Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more
Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs by Georgia Curran (Editor); Linda Barwick (Editor); Nicolas Peterson (Editor); Valerie Napaljarri Martin (Editor); Simon Japangardi Fisher (Editor)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts Ser.
Warlpiri songs hold together the ceremonies that structure and bind social relationships, and encode detailed information about Warlpiri country, cosmology and kinship. Today, only a small group of the oldest generations has full knowledge of ceremonial songs and their associated meanings, and there is ...Show more
Fight for Liberty and Freedom The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism by John Maynard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s which culminated in the famous Aboriginal tent embassy in 1972.Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the ...Show more
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderati ...Show more