Flora: Australia's Most Curious Plants by Tania Mccartney
29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
When it comes to flora, Australia is a land of diversity. From rainforests to deserts, mountains to the seashore, 90 per cent of our plant life is unique to this ancient land. Treasures like our wattles, eucalypts, grass trees and banksias are part of our heritage and identity – and they still flourish ...Show more
Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories by National Library National Library of Australia
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA Publications
Stories of migration are very much part of the Australian experience. In most homes in Australia, you will find a bookcase, mantelpiece or shelf with a display of family photos. Intimate galleries chronical the individuals, both young and old, who populate the family tree. Sometimes the images reach bac ...Show more
Vintage Crochet: Classic Australian Patterns by National Library of Australia
39.99 AUD
Category: Art
Featuring vintage crochet patterns found in Australian publications, including the Australian Women's Weekly and the Australian Woman's Mirror, this book has instructions for a variety of garments, accessories, toys and homewares. Each pattern will be accompanied by illustrations from the original publ ...Show more
Our Streets: The Regional Cities and Major Towns Project by National Library of Australia
39.99 AUD
Category: History
The modernist RSL club, the Art Deco cinema, the stilted Queenslander or the elaborate Edwardian. The iconography of Australia's regional towns is familiar to many of us, whether we live, work and play in these places, or just journey through. A distinctive Australian architecture has developed, less gl ...Show more
Dog Beach by Julie A. Murphy
24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
With bright, fun illustrations by Annie White, this short, rhythmic story will capture the attention of all beach and dog loving children, and even their parents! Look who's at the dog beach!Strong dogs, long dogs,Playing dogs, staying dogs,Black dogs, brown dogs, go-to-town dogs, Bit-of-a-clown dogs, u ...Show more
Strangers on Country by David Hartley, Kirsty Murray
29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Age range 8+ Giom, Anco and Duramboi are the names of just three young shipwreck survivors and convict escapees who were given refuge by Indigenous communities during the nineteenth century. No one knows exactly how many received sustenance from the local people, but there are some documented accounts ...Show more
Telling Lives: The Seymour Biography Lecture 2005-2023 by Chris Wallace (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA Publications
'What we now want from a biography, or autobiography, is the very thing that Virginia Woolf said that we have no right to want: art. Not only art, obviously, but art nevertheless. And we love the illumination of dark corners of the soul, having quite a few of our own, if we're honest with ourselves. - ...Show more
Townsend of the Ranges by Peter Crowley
36.99 AUD
Category: NLA Publications
Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (18121869) is an elusive, almost legendary figure, closer to folklore than to history. His name is given to the country's second highest mountain, but the details of his career are obscure and his personal identity has remained a mystery. Yet, if you live in southern New ...Show more
Seen but Not Heard: Lilian Medland's Birds by Christobel Mattingley
19.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Lilian Medland has not received until now the recognition she deserves as a painter of birds. Due to world events and circumstances, five important books on birds containing her superb illustrations were never published. Despite such major disappointments, she continued to devote her time and talent to ...Show more
Spirit of the Garden by Trisha Dixon
65.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
Gardens can be formal or wild, serene or ostentatious, native or exotic, colourful or monochrome —according to Trisha Dixon, if we like a person, we will probably like their garden In a series of written reflections, interwoven with her evocative, painterly photographs, Trisha explores the relationship ...Show more
Marion and the Forty Thieves by Sarah Luke
19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
A smirking boy shuffled past the door, and Marion, hands shaking, quickly turned the key in the lock. It was Cotterson, the boy from Sewers Canal who wanted to burn the Sobraon. Her heart jolted.The barge had delivered the Forty Thieves onto the ship!Marion’s life is anything but ordinary. The daughter ...Show more
Ellis Rowan by National Library of Australia
34.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Artists of the National Library of Australia Ser.
'Petite, plucky and always immaculately dressed in the constraint of Victorian finery...throughout her life she was acclaimed internationally, winning 29 medals, and accolades from leading art critics. Her work was also collected by royalty, including Queen Victoria.' — Patricia Fullerton, 2002Ellis Row ...Show more