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
Tea and Sugar Christmas by Jane Jolly
19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
The Tea and Sugar train only came once a week on a Thursday. But the special Christmas train only came once a year. Today was Sunday. Four more days without sugar. Four more days until the Christmas train. Please, please be on time. Please don't be late. Join Kathleen in the outback as she eagerly await ...Show more
Captain Thunderbolt's Recital by Jane Jolly
24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Age range 4+Captain Thunderbolt was known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’. He didn’t like violence, was always polite, and even paid back most of the money he stole. In Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital, author Jane Jolly retells the true tale of one of the bushranger’s most famous robberies with comic effect ...Show more
Star of Anise by Jane Jolly
17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Age range 5+ The hawker's wagon jingled and jangled as it came down the track … *WINNER Northern Lights Book Awards Multicultural Category 2022**CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Picture book of the year*Age range 5+The hawker's wagon jingled and jangled as it came down the track …Annie and Arthur have been eager ...Show more
Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia by Ian Hoskins
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Rivers have long run in the blood of Australians. Givers of life and subjects of anguish, Australian rivers have shaped the nation from the moment the first Australians arrived tens of thousands of years ago. Offering the vital ingredient for life, they are also guardians of culture, a means of transpor ...Show more
Joyce Evans by Sasha Grishin
39.99 AUD
Category: Art
‘I don’t know what sort of photographer I am, but I try to be an honest one.’Joyce Evans was an unusual phenomenon in the Australian photography scene. Her conversion to photography did not occur until she was already in her forties, while her engagement in professional photography had to wait until she ...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
Socks , Sandbags and Leeches: Letters to My ANZAC Dad (HB) by Pauline Deeves
3.50 AUD
Category: NLA General
Ivy and her mother live in Australia, far away from where the Great War is raging. They have moved in with Aunt Hilda whose flat is so small that Ivy has to sleep under the kitchen table. Not only that, but she also has to empty Aunt Hilda’s chamber pot! ‘The Pests’ live in the flat on one side and, on ...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
The Botanical Art of William T. Cooper by Wendy Cooper
65.00 AUD
Category: Art
William T. Cooper was one of the world's most esteemed bird painters. In his paintings, birds nibble at plump red berries, they rest on twisted vines and branches covered with lichen, and they clutch forest fruits and leaves in their claws. These botanical details, the backdrops to his bird portraits, a ...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
Great Expectations Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia by Patricia Clarke
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA General