization and continuing through later European resettlement, the history of Australia's native people is told in a wide-ranging and sympathetic fashion. Dra ...Show more