Old Vintage Melbourne, 1960-1990 by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne, this collection invites you again to turn back time and revisit the diverse past of the much-loved city of Melbourne. This captivating compilation of photographs taken between 1960 and 1990 provides a fascinating glimpse of a time that is familiar and yet different, w ...Show more
100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From the ghostly black horse of Sutton Forest to the butcher of Adelaide Street, a haunted Brisbane lift to the chilling experiments carried out by Doctor Blood of the North Kapunda Hotel, Australia abounds in spooky stories that are all unnervingly based in fact and tied to real places to visit or avoi ...Show more
Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the stories behind the myths by Richard White (Editor); Melissa Harper (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is a land of symbols. The Southern Cross. The Sydney Opera House. The kangaroo. Vegemite. But what do they actually mean? Where do national symbols come from and what makes them popular? Why are some symbols so hotly contested? Does Australia have more than its fair share?Symbols of Australia ...Show more
Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
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
Back Roads #2: The Scenic Route by Heather Ewart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia's inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV's Back Roads has taken us across Australia, through scorched deserts, along sapphire coasts, up breathtaking mountains and over gentle, roll ...Show more
Sh*t Towns of Australia by Rick Furphy; Geoff Rissole
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The hilarious guide to the shittest towns in Australia.
Australia Remember This Too! by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia Remember This Too! is a photographic celebration of nostalgia, particularly for Baby Boomers, 114,000 of whom follow the 'Australia Remember When' Facebook page, sharing their photos and memories.Remember Mike Willesee's A Current Affair from the '70s? Fairy bread with hundreds and thousands a ...Show more
Back Roads by Heather Ewart; Karen Michelmore (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities - and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defi ...Show more
Born in 1957? by Ron Williams
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Born in Series
This is the eightth of the 1950s and the fourteenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to mak ...Show more
Vic Bar: A History of the Victorian Bar by Peter Yule
$69.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1841 in Port Phillip's new Supreme Court a young Redmond Barry argued that the evidence against two Tasmanian Aboriginals accused of murder was quite insufficient for conviction-to no avail. In January 1842 the first execution took place in front of 3000 spectators. Four decades later, the eminent Re ...Show more
The Forgotten Menzies: The World Picture of Australia's Longest-Serving Prime Minister by Stephen Chavura; Greg Melleuish
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was the founder of the Liberal Party of Australia. As well as being Australia's longest-serving prime minister, Menzies was the most thoughtful. Menzies' world picture was one where Britishness was the overriding normative principle, and in which cultural puritanism and philoso ...Show more
Prospecting for Gold by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson ((various roles), Editor, Designed by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Imprint Classics Ser.
'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.' And so Jack Idriess wrote Prospecting for Gold in 1931. This is the 21st edition and known throughout Australia as the classic self-help manual for would-be prospectors.T ...Show more