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If you have an interest in Australian Aboriginal culture you will want to have this map. The map presents work carried out for the Encylopaedia of Aboriginal Australia between 1988 and 1994. Using the published resources available at that time, the map attempts to represent all the language or tribal or nation groups of the Indigenous people of Australia. Use the map as a teaching aid or to increase your own knowledge. The map is approx. 594mm x 841mm (23" x 33") in size. It is folded. Price:
Authors Janusz B. Kreczmanski & Margo Birnberg - Hard cover - 442 pages Aboriginal Artists Dictionary is a meticulously researched biographical dictionary containing more than a thousand entries. The book includes a brief biography and relevant exhibition entries for artists who painted from the beginning of the 1970s to the first decade of the 21st century. Aboriginal Artists Dictionary is lavishly illustrated with portraits of the artists and examples of their work. The book contains many fine photographs of different desert environments; this enables the reader to view the awesome landscapes, which inspired the desert artists. Communities included in this Dictionary of Biographies are from the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia (Kimberley Region). Price:
Author Geoffrey Bardon - Paperback - 140 pages Printed in China The Papunya painting movement, born in the western desert of Northern Australia, is now one of the wonders of the modern art world - but its story is not well known. This book goes some way to telling that story. Price:
Edited by Rhonda Craven - Paperback - 298 pages Printed in Australia 'Teaching Aboriginal Studies' is a resource for teacher education and a practical guide for both new and experienced teachers in primary and secondary schools. The book uses a wide range of primary teaching sources including poetry, oral histories, newspaper articles and government publications. The text is illustrated throughout with photographs, paintings, prints and cartoons. Click on the "Detail" button near the price for more information. Price:
Edited by Philip Edwards - Paperback - 646 pages - Non-Fiction First published in 1955- 67 this edition published in 2003 Printed in England These Journals record the historic meeting between two worlds as Europe's greatest navigator made the first contact with many of the peoples of the Pacific. This edition, abridged from the Hakluyt Society's definitive four-volume collection and preserving Cook's idiosyncratic spelling, makes this inimitable personal account of his nine years of voyaging accessible to the general reader. Philip Edwards provides an introduction to each voyage and a postscript on the controversy surrounding Cook's death. 1 copy currently in stock. Price:
Author David Hill - Paperback - 341 pages - History - Printed in Australia - First published in 2008 - this edition 2009 Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Eleven of the tiniest ships sailed for eight months over the roughest seas, carrying fifteen hundred people, food for two years and all the equipment needed to build a colony of convicts in a land completely beyond their experience and imagination. The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet - the biggest single overseas migration the world had ever seen. Using diaries, letters and official records, David Hill artfully reconstructs the experiences of these famous and infamous men and women of history, combining narrative skill with an eye for detail and an exceptional empathy with the people of the past. 1788 by the best selling author of The Forgotten Children. 'Brings to life the events and major characters of this extraordinary journey' Sydney Morning Herald '1788 is a must for your bookshelf ... This is the best book I have read all year' News Mail Click on the "Detail" button near the price for more information. Price:
Author Manning Clark - Abridged by Michael Cathcart - Hard cover - 626 pages 'My hope then and now was that a history of Australia could have the same effect on the soul of its readers as did music on the soul of Saul. A story about the past, if well told, could take readers up into the high mountains from where they would see, as it were, all the kingdoms of the world, be aware of the field of the possible in human affairs, and might even catch a glimpse of the direction of the great river of life.' Manning Clark. Only 2 of this limited edition in stock. Was $95.50, now $47.75save 50%! Be quick, limited stock, limited time! Price:
Author Jill B. Bruce Illustrated by Jan Wade - Paperback - 32 Pages The Australian Commonwealth and its States and Territories have colourful and interesting flags, historic coats of arms and beautiful animal, bird and flower emblems. This book has detailed information about them all with each beautifully illustrated in glorious colour. No other book of this kind has been published recently. Click on the "Detail" button near the price for more information. Price:
Author Nanette Mantle - Hard Cover - 307 pages The Australian stockman is a genus per se and is the only thing that has a remote resemblance to Nationality in this country...mounted on active bony cossack looking horses galloping to and fro and cracking immense long whips as they drive along a herd of cattle' Charles James Griffith, 1840. We currently have 2 copies in stock. Was $49.95, now $24.95 save 50%! Be quick, limited stock, limited time! Price:
Illustrated by Annette Macarthur-Onslow - Paperback - 28 Pages Printed in Hong Kong "There was a movement at the station, for the word had passed around ...". We have all heard those words, but do you know all the words to Banjo Paterson's 'The Man from Snowy River'? Have you ever thought of reading it to your children - this book will have you and the children mesmorised by the story of the colt from Old Regret who got away. Click on the "Detail" button near the price for more information. Only 1 left in stock. Price:
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