Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In this bestselling book master story-teller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on an absorbing guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I, Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on lan ...Show more
Dupain's Beaches by Max Dupain; Jill White (Compiled by); Matthew Cawood (Text by)
69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Max Dupain, who took Australia's most famous photograph, Sunbaker, loved the beach. This collection of Dupain's photographs is, by his own admission, among his 'best work'. In it we see Dupain's fascination with shadows, with sand patterns, with the arcs of seascape - and above all, with the people who ...Show more
City of Shadows - Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948 by Peter Doyle; Caleb Williams
65.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In the late 1980s a vast collection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960, was rescued by the Historic Houses Trust from a flooded warehouse. This book draws on Peter Doyles extensive research into these fascinating and often eerily beautiful images o ...Show more
The Tyranny Of Distance by Geoffrey Blainey
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
"The Tyranny of Distance is the classic account of how Australia's geographical remoteness has been central to shaping our history and identity - and how it will continue to form our future. As well as being hailed as a work of enduring scholarship, The Tyranny of Distance brings our history to life. Ge ...Show more
Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney by John Birmingham
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.'Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow hi ...Show more