Mr Todd's Marvel: How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1855 Charles Todd had a bold dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to connect it to the world. By 1870, Singapore had joined the global network: now for Australia. Todd and his men succesfully erected thousands of telegraph poles - one every 80 metres - across land that was relentlessly in ...Show more
Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle by Carmel O'Shannessy, Wanta Steven Patrick Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu Jampijinpa, Henry Cooke Jakamarra, Steven Dixon Japanangka, Myfany Turpin, Jerry Patrick Jangala
$80.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
*Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle *documents a ceremonial song cycle situated within the traditional kurdiji “shield” ceremony, as sung by Warlpiri Elder Henry Cooke Anderson Jakamarra at Lajamanu, Northern Territory, in 2013.The song cycle relates to a women’s jukurrpa *Dreaming narrative, and tells th ...Show more
Australia's Great Depression: How a Nation Shattered by the Great War Survived the Worst Economic Crisis it has Ever Faced by Joan Beaumont
$30.00 AUD
$49.99 (39% off)
Category: Australiana
How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression. Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great De ...Show more
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation by Ross McMullin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Aust ...Show more
Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs by Georgia Curran (Editor); Linda Barwick (Editor); Nicolas Peterson (Editor); Valerie Napaljarri Martin (Editor); Simon Japangardi Fisher (Editor)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts Ser.
Warlpiri songs hold together the ceremonies that structure and bind social relationships, and encode detailed information about Warlpiri country, cosmology and kinship. Today, only a small group of the oldest generations has full knowledge of ceremonial songs and their associated meanings, and there is ...Show more
Fight for Liberty and Freedom The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism by John Maynard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s which culminated in the famous Aboriginal tent embassy in 1972.Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the ...Show more
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderati ...Show more