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Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Henry Reynolds
$22.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Raised by missionaries, Jimmie Blacksmith, a young half-castle Aboriginal man, is poignantly caught between the ways of his black forefathers and those of the white society to which he aspires. Exploited by his boss and betrayed by his [white] wife, he declares war on his white employers and goes on a v ...Show more
Come in Spinner by D Cusack, F James
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Australian Classics
Come in Spinner, a collaboration with Florence James, was an immediate sensation when it was first published in an abridged edition in 1951. (The complete edition was published by A&R in the 1980s.) Set in a beauty salon at the Hotel South Pacific in wartime Sydney, it revolves around the lives and ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$16.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Islands of Angry Ghosts: The Story of Batavia, Australia's Bloodiest Mutiny by Hugh Edwards
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
New edition. In 1629 the Dutch East India merchantman, the Batavia was wrecked off the coast of West Australia while on a voyage to Indonesia. What followed this disaster is a harrowing tale of desertion, betrayal and murder. This updated edition includes new photographs. A replica of the Batavia is in ...Show more
Mulga Bills Bicycle 50th Anniversary HB Edition by Deborah Niland (Illustrator); Kilmeny Niland (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Celebrating 50 years in print, this is a new edition of the classic children's poem by Australia's favourite poet, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson. Mulga Bill's Bicycle was written by Banjo Paterson in 1896. It was written at a time when cycling was a relatively new and popular social activity. Cycles were ridden ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...Show more
The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Australian Classics
The year 1788: the very beginning of European settlement. These were times of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all, they were times of conflict between the Aborigines and the white settlers. Eleanor Dark brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and conciliation amid the brutality an ...Show more
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