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  • Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia

    Perspectives of Early Colonists

    by Fred Cahir, Ian Clark, Philip Clarke ...
    Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator–prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal colonists, especially in the south-east of Australia where Aboriginal culture was severely ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Australian War Graves Workers and World War One

    Devoted Labour for the Lost, the Unknown but not Forgotten Dead

    by Fred Cahir, Sara Weuffen, Matt Smith, Peter Bakker, Jo Caminiti ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War. It tells the story of the men of the Australian Graves Detachment and the Australian Graves Service who worked in the period 1919 to 1922 to ensure that grieving ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills

    Forgotten Narratives

    Edited by Ian Clark, Fred Cahir ...
    The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to which this affected the outcome of the expedition. The book offers a reinterpretation of the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • The Colony

    A history of early Sydney

    by Grace Karskens ...
    The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city.From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Grace Karskens skilfully reveals how landscape shaped the lives of the original ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Dark Emu

    Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • People of the River

    Lost worlds of early Australia

    by Grace Karskens ...
    A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.Winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Australian History 2021Winner of the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize 2021Co-winner of the Ernest Scott ... Read more

    $16.69 USD

  • Convincing Ground

    Learning to Fall in Love with your Country

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    Convincing Ground is a wide ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the more satanic furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Tasmanian Aborigines

    A history since 1803

    by Lyndall Ryan ...
    'Lyndall Ryan's new account of the extraordinary and dramatic story of the Tasmanian Aborigines is told with passion and eloquence. It is a book that will inform and move anyone with an interest in Australian history.' - Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania'A powerful and insightful historical account about a unique island and its First peoples, their dispossession and their struggle ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines

    by Mitchell Rolls, Murray Johnson ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    The Australian Aborigines first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago. They almost certainly landed on the northwest coast by sea from the nearby islands of the Indonesian archipelago. That first arrival may have been replicated many times over. The following exploration and settlement of a vast and varied continent was a venture of heroic proportions. The new settlers had reached ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Biggest Estate on Earth

    How Aborigines made Australia

    by Bill Gammage ...
    Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has ... Read more

    $17.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Time Dreaming

    Uncovering Ancient Australia

    by Billy Griffiths ...
    With a historian's inquiring mind, Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing twentieth century histories: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archeologists.Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution- the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • North of Capricorn

    The untold story of the people of Australia's north

    by Henry Reynolds ...
    'This scintillating account by Henry Reynolds, a revisionist history in its best sense, is a door opening wide onto [another Australia].'- Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian'Reynolds reveals yet another forgotten aspect of our shared history.' - The Age'This is a fine book, logically and convincingly argued.' - John Bailey, The Age'This comprehensive history will add a significant dimension to our ... Read more

    $13.79 USD