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The Last of the Nomads
by W J Peasley
‘Peasley’s description of the events…is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.’ —Don Grant, Australian Book Review
‘The intriguing story of [the rescue of an elderly couple believed to be the last Australian nomads] and how they survived alone for the previous 30 years or so in the unrelenting western Gibson Desert…Read more »
Price $22.95
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Mowanjum: 50 years community history
Mowanjum will always be in my memories especially the people, the culture and the beautiful country the Mowanjum mob came from.
Mary-Lou DivilliThis is a lively and richly illustrated book produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the Mowanjum Aboriginal Community.
Mowanjum shares the Wandjina traditions in songs, myth, stories and poems alongside…Read more »
Price $55.00
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Someone Else's Country ebook
by Peter Docker
Written in hotel rooms while working as a professional actor in various indigenous film, television and theatre productions, Peter Docker’s Someone Else’s Country is a deeply sensitive and at times intensely visceral engagement with contemporary indigenous culture … it is also a powerful historical document, which has at its heart the struggle…Read more »
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Someone Else's Country
by Peter Docker
‘Written in hotel rooms while working as a professional actor in various indigenous film, television and theatre productions, Peter Docker’s Someone Else’s Country is a deeply sensitive and at times intensely visceral engagement with contemporary indigenous culture…it is also a powerful historical document, which has at its heart the struggle…Read more »
Price $24.95
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True Country
by Kim Scott
Kim Scott captures the ambiguities, the troubles and the rewards which accompany the brutal and delicate nuances of relations when particles of one culture pass, as if through a fine sieve, into the heart of another culture.
Elizabeth Jolley‘True Country, Kim Scott’s first novel, is superb’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘This vital, often…Read more »
Price $22.95
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True Country ebook
Kim Scott captures the ambiguities, the troubles and the rewards which accompany the brutal and delicate nuances of relations when particles of one culture pass, as if through a fine sieve, into the heart of another culture.
Elizabeth Jolley‘True Country, Kim Scott’s first novel, is superb’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘This vital, often…Read more »
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Two-Hearted Numbat, The
by Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina with illustrations by Ambelin Kwaymullina
Numbat has two hearts, one of stone and one of feather. His stone heart makes him strong and powerful while his feather heart makes him soft and gentle. When having more than one heart becomes troublesome, Numbat must choose which one to keep… Read more »
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Heartsick for Country ebook
by Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia & Blaze Kwaymullina
The stories in this anthology speak of the love between Aboriginal peoples and their countriesRead more »
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Bawoo Stories
by May O'Brien with illustrations by Sue Wyatt & Angela Leaney
Four wonderful traditional teaching stories of the Wongutha people are collected together here for the first time: Barn Barn Barlala, The Kangaroos Who Wanted to be People, How Crows Became Black, Why the Emu Can’t Fly.
First published as individual titles in 1992, these stories were ground-breaking publications, presenting traditional…Read more »
Price $26.95
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Heartsick for Country
by Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia & Blaze Kwaymullina
The stories in this anthology speak of the love between Aboriginal peoples and their countriesRead more »
Price $27.95
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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