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Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860s-1930s
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Our Price: AU$39.95
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Between 1870-1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. This book is a pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport. Contains a biographical listing of more than 1200 of these men ...
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1913
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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The Australian Pastoral Directory 1913 lists approximately 231 pages of stockowners in all States of Australia.
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1923
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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The Australian Pastoral Directory 1923 lists approximately 23,000 stockowners in all States of Australia.
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1925
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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The Australian Pastoral Directory 1925 lists approximately 24,000 stockowners in all States of Australia.
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1931
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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A valuable source of information for those with ancestors who were on the land and owned stock. This book lists stockowners in all states of Australia as at 1931 ...
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1939
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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A valuable source of information for those with ancestors who were on the land and owned stock. This book lists stockowners in all states of Australia as at 1939 ...
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1954
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Our Price: AU$29.50
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In 1954 there were tens of thousands of stockowners throughout Australia. This 600 page volume lists most of them ...
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Australian Pastoral Directory Compendium 3
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Price if purchased separately AU$205.00
Compendium set price AU$79.50
You save AU$125.50!
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This compendium set contains complete copies of the Australia Pastoral Directories for the years 1913, 1923, 1925, 1931, 1939 and 1954 ...
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Australian Tractors: Indigenous Tractors and Self-Propelled Machines in Rural Australia
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Our Price: AU$29.95
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Australia has some of the world's largest and most labour-efficient farms, and tractors are an essential part of their operations. The average Australian farm has three or more ...
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Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Cattlemen
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Our Price: AU$27.95
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A highly original study of a unique Australian way of life. This major social history tells the story of Australia's cattle industry from the point of view of those who work on the stations, farms, and in the camps ...
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Camels and the Outback
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Our Price: AU$30.00
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In 'Camels and the Outback' H.M. Barker gives a fascinating account of the years that he spent s a camel driver in remote areas of Australia. In his lively anecdotes he introduces the reader to a number of unforgettable characters ...
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Cook's Interstate Business Directory 1937
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Our Price: AU$29.50
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Contains has separate business directories for Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia in 1937, all bound into the one book.
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Core of My Heart, My Country: Women's Sense of Place and the Land in Australia and Canada
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Our Price: AU$29.95
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When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd landed, she was one of the many women who literally ...
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Droving Days
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Our Price: AU$16.50
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A history of droving and stories of the famous drovers.
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Great Pioneer Women of the Outback
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Our Price: AU$32.95
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'Great Pioneer Women of the Outback' profiles ten female pioneers, from Jeannie Gunn, author of 'We of the Never-Never', to equally remarkable but lesser known women ...
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Horse and Rider in Australian Legend
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Our Price: AU$49.95
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'In headlong gallop through brake and brushwood, over broken ground and fallen timber, after stragglers that often turn fiercely to bay ... horse and rider are expert at their work ...
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Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The Story of Tom Kruse
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Our Price: AU$24.95
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The Birdsville Track is one of the best know - and loneliest - tracks in Australia, and for twenty years Tom Kruse was the mailman, battling the searing ...
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New Chum in the Queensland Bush
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List Price AU$23.50
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Written in 1887 by Walter S.S. Tyrwhitt, it is ... 'mainly an account of the author's personal experiences in Queensland, and he ventures to hope that as it deals with the every-day life of a Colonist in the Bush ...
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Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga
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Our Price: AU$32.95
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In the cities and in the countryside of Australia, the Great War of 1914-1918 marched to somewhat different tempos. The author evokes the wartime experience of all rural Australians by ...
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Stations on the Track: Selected New South Wales Country Railway Stations, An Historical Overview
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Our Price: AU$50.00
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An evocative insight into the history of a selection of NSW country railway stations and the development of the lines leading to them. The book is generously illustrated with early ...
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The Dog Fence
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Our Price: AU$24.00
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At 5400 kilometres, the Dog Fence is one of the longest man-made structures on Earth. It slices across Australia's desert heart, dividing the continent to keep dingoes away from livestock. ...
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The Wild West in Austalia and America Volume 1
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Our Price: AU$29.95
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Both the Australian Outback and the American Wild West were equally rich in rip-roaring, wild and woolly
time. Drake tells true stories about the the cattle kings and land barons, shoot-outs, mounted police and ...
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Where the Dead Men Lie: Tales of Graves, Pioneers and Old Bush Pubs
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Our Price: AU$27.95
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Discover the stories behind the tragic, and often untimely, deaths of our early pioneers in the bush. Retired drover and bush poet Bruce Simpson travels along ...
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Where the Dead Men Lie: Tales of Graves, Pioneers and Old Bush Pubs
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Our Price: AU$24.95
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Discover the stories behind the tragic, and often untimely, deaths of our early pioneers in the bush. Retired drover and bush poet Bruce Simpson travels along ...
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Where the Outback Drovers Ride: Stories, Poems and Yarns from the Bush
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Our Price: AU$35.00
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In the first half of the 20th century, packhorse drovers - following in the footsteps of the early overlanders - took on the challenge of moving enormous numbers ...
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Women on the Land: The Hidden Heart of Rural Australia
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Our Price: AU$34.95
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Farm women are emerging from the shadows from the first time in Australia's history. No longer content to be ignored, they are forming lobby groups, targeting politicians and ...
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