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Life on the Rocks
by Stephen D Hopper, AC & Philippa Nikulinsky
Back by popular demand, the latest edition of this classic work now comes in a handsome hardcover format.
‘Anyone interested in the natural history of Western Australia will find this fine publication a must for their bookshelf’ — West Australian.‘… a book for anyone with a love of the bush, gardens and art’ — Hobart Mercury.
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Price $35.00
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Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape
by Jeanette Hoorn
Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape maps the tradition of pastoral painting in Australia, charting its entanglement with the great pastoral settlement of the country. In a new interpretation of contact history, Jeanette Hoorn argues that the twin strategies of friendship and betrayal were used to defeat black sovereignty over the…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Pippin Drysdale: Lines of Site
by Ted Snell
This is a major monograph on internationally renowned ceramic artist, Pippin Drysdale, which situates her within Australian and international visual culture of the last half century. It is beautifully illustrated with over 60 colour and 40 black and white photographs of Pippin’s works and working practices. Read more »
Price $49.95
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Rhythms of the Kimberley
by Russell Guého & Tim Winton
‘I welcome this book for its sense of intimacy and its gentle guidance, for helping us to see what it is we’re looking at when we encounter such a remarkable and complex region as the Kimberley.’ — Tim Winton.
A beautiful production with over 100 full-colour photographs, Rhythms of the Kimberley travels through this stunning, dramatically changing…Read more »
Price $35.00
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Keeping the Wanjinas Fresh
by Valda Blundell & Donny Woolagoodja
This is the story of the people of the Wanjinas and their unbroken living cosmology of Lalai, the Dreaming. It is also the story of Sam Woolagoodja, who was responsible for repainting the sacred Wanjinas in many of the rock shelters that dot the Kimberley landscape, and was among the first to paint the sacred stories on bark and board for Worrorra children…Read more »
Price $35.00
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Perth
by Jeff Bell & Robert Drewe with photography by Frances Andrijich
Leading Western Australian photographer Frances Andrijch and writers, Robert Drewe and Jeff Bell, powerfully evoke Perth in words and images.
‘Whenever I consider the notion of home town — not the place where I happen to live now, or even the city where I’ve spent the greater part of my life, but where I come from — I have a vivid memory of a particular…Read more »
Price $49.95
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Aegean light: The Spirit of Olympia
by Nick Melidonis
Everything here speaks now as it did centuries ago, of illumination. Here the light penetrates directly to the soul, opens the door and windows of the heart, makes one naked, exposed, isolated in a metaphysical bliss which makes everything so clear ..Read more »
Price $39.95
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Piercing the Ground
by Christine Watson
With its sense that the stunning paintings from the Western Desert bear more than meets the eye, Christine Watson’s Piercing the Ground stands as a highly original and groundbreaking elucidation of Kutjungka painting and a significant addition to what is known as ‘the anthropology of art’. A fitting tribute to her indigenous mentors, this book should…Read more »
Price $39.95
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Wool: The Australian Story - Special Offer!
by Roger McDonald & Amanda Burdon with photography by Richard Woldendorp, AM
It was once said that if the sheep station represented Australian autocracy, then the shearing shed was the true republic. Here, in 40 degree heat wrestling big wethers, every shearer is equal and judged only by their capacity for work.
The definitive history of the wool industry in wonderfully colourful and lively photographs and power word images.Read more »
Price $39.95
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Antarctica: First Impressions
by Douglas R G Sellick
These travellers’ tales have one thing in common: they are true. Antarctica is the driest, the windiest, the highest continent on earth. And the least known. This anthology offers a diverse collection of gripping autobiographical first impressions of travellers of all kinds to Antarctica. From the very famous, to the many long forgotten expeditioners…Read more »
Price $29.95
From the Catalogue
Ten Tiny Things on Wilderness Society shortlist
Ten Tiny Things author Meg McKinlay was pleasantly surprised to be shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, just one day after winning a Crystal Kite award.
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