From Tents & Tin Huts to Timber Houses & Tiger Snakes - Soldier Settlers' Stories from Hawkesdale, Macarthur & Penshurst by James Affleck (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Stories of soldier settlement in the Hawkesdale, Macarthur and Penshurst districts of South West Victoria as told by the settlers themselves and their descendants from the time of moving on to blocks with a tin hut or tent to live in until the each block was developed into a working farmstead. Many sett ...Show more
Do Mutton Birds Have Maps And Other Poems by Ganga Powell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Whimsical poems and quirky illustrations make this a charming childrens' book. Simple rhymes make it easy to read them aloud to toddlers. Likewise, young readers can read them on their own and enjoy the funny poems and illustrations that accompany them.
Wildlife of the Otways and Shipwreck Coast by Grant Palmer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
The Otways and Shipwreck Coast is known for its natural beauty and attracts millions of visitors each year, particularly along the Great Ocean Road. The value of the region's rich biodiversity is recognised at the national and global level and its wildlife is markedly different to other regions, includi ...Show more
Written in Stone: Reading the Rocks of the Great Ocean Road by Philomena Manifold
$55.00 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
A celebration of the unique coastline of the Great Ocean Road and the deep time that has shaped it. Written in Stone takes the reader from the ochre cliffs of Torquay where 25 million year old fossils can be found, past the tip of Cape Otway where Gondwanan rivers have preserved dinosaur bones and on to ...Show more
The Vanished Land: Disappearing dynasties of Victoria's Western District by Richard Zachariah
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons.This melancholy exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by di ...Show more
Settlers Under Sail by Donald Ernest Charlwood
$16.95 AUD
Category: History
Commissioned by the Victorian (Australia) Government's History Advisory Council to commemorate, in 1978, the centenary of the wreck of the Loch Ard, this book celebrates the era of sailing ship immigration to Australia and tells the story of the famous Loch Ard. It contains many fascinating photos and s ...Show more
Connect Practical Ways to Grow and Prepare Sustainable Food by Kylie Treble
$60.00 AUD
Category: Food & Drink
"In isolation, morality has neither role nor application - but that's just it you see, we are not in isolation and therefore pursuing morally driven responses is essential to all we do, in particular eating, cooking and edible gardening."CONNECT is a locally produced book encouraging you to grow and pre ...Show more
Dysons Ford - Early Settlement of the Woodford and Yangery Districts by David Turland
$59.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Explains the lives of the Aboriginal people before European settlement, the arrival of the settlers, and how the two cultures coped with each other. It describes how and why Woodford was established on the Merri River.Part II details the lives of over 100 pioneer settlers.