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There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Australian
A delightful new twist on an old tale! There was an old sailor who swallowed a krill. I don't know why he swallowed the krill - it'll make him ill ... A nautical take on a much-loved rhyme.
They Came to Australia - Explorers Before European Settlement by Joel Weston
$24.95 AUD
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Australian Geographic History
A new series about early Australian history, written specifically with the new Australian History Curriculum in mind. The stories of the many European explorers - Tasman, Hartog, Cook and more - whose voyages brought them to the Australian continent before 1788. Learn what motivated them, and how they m ...Show more
Tom the Outback Mailman by Kristin Weidenbach
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Lothian Australian Favourites
Tom Kruse was a real Australian hero. He delivered the mail to outback stations and towns all along the Birdsville Track. It was a tough job, but Tom was even tougher, making sure that the mail got through no matter what. Based on her bestselling book, MAILMAN OF THE BIRDSVILLE TRACK, Kristin Weidenbach ...Show more
Trump in Asia : Australian Foreign Affairs issue 2 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
'We've hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking.' MICHAEL WESLEY The second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States' sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides insights into Do ...Show more
Tyenna: Through My Eyes (Australian Disaster Zones) by Julie Hunt, Terry Whitebeach
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones
An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye ...Show more
Vagabond Papers by John Stanley James
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History
Australian life has never had a chronicler quite like the Vagabond. Renowned as journalist and 'eminently unconventional character', he suffered extremes of poverty and prosperity. These enabled him to record first-hand experiences revealing the degradation of life in the festering slums of the Victoria ...Show more
Vietnam (My Australian Story) by Deborah Challinor
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story
Here we are, fighting alongside the so-called mightiest nation on earth with all the firepower you could ask forjets, B52s, tanks, gunships, rockets, napalm, you name itand the VC are creeping around with a rifle each and we still can't beat the buggers! And it's getting worse, not better. It's 1969. Th ...Show more
Vincent and the Grandest Hotel on Earth by Lisa Nicol
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: Australian
Vincent is an ordinary boy - he lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary town. But Vincent's life changes dramatically when he meets young Florence from The Grandest Hotel on Earth. From shining shoes next to a dirty train station, to working in a hotel where your wildest dreams can come true, Vincent ...Show more
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to 'The Electric, 1960', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled lik ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
This ballad of the sheep-stealing swagman is known the world over. Here, with 'Banjo' Paterson's original lyrics and Freya Blackwood's stunning ochre-toned paintings, we are treated not just to the swagman's story, but to the story of the shearers' strikes of the time, of the squatter's family, and of t ...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
Who Am I? (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story
I woke up this morning and I couldn't stop crying, cos this place is not my home, even though everyone says it is. When I was a little girl Mum would always hug me when I cried and tell me everything would be all right. Who's gunna hug me here? Mary lives with the Burkes, but they're not her real family ...Show more