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  • The Girl with No Name

    by Pat Lowe ...
    Set in the dramatic beauty of the Kimberley region, this is the poignant story of Matthew and his unusual friendship with an Aboriginal girl. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Girl From the Great Sandy Desert

    by Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe ...
    Illustrated by Mervyn Street ...
    LONGLISTED, 2016 CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, EVE POWNALL AWARD FOR INFORMATION BOOKS Beneath the hot, blue sky, Mana is joined by her brothers, sisters and cousins, as well as her many mothers and her favourite dogs. With wonderful wit, Mana recounts hunting, gathering, kinship, obligations and the never-ending search for water, all told through the eyes of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Desert: Jimmy Pike As a Boy

    Jimmy Pike As a Boy

    by Pat Lowe ...
    Jimmy Pike is one of Australia's most famous Aboriginal artists, represented in collections in all major Australian public galleries and museums. He grew up in the Great Sandy Desert during the 1940s and 1950s. This is his story as told by his lifetime partner, English-born Pat Lowe, who spent three years in the desert with him, and many more years listening to his stories. This remarkable and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hunters and Trackers of the Australian Desert

    by Pat Lowe ...
    Australian Aborigines are legendary hunters and trackers. However, few people have more than a sketchy idea of the skills they have to master from early childhood onwards. The people of the deserts that make up the centre of Australia adapted to one of the most marginal environments on earth, with no technology to assist them other than what they could make with their own hands. This book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Landmarks

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent'Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Among the Barons

    by Margaret Peterson Haddix ...
    Series series Shadow Children
    In this fourth installment of a series about a society that allows only two children per family, Luke Garner is finally adjusting to his new life at Hendricks School as Lee Grant. While the Grants belong to the highest class of society called the Barons, Luke avoids snobbish affectations and befriends his classmates, who are also illegal thirds. When the real Lee Grant's younger brother arrives at ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Old Ways

    A Journey on Foot

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Series Book 3 - Landscapes
    From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland, an exploration of walking and thinkingIn this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Ferals that Ate Australia: The fascinating history of feral animals and winner of a 2022 Whitley Award from the bestselling author of The Dogs that Made Australia

    by Guy Hull ...
    Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmareWinner of the 2022 Whitley Award, for a book about invasive species zoology.Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna. But a little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession and brought with it the foreign animals that now dominate the country's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wild Places

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Series Book 2 - Landscapes
    From The New York Times bestselling author of Is A River Alive and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." --Bill McKibbenWinner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book AwardAre there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Somewhere around the Corner

    by Jackie French ...
    Just shut your eyes and picture yourself walking around the corner. that's what my friend told me. Somewhere around the corner and you'll be safe. the demonstration was wild, out of control. Barbara was scared. She saw the policeman running towards her. She needed to escape. She closed her eyes and did precisely that: she walked somewhere around the corner - to another demonstration - to another ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Blinky Bill

    by Dorothy Wall ...
    With a fresh newly designed cover, Australia's favourite koala returns to delight old and new readers alike.The Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill combines in one edition Dorothy Wall's much-loved classics, Blinky Bill (1933), Blinky Bill Grows Up (1934) and Blinky Bill and Nutsy (1937).Blinky Bill is the quintessential larrikin. With enthusiastic pleasure, this headstrong and impudent little ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • THE YOWIE

    In Search of Australia's Bigfoot

    by Tony Healy, Paul Cropper ...
    During the early colonial era, Australia’s Aborigines often warned British settlers to beware of huge, ape-like creatures that lurked in the rugged mountains and deep forests of the island continent. Their people, they said, had been encountering the hairy horrors since time immemorial. They knew them by many names, including doolagarl, thoolagarl, jurrawarra, and tjangara.Soon the colonists, too, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD