A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
"A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Stop at Nothing - The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull by Annabel Crabb
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In Stop at Nothing Annabel Crabb brings all her wit and perceptiveness to the story of Malcolm Turnbull. This is a memorable look at the Prime Minister in action - his flaws and achievements - as well as his past lives and adventures. Drawing on extensive interviews with Turnbull, Crabb delves into ...Show more
A Country Too Far by Rosie; Keneally Scott
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
"I don't think I've seen a more impressive collection of Australian writers in a single book.'aStephen Romei,aThe Australian One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven ...Show more
Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
Grog A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years by Tom Gilling
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and sparked a revolution, made fortunes and ruined lives. In a society with few luxuries, liquor was power. It played a crucial role, not just in the lives of individuals like ...Show more
Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia by Steve Cannane
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
As astonishing as it is compelling - Steve Cannane's extraordinary insight into Scientology in Australia is investigative journalism at its very best. From Rugby League players trying to improve their game, to Hollywood superstars and the depressed sons of media moguls, Scientology has recruited its sha ...Show more
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages by James Cook, John Hawkesworth
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The first-ever illustrated account of Captain James Cook's epic eighteenth-century voyages, complete with excerpts from his vivid journals. This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders w ...Show more
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 by John Blaxland
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
In 1963, Robert Menzies had been in office for 13 years, Australians had entered the war against communism in Vietnam, and change was in the air. With its focus on exposing Soviet spies and communist collaborators, ASIO struggled to adjust to a society no longer willing to unquestioningly accept authori ...Show more
The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat by Andrew P. Street
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The even more elaborately-titled sequel to The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott, this is a tale of a muddling and middling prime minister and his attempts to steer his inertia-heavy government away from electoral disaster...Fairfax columnist Andrew P Street details the litan ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People - Volume 2 by Geoffrey Blainey
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
An accomplishment of both great sweep and impressive detail, Geoffrey Blainey's ambitious account of this country, The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia, takes us from the gold rush to the present day. It marks the culmination of a lifelong study by one of Australia's mos ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...Show more