The Australian Aboriginal by Herbert Basedow
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Australian Aboriginal, originally written in 1925, describes the ceremonial and day-to-day lives of traditional Aboriginal people, as witnessed by Herbert Basedow, who from 1903 travelled the most remote areas of Australia. This book is a reissued edition with a new forward by David M. Welch and man ...Show more
17 Years Wandering among the Aboriginals - Australian Aboriginal Culture Series No. 1 by James Morrrill; Eric Mjoberg (Photographer); David Welch (Editor)
$28.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian Aboriginal Culture Ser.
The extraordinary account of James Morrill, shipwrecked on a reef, life boats lost, and floating 42 days on a raft made from the ship's mast. A harrowing tale of how 7 of the 21 crew and passengers endured the raft journey to land, and Morrill became the sole survivor, living with the Australian Aborigi ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Telling: Stories of Resilience from Nairm Marr Djambana by Nairm Marr Djambana Aboriginal Corporation
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom through their knowledge. We are forever grateful.’ — Kutcha Edwards The 12 short life stories in Telling are gr ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
Finding Marjorie King: A daughter's journey to discover her mother's identity by Jennifer Durrant, Cheryl Rogers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Who was Marjorie King? Her daughter, Jennifer, needed to know. Why did her beautiful, funny, shy mother never speak about her past? Where was her Mum’s family? They were Jennifer’s family, too. A framed portrait revealed a stunning young Asian woman. But there were no images of Marjorie as a child. An ...Show more
Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: Truth by Marcia Langton, James Waghorne, Ross L Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Melbourne's oldest university confronts its long, complex and troubled relationship with the Indigenous people of Australia Dhoombak Goobgoowana acknowledges and publicly addresses the long, complex and troubled relationship between the Indigenous people of Australia and the University of Melbourne. It ...Show more
OUT OF THE DESERT by BULUGARDIE HONEY
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
Out of the Desert is a compelling collection of stories, art and photographs from the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert, in north western Australia. It tells of their remarkable exodus from remote desert country to an unfamiliar modern society. Within only one generation the Walmajarri desert ...Show more
You Call it Desert - We Used to Live There. by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This rare glimpse of life in the Great Sandy Desert exploresthe resourcefulness and ingenuity of the Walmajarri people, Australia s desert dwellers. A vibrant blend of personal recollection, history, Aboriginal art, and Australian indigenous studies, this survey will shed light on the lives of a scarcel ...Show more
Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788 by Bruce Elder
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Blood on the Wattle draws together most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people which has been recorded in books and journals.Blood on the Wattle draws together, in a single volume, most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people which has been recorded in books and ...Show more
Wise Women of the Dreamtime : Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers by K.Langloh Parker
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Extending deep into the caverns of humanity's oldest memories, beyond 60,000 years of history and into the Dreamtime, this collection of Australian Aboriginal myths has been passed down through the generations by tribal storytellers. The myths were compiled at the turn of the century by K. Langloh Parke ...Show more