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A Bunch of Strays A Bunch of Strays
Marie Mahood
ISBN: 1875998101
A Novel of the Outback. A love story and a border-war in the cattle country of the Kimberley's and Arnhem Land. Bush battlers with a hunger for land and freedom clash with government bureaucrats and poddy-dodgers.
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A Bushman Remembers A Bushman Remembers
James S. Mahoney
ISBN: 1876780258
Authentic, moving and funny memories of the way we used to live on our Australian farms before mechanisation, when horsepower still held sway. This is a wonderful collection of short pieces from The Land with historic photos from The Land's heritage collection.
$28.95

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A History of Emerald A History of Emerald
Marie Reid
ISBN: 1876780061
OUT OF PRINT

A social and economical history of the development of Emerald and the Central Queensland Highlands. This book features profiles of citizens of note and gives detailed accounts of the Fairbairn Dam as well as the surrounding gemfields and their communities.

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A Strong Song A Strong Song
Colin Macleod
ISBN: 1876780533
The saga of the tragic confrontation of the Pintubi People with the white invaders of Central Australia in the period 1920s-1970s. This is the heart-rending story of the children of mixed race who grew up in isolation, having lost their tribal spiritual traditions, but being regarded as second-class citizens by the whites. It explores the depths of despair and degradation, but, slowly, works its way towards hope and even triumph.
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After the Monsoon After the Monsoon
Ian Callinan
ISBN: 1876780614
After the Monsoon is a saga of adventure, travel and entrepreneurial business spanning the two world wars.
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All Your Gardening Questions Answered All Your Gardening Questions Answered
Tom Wyatt
ISBN: 1875998632
Back in print!  Tom Wyatt is a household name around much of Queensland. He has been giving practical gardening advice on ABC Radio to millions of Queenslanders for almost two decades, and this book provides the same easy-to-understand information about how to start and maintain your garden.  Full of tips and suggestions.  This is one of our most popular titles.
$29.95

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Another Era Another Era
Helen Arnaboldi
ISBN: 1876780738
This book in an inspiring account of the outback NSW and Queensland pioneers in merino sheep, the Mitchell family, from 1865 and especially of Jim Mitchell from 1897 to 1992.
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ANZAC Day on Mount Everest ANZAC Day on Mount Everest
Peter Maiden
ISBN: 1876780924

Australian Army Alpine Expedition Triumphs on Mount Everest.

 

When a catastrophic avalanche killed three of their party in 2001 the Australian Army Alpine expedition’s plan to conquer Everest teetered on the very brink of disaster.  As it became locked in a desperate life and death battle with the implacable mountain, the AAA team was unaware that back home an Army inquiry was already being established to investigate the expedition’s conduct.

 

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Appointment at Amalfi Appointment at Amalfi
Ian Callinan
ISBN: 1876780320
A Whodunnit by the Australlian Master of the genre, the Honourable Justice Ian Callinan. Intrigue and mystery to keep you guessing until the last page. A diabolic twist in the tail!
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Australian Cowboys, Roughriders and Rodeos Australian Cowboys, Roughriders and Rodeos
Jenny Hicks
ISBN: 1876780266
"This study of the long established roughriding/rodeo culture in Australia contains a treasure trove of folklore, anecdotes and facts about this popular bush sport" - Stockman's Hall of Fame
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Barefoot Through the Bindies Barefoot Through the Bindies
Marion Houldsworth
ISBN: 1876780185

Back in print! The 19 narrators of this fascinating book recall their pasts in rural Queensland.  Mothers who cooked on open fires using a camp oven to make 'damper'; evenings lit by candles and kerosene lamps rather than electricity; no kitchens, no bathrooms, and no toilets. This is a deeply moving book about the way Australia used to be.

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Battlers of the Barkly Battlers of the Barkly
Alf Chambers
ISBN: 1875998446
The saga of Eva Downs in the Northern Territory 1936-1960. The Chambers family was the first to successfully develop a cattle station in the Territory, with no modern technology and against big business interests.
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Before the Aeroplane Dance Before the Aeroplane Dance
Edwina Toohey
ISBN: 1875998942
Brilliant Evocation of the cultures of the Torres Strait Islanders and the kie dudai (Cape York) Aborigines are juxtaposed with exciting accounts of the early white adventurers and the following settlers. Clashes between indigenous people and white invaders are focused on the late 19th C.
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Best Stories Under the Sun Best Stories Under the Sun
Myers & Wilding
ISBN: 1876780584
OUT OF PRINT

Top Australian writers, winners of the Miles Franklin, Christina Stead, Steele Rudd, Australian-Vogel, Age Book of the Year and Commonwealth prizes, join with exciting young up-and-coming talent in this brilliant collection of 24 new stories, novel previews and restrospectives.

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Beyond The Legend Beyond The Legend
Noni Durack
ISBN: 187678072X
OUT OF PRINT

A Tragic Saga of the Kimberley by Noni Durack is a thought-provoking epitaph, half a hundred years on, to Kings in Grass Castles. It is a moving record of a vital turning point in pioneering history of the Kimberly region, where the human passions are as savage as the wilderness of the Kimberley.

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Bitten by the Bull Bug Bitten by the Bull Bug
Lennie Wallace
ISBN: 1875998241
A woman's life in the Cape York bush. Authentic and funny! Breeding bulls and kids on the peninsula. Coping with daily catastrophes and coming out laughing.
$23.95

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Blackguards and Scoundrels in Colonial Queensland Blackguards and Scoundrels in Colonial Queensland
Tony Matthews
ISBN: 1876780002
A sequel to the very successful Mayhem and Murder in Pioneering Queensland. The case histories of specific crimes and their legal persecution are evoked through scholarly research, but also with literary flair and intimate characterisation in a way that brings Queensland's social history one hundred years ago to a fascinating new life.
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Blood Stains the Wattle Blood Stains the Wattle
Keith De Lacy
ISBN: 1876780223
A moving love triangle set against the background of the 1964 Mount Isa miners' strike. Mix trade union politics with a ferocious miners' strike and you get a Molotov cocktail. Former Treasurer of Queensland, Keith De Lacy, has now created a uniquely Australian working class novel.
$25.95

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Boats in the Desert Boats in the Desert
Rex Ellis
ISBN: 1 87678098 2

Nowhere else in the world, except outback Australia, would these boat journeys be possible, and no-one else in  Australia except Rex Ellis operate them.

 

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Bow Waves in the Bull Dust Bow Waves in the Bull Dust
Lennie Wallace
ISBN: 1875998764
The Cape York stations were the heartland of small, family enterprises and were therefore very different from the vast stations in the Gulf and the NT. They populated the Peninsula enthusiastically with poddy calves, foals and babies and left their bush humour imprinted forever in the myths of the region.
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