Iconic Melbourne by Mark Rusic (Original Author, Artist, Photographer, Text by, Prepared for Publication by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Iconic Melbourne Australian showcases more than 20 of Melbourne's finest locations utilising artist, Mark Rusic's own original collection of paintings, poetry and photography, to present Melbourne in a most unique, dynamic and fresh way. What sets Iconic Melbourne Australia apart is not only how we lea ...Show more
Aussie Slang Down Under by Diane McInnes
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This book is chockers with colourful Australian slang. This unique dialect is widely spoken across Australia and manifests experiences from the country's broad history. From borrowing Aboriginal words, through convict roots, the gold rush and bush ranging years to the First World War, these words have e ...Show more
Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by Deborah Burrows
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From the First Nation caregivers who healed, birthed and nursed for millennia to the untrained and ill-equipped convict men and women who cared for the sick in the fledgling colony of New South Wales, nursing has been practised in Australia since the beginning. It would take the arrival of a group of de ...Show more
Remembering Georges Stories from Melbourne's Most Elegant Store by Annette Cooper
$89.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Georges closed its doors on 5 October 1995, it had been trading for 115 years. Yet this famous department store, situated in the 'Paris End' of Collins Street, still lingers in the minds of many today. Remembering Georges documents the memories of staff and clients before this living connection fad ...Show more
Mullet : A Celebration of the classic hairstyle by Isabella Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Who doesn't love a mullet? (The hairstyle, not the fish.) All right, not everyone does - but we all like to have an opinion about mullets. The mullet can be found throughout Australia, in cities, towns and out bush, on men, women and children. Mullet is a collection of photographs that celebrate the glo ...Show more
Chasing the Light: Australia Wide by Ken Duncan
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
KEN DUNCAN's new book, "Chasing the Light - AUSTRALIA WIDE" features his latest images from all over Australia, along with a few timeless classics. The book invites the reader to join Ken on a very personal journey to many favourite corners of our diverse island continent. Ken's expansive "panographs" c ...Show more
Where History Happened: The Hidden Past of Australia's Towns and Places by Peter Spearritt
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Where History Happened' reveals the hidden past of some of Australia's most intriguing towns and places, from mining settlements and whaling stations to monuments and historic houses in our capital cities. The stories that emerge, of remote religious communities, isolated penal colonies, places of Indig ...Show more
Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market by Webster Tim
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
This illustrated anthology of the oral histories of the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne takes you behind the counters to reveal intimate views of the market's unique way of life. Drawn from more than a hundred and eighty interviews, and featuring beautiful and atmospheric photography throughout, Melb ...Show more
Back Roads #2: The Scenic Route by Heather Ewart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia's inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV's Back Roads has taken us across Australia, through scorched deserts, along sapphire coasts, up breathtaking mountains and over gentle, roll ...Show more
Nganga: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Words and Phrases by Aunty Fay Muir; Sue Lawson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Nganga (ng gar na): To see and understand. Aunty, Uncle, sorry business, deadly, women’s business, marngrook, dreamtime, Elders, songlines. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words have become part of our everyday vocabulary but we may not know their true meaning or where the words come from. In Ngan ...Show more
Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story by Banjo Woorunmurra, Howard Pedersen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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Melbourne Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Remember dropping into the Coles Cafeteria on Bourke Street for a feast of rashers, sausages and mash, with gravy, from the bain marie? Or catching a 'red rattler' into the city? Eating a hot jam doughnut from the American Doughnut Kitchen van at the Queen Vic markets? If you answered yes to any of thes ...Show more