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Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
$16.98 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Amy is staying in Marysville with her grandmother, and help in the garden and clean out her gutters. It is, after all, bushfire season. As summer arrives, so do the fires, and Dad is busy helping control the flames in bushfires that have started burning in Victoria. But it is early February 2009, and th ...Show more
Church of the Open Sky by Nat Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Australian Surfer | Reading Level: 3 Biography
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have ...Show more
Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more
Cosmic Chronicles - A user's guide to the Universe by Fred Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Users Guide to the Universe - Australian | Reading Level: near fine
Are we alone in the universe? Where didthe moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Could there reallybe a future in asteroid mining? In CosmicChronicles, Fred Watson - Australia'sAstronomer-at-Large and bestselling author - explores the hottest topics inspace science and astronomy. Watso ...Show more
Cunning Crow by Gregg Dreise
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian
Age range 5 to 12 Remember — beauty comes from within... Way back, before once-upon-a-time, there was the Dreamtime when all the birds were white. One of those white birds was a crow called Waan. One day a big storm came through and a magnificent rainbow appeared. When the birds passed through the rainb ...Show more
Dreadful Lady over the Mekong Delta: RAAF Canberras in the Vietnam War (#7 Australian Air Campaigns) by Bob Howe
$20.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
Dreadful Lady over the Mekong Delta looks at the men of No 2 Squadron and the operations they flew in the Vietnam War in their Canberra bombers. From April 1967, the squadron spent four years attacking enemy targets, many of them in the Mekong Delta region, and contending with the politics, weather, and ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
Fervor by Paul Iskov; Chris Gurney (Photographer); Robert Wood
$39.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Journey Through Australian Native Food
With a focus on local, native ingredients, Fervor gathers together the best recipes from Paul Iskov’s roving dining experience with stories by Robert Wood and photographs by Chris Gurney. Together, they paint a beautiful picture of the food, lifestyle and landscape from a celebrated and award-winning ch ...Show more
First Nations Aviators (#4 Australian Air Campaigns) by RAAF History and Heritage Branch
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
The inaugural Royal Australian Air Force Oral Histories series publication, First Nations Aviators, will introduce you to a number of First Nations People who have proudly served the Air Force, in various capacities, from the Second World War through to today. Albeit brief, their stories are particularl ...Show more
Gardens on the Edge: A Journey Through Australian Landscapes by Christine Reid
$59.99 AUD
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Australian Landscapes | Reading Level: 6 Gardening
18 stunning Australian gardens, each bordering a natural 'frontier', including rainforest, river, desert, bushland, saltbush plains, volcanic lake, mountain ranges and the ocean's edge This lavishly photographed book, written and curated by internationally respected gardening author Christine Reid and ...Show more
Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist by Richard Allsop
$20.00 AUD
$34.95 (42% off)
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country's past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian im ...Show more