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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Ninu Grandmothers' Law ' This is my knowledge. It has been handed down to me from my grandmothers and grandfathers, my mothers and my fathers. I am sharing it with you because I want people to know about my life.'Ninu Grandmothers' Law is a definitive account of a traditional... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Boy's Life Age range 12 to 17Autobiographical study by a celebrated Aboriginal poet and playwright, who writes of his boyhood in the south-west of Western Australia during the depression years of the 1920s and 30s. Written with humour and compassion, this book... RRP: $19.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Battarbee and Namatjira Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their... RRP: $32.95 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Land I Came Through Last The title of Robert Gray's autobiography is drawn from a poem by the famous Australian poet Christopher Brennan, 'The land I came thro' last was dumb with night / a limbo of defeated glory, a ghost'. There is more glory than defeat in this work, though,... RRP: $34.95 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Started Out Just Drinking Beer THE RIOTOUS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S GREATEST BANDS FROM 1976-2019.A superbly researched and written account of one of Australia's most popular bands, with unfettered access to all the key players, and a defacto social history of a time... RRP: $36.95 $36.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cathy Goes to Canberra Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 'I Wonder' Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach - summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' - won him a large... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Geoffrey Blainey Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's greatest livinghistorian, a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about thecountry's past as The Tyranny of Distanceand Triumph of the Nomads.However, Blainey has also been a... RRP: $34.95 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Maestro John Monash Who was the most innovative general of World War One? For Tim Fischer, the answer has to be Australia's 'Maestro' John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper due.Fischer... RRP: $32.99 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: the Twentieth Century 1912-2000 Though there exist many biographical dictionaries of the achievements of Chinese people throughout history, few women feature. Since the mid-1980s, researchers from the University of Sydney's Department of Chinese Studies have been collecting the life... RRP: $65.00 $63.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Imago Biographer Suzanne Falkiner presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped his later years as a novelist.Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge... RRP: $49.95 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Changing Altitudes In the early years of the Second World War, Australian women began lobbying to contribute to the nation’s wartime effort. From 1940, women were signing up to serve in the Royal Australian Nursing Service, and in 1941, an Auxiliary arm of the Royal... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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