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Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe by Dennis Haskell
$30.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Studies in Australian literature series
Bruce Dawe is widely appreciated as a social satirist, but many readers are unaware of the range and various dimensions of his poetry. Dennis Haskall offers an insightful exploration of all Dawe's poetry from his first publication in 1954 to 2001.
From Roadside to Recovery The Story of the Victorian State Accident Commision by Peter Bragge & Russell Gruen
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
In 1969 car crashes killed over 1000 Victorians, making Victoria's roads some of the world's most deadly. By 2016, the fatality rate had been cut by 85% and Victorians are now taking seriously the goal of eliminating death on the roads altogether.This extraordinary achievement is the product of sustaine ...Show more
Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback by Andrew Nette
$125.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mains ...Show more
Locating Australian Literary Memory by Brigid Magner
$347.17 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
'Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark ...Show more
The Life of Such Is Life - A Cultural History of an Australian Classic by Roger Osborne
$45.00 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy's handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controv ...Show more
Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Australian History by Darrell Lewis
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian studies
The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost Leichhardt expedition. In April 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and six other men set out westward from the Queensland frontier, heading for Swan River settlement in W ...Show more
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