The Bible in Australia - A Cultural History by Meredith Lake
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, a ...Show more
Telling Tennant's Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by Dean Ashenden
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Tennant Creek and Australia's Unresolved Past The tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact.Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out ...Show more
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more
Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values (31st Ed) Australian Coin and Banknote Values 1800-2022 by Michael Pitt (Editor)
44.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Renniks Australian Coins & Banknotes Ser.
Available: 1st July 2022 (PB) The leading guide for Australian coin and banknote values. Covers 1800-2021.Edited by Michael Pitt. This comprehensive guide to Australian Coin & Banknote Values contains over 3,850 images and countless thousands of valuations. This book is a must for all collectors, wh ...Show more
First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Pathfinders by Michael Bennett
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history.From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover's wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles. A rare exception is the redoubtable tracker. With skills passed down over millennia, trackers could ...Show more
Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras
55.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
An enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years. In 1835, as he walked the sacred grounds of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations, John Batman wrote in his d ...Show more
Talking To My Country: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Adam Courtenay
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day. Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, S ...Show more
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier by Mark Dunn
19.99 AUD
32.99 (39% off)
Category: Australian History
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginals and convicts in the second settlement in ...Show more