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Babes in the Bush
by Kim Torney
A powerful exploration of the making of a uniquely Australian image — the evocative and enduring image of the child lost in the Bush. Along with drought, fire and flood, the stories of children lost in the bush became central to the Australian colonial experience (even though there were any number of more likely, and more gruesome ways a child could…Read more »
Price $35.00
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Babes in the Bush ebook
by Kim Torney
A powerful exploration of the making of a uniquely Australian image — the evocative and enduring image of the child lost in the Bush. Along with drought, fire and flood, the stories of children lost in the bush became central to the Australian colonial experience (even though there were any number of more likely, and more gruesome ways a child could…Read more »
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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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No Ordinary Determination
by Jeff Hatwell
An epic tale of two ordinary individuals thrown into the extraordinary and surreal world of the Gallipoli campaign as soldiers of the First AIF in WWI. Percy Black and Harry Murray were plain hard-working Australians whose paths crossed in Western Australia when they enlisted in support of country and empire. The powerful narrative paints a complex…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Survivors: Great Open Boat Voyages
by Douglas R G Sellick
Mutiny, shipwrecks, escaped convicts, cannibalism, lost love and death are just some of the rich ingredients of eight real life stories of heroic voyages in small open boats. These extraordinary survival stories include that of Captain William Bligh who, following the infamous Bounty mutiny, successfully navigated 3600 miles in an open boat from the…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Ways of Seeing China
by Timothy Kendall
Drawing upon novels, comic strips, ASIO dossiers, government documents, public polls, travelogues and politicians’ pronouncements, Ways of Seeing China seeks to understand why Australia’s China has developed from the epitome of all things hateful, barbaric and undemocratic into something captivating, admirable, irresistible, even if still undemocratic…Read more »
Price $24.95
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City Bushman
by Christopher Lee
Henry Lawson continues to be invoked as an authentic representative of the Australian spirit. In times and places both remote and present people have felt drawn to his writing while others railed against him. Prime Minister Billy Hughes said he was ‘part of the national life of the people’ and threw him a State funeral, but Jack Lang thought this fuss…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Gates of Memory, The
by Tanja Luckins
Much has been written on the Anzac legend and the 60,000 Australians who lost their lives in the Great War. Little has been said about the hundreds of thousands who were left to grieve for their loved ones, denied bodies over which to mourn. The Gates of Memory is a beautifully written and provocative cultural history that explores the meanings, for…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Redbill: From Pearls to Peace — The Life and Times of A Remarkable Lugger
by Kate Lance
Once there were hundreds of wooden ketches like Redbill fishing for pearlshell in the old north-west, but none of them had her amazing gift for survival. Redbill lived through the great days of Broome pearling, and when war came to Darwin she was there as bombs began to fall. In Papua she hunted crocodiles and carried cargo for a tribe reclaiming…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Castaway
by Douglas R G Sellick
The stories told here actually happened; none is imaginary; none is embellished; all are more fantastic than fiction and are little known. These true tales of nineteenth-century survival reveal the terror, the horror, the dark truths about human nature, the limits of courage and the fragility of life, about people who have been abandoned to the sea…Read more »
Price $24.95
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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