| Author: | Marcia Langton |
| Category: |
Australiana |
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected Elder and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights i... read more
| Author: | Richard MacKay |
| Category: |
Local History |
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| Author: | Isabella Frances Cleugh |
| Category: |
Local History |
The author recalls her childhood in Walhalla, Victoria.
| Author: | JOHN ALDERSEA BARBAR |
| Category: |
Local History |
No Description
| Author: | Paoletti's Maps and Videos Pty Ltd (Illustrator, Editor, Produced by); Rudi Paoletti (Editor, Illustrator) |
| Category: |
Local History |
This publication is about the only marked grave at the Edward's Reef Burial Ground that of Christina Shaw.This is a diary written by Alec Shaw, Christina 's son and is an account of a fourteen-day journey made by Alec in 193... read more
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Category: |
Australiana |
Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy?s brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimin... read more
| Author: | Bill Gammage |
| Category: |
Australiana |
| Awards: | Winner of ACT Book of the Year Award 2012 and Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2012 and Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2012 and Queensland Literary Awards: University of Southern Queensland History Book Award 2012 and Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards, Individual Category 2011. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2013 and ABIA Australian General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2012. |
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has disco... read more
| Author: | Victor Steffensen |
| Category: |
Australiana |
| Awards: | |
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, includi... read more
