Ion Idriess draws on his childhood memories to describe the rise of the mines in this, the best history of Broken Hill and surrounds in the NSW Central West.
"In Crocodile Land" is principally the story of travels by lugger through northern waters and into slimy creeks where the huge crocodiles abound. The author took part in many hunting expeditions and enlightens us on the various methods adopted for catching these fearsome creatures… We journey next into the country of the buffaloes. Here on sunlit ......
Louisa Scobie was the sixth daughter of a prominent Maitland agricultural family who became Matron of Crown Street Women’s Hospital in 1913. The following she left for Egypt with the first group of Australian nurses, working in the field throughout the war. This book looks at the role nurses played in the dreadful theatres of war at Gallipoli, ......
I have read your book with a great deal of satisfaction, and I must congratulate you on having rendered a great service in the cause of Truth and Justice… You are the only author who has the courage to do justice to the Kelly Gang; you have liberated the truth, so long supressed, regarding the policy and administration of the police; through your ......
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 ......
At the height of his national success, Idriess wrote 9 articles for the new national magazine Walkabout (from 1934-38) which presage his future books. At this stage places like the Torres Strait, the Kimbereley, Darwin, and the Northern Territory were the final frontiers for most Australians. This is the first time they are collected, along with ......
Graeme Blundell introduces Kershaw’s “delightful and witty memoir Heydays, a personal record of cultural Melbourne in the thirties and forties. And the pages that follow display a account of the bohemia of his youth and tribute to such friends and mentors as the “exuberant” Max Harris, Adrian Lawlor, whose unique character defied description, and ......
The True Story of the Kelly Gang of Bushrangers, published in 1900, was a highly researched biography of the notorious 19th-century Victorian family of bushrangers. Chomley wrote the biography using court documents, police records and court evidence.] It is recognised as being one of the most accurate depictions of the story of Ned Kelly, ......
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.
