Breaking the Sheep's Back: The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry (Prize Winner PM's shortlist 2012) by Charles Massy
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of the events that led to Australia's biggest industry disaster. Once a great nation-building icon, the wool business today is but a third of its size when Australia 'rode on the sheep's back'. Compared to the more recent Australian Wheat Board scandal, 40 t ...Show more
Women on the Warpath : Feminists of the First Wave by Dianne Davidson
$25.00 AUD
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Formed in 1909, the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia were prominent in the country's first wave of feminism. This history covers such topics as the conflicts between the various Guilds, the influence of theosophy, the newspaper Dawn, and the decline of the Guilds with the rise of the mor
The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
A Forester's Log - The Story of John la Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest, 1882-1897 by Angela Taylor
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint - the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generations of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest in the late-19th century. It provides an insight into a bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s.
Australian Sketches : Made on Tour by Harry Furniss
$135.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
The History of the British Convict Ship "Success" and its Most Notorious Prisoners
$140.00 AUD
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Glimpses of Australia : Souvenir for the United States Navy August-September, 1908
$50.00 AUD
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Alice on the Line by Doris Blackwell; Douglas Lockwood
$10.00 AUD
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The town that is Alice was a telegraph station when Doris Bradshaw Blackwell went there as a young girl in 1899...In this book with the collaboration of Territory author Douglas Lockwood, she has recapture the atmosphere of those early days - only thirty years after the construction of the O.T. line and ...Show more
BUSSELTON : "OUTSTATION ON THE VASSE" - 1830-1850 by RODGER JENNINGS
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS