THE WOI WURRUNG NURSERY RHYME SERIES presents well loved nursery rhymes in English — and translated into the ancient Woi wurrung language of the Wurundjeri people. 5 Wayibu Dulum — 5 LITTLE DUCKS is translated by Wurundjeri elder, Aunty Gail Smith, with Tienna Smith’s illustrations.
AN ISLAND IN TIME, CASTELLORIZO IN PHOTOGRAPHS, 1890-1948 is a chronicle of over fifty dramatic years told through photographs. After researching archives and contacting families across the globe, the authors have gathered in one publication over 220 images which document a half century of a past community and culture. Castellorizo’s history, ......
The well-heeled residents and chic businesses that cram into today's Surry Hills are a far cry from the battlers, crime bosses and rag trade factories of old. Famed in books and condemned in municipal reports, Surry Hills began in convict times as the most popular address on Sydney's fringe.
Beautiful, intelligent, huge, Whales cast their spell over us, but remain a mystery. Wade Hughes is a writer, and an artist with the underwater camera, who with his wife Robyn has travelled the world, meeting whales. Amazing photos show whales being themselves in the moods, and phases of life, with evoking text. ENDORSED BY AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC
Glebe's history between the 18th and 21st centuries, illustrates its division by the stringent social, economic and religious stratification. Max Stollig writes engagingly about the iconic terrace houses, pubs and churches, coupled with local personalities and political debates.
Beautifully bound new edition of a famous colonial journal. The genteel yet candid observations of a brave wife and mother who joined in the founding of Melbourne 172 years ago. Edited for publication in 1934 by Georgianas grandon, the poet Hugh McCrae. An important heritage document but also a fine gift. Illustrated by the author.
Details a history of successes and achievements of the Chinese community of Sydney, along with injustices and pain - a history that belongs to more and more people as our Chinese population grows.
The final volume in Hugh Gilchrist's award-winning survey of all the connections between Greece and Australia. It covers the Greeks and Australians in World War II, and the post-War era of migration and diplomacy.
Most people think of Australia's convict past as decidedly English. Anne McMahon tells the story of the Irish prisoners roped into the British transportation scheme. Poverty, civil unrest and overcrowded prisons in Ireland from 1823 to 1837 led to thousands of men being sentenced to transportation to Australia. They were confined mainly to hulks ......
