These 20 stories, illustrated with traditional Aboriginal drawings, are topical and satirical pieces, giving an insider's view to a strange and all-embracing ancient culture. B&w illustrations
A full-colour large format book containing 36 of Banjo’s best poems including first publication of a lost poem – The Flying Ford, but also many fascinating photographs, cartoons, sketches and front pages from early newspapers. The life of AB Paterson is cleverly interwoven with the poems, chronicles Banjo’s life, the influences upon his work, and ......
These simple sketches of Territory life centre around the young Aboriginal girl Bett-Bett (Dolly Bonson) and her dog Sue; as she appears from the Never- Never, stays awhile, learns a little, laughs a lot, wonders much, and finally returns to the bush again. This early tale of life in the Northern Territory was first published in 1905, and was ......
George Ernest Morrison, better known as "Morrison of Peking" was an Australian journalist of international standing. At the age of 18, in 1880 he began a series of Long Walks around Australia - this is the first one - 1200 kilometres from Queenscliff in Victoria to Adelaide. The first in a series of 6, this one introduced by Alan Ventress.
The second book from The Lost Wines Degustation Society: A Postcard from the Pyrenees “is many things. It is a celebration. A celebration of the achievements of those who came before us; their good taste and their appreciation of the finer things that matter. It is a commiseration; a sadness that only a small sample of that which came before ......
The Postcard from Madeira read; “When all is lost Far out at sea Reach for a Madiera.” It was written in sparkling gold “Texta” and posted to Mathew & Flinders Wine Merchants, Victoria by Georgia Best (attorney at law.)
Joe Thompson was born in the small mining town of Minmi, north of Newcastle in 1889. This book follows his life there as a Pupil Teacher, to the Balmain area, where he played soccer for both Balmain and New South Wales, to a role as an instructor with the fledgling Royal Australian Navy.
The Mango Tree is an evocative journey into a long-lost Australian childhood, and won the Miles Franklin award in 1974. It is a novel about a young man growing up in a country town in the early years of the 20th century which, like a faded letter from a forgotten lover, evokes bitter-sweet memories of the dream-days of youth in a world long past.
'...distant hooves beat time with the name. Nick Nick Nicholas Nick, they cantered. A melody began that danced along on the magical words...' It's 1960 in an Australian country town - a time well before smartphones and social media. Fourteen-year-old Sandra, a shy but ambitious piano student, is on a journey of discovery. She's secretly in love ......
