First Footprints: The epic story of the First Australians by Scott Cane
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the plains and enormous crocodiles, giant snakes and goannas nestled in the estuaries and savannahs. First Fo ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press by Michael Richards
39.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press is an account of a passion: that of a publisher and the books he made for himself and his friends, keeping alive craft traditions that were threatened by unrelenting change.‘Printing is like religion’, Alec Bolton once said. ‘We live in sin, but with the hope of per ...Show more
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
15.00 AUD
Category: NLA General
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history by Hugh Tranter
29.99 AUD
49.99 (40% off)
Category: NLA General
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra ...Show more
Viewfinder: Photography from the 1970's to Now by National Library of Australia
24.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Viewfinder is a dynamic and insightful look at how Australia has changed over the last 50 years, through a survey of photographs from the National Library of Australia’s collection. These images, ranging from the 1970s to the present day, also tell the fascinating story of the changing nature of photogr ...Show more
Grit and Gold: Tales From a Sporting Nation by National Library of Australia
5.00 AUD
19.99 (74% off)
Category: NLA General
Sport is a story telling machine. When we watch a game, race or competition, there are all the makings of a great tale. There are heroes and villains. There are challenges to overcome. There is a sense of jeopardy and risk. There is triumph and failure, comedy and tragedy. All these elements unfold with ...Show more
Ice Bound: The Australian Story of Antarctica by Joy McCann
49.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Australians have long been tempted by the lure of the ice to the south, and our Antarctic stories are filled with mystery, exploration, adventure, ground-breaking science, tragedy, and triumph.The Antarctic region was taking shape in the Australian imagination long before humans ventured into the high s ...Show more
Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845 by Philip Jones
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
George French Angas (1822–1886) was one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding colonial artists. As a young man in the 1840s he journeyed to Australia and New Zealand, where he excelled at capturing the minute detail of plants and people, objects and landscapes. The bush was his studio — he captured th ...Show more
Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author (Charlotte Waring Atkinson) by Kate Forsyth; Belinda Murrell
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte's story along with that of their own journey to discover her. In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices; admiring the strength of spirit that ...Show more
Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation by Tim Fischer
39.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
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
Bold Types: How Australia’s First Women Journalists Blazed a Trail by Patricia Clarke
29.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II. These were independent, adventurous women who ventured far and wide in search of news, relevance and equality.Together, stories of women from Anna Bla ...Show more