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Australian History

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  • At a Cost Quick View
    • At a Cost Quick View
    • Aboriginal History, Australian History, Autobiography, Aviation, Cattle, Central Australia, History
    • At a Cost

    • $45.00
    • As a child, Roy McFadyen was placed in Melbourne oprhanages for his parents' convenience. At 15, and in the middle of the Great Depression, he was thrown out of home by his mother into a freezing winter's night and made an epic bicycle ride into the Mallee to become a wheat farmer's labourer. Seeking further consolation in hard work well…
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  • The Biscuit Factory: Hidden history of Coromandel ValleyThe Biscuit Factory: Hidden history of Coromandel Valley Quick View
    • The Biscuit Factory: Hidden history of Coromandel ValleyThe Biscuit Factory: Hidden history of Coromandel Valley Quick View
    • Australian History, Biography, History, South Australia
    • The Biscuit Factory: Hidden history of Coromandel Valley

    • $25.00
    • Coromandel Valley resident Glynis Conlon spent many years meticulously researching the history of Alexander Murray's family and the origins of The Biscuit Factory ... the subject of her first book, to be released during May 2021 for History Month. For further information see: www.freestylepublications.com.au  
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  • BARBARA ROBERTSON: An Australian artist’s lifeBARBARA ROBERTSON: An Australian artist’s life Quick View
    • BARBARA ROBERTSON: An Australian artist’s lifeBARBARA ROBERTSON: An Australian artist’s life Quick View
    • Art, Australian History, Biography, South Australia
    • BARBARA ROBERTSON: An Australian artist’s life

    • $30.00
    • A tribute at last to an outstanding woman artist working from 1940s to 2000, this biography by Lorraine McLoughlin features many of Robertson’s works and a DVD containing a catalogue and interview with the Adelaide artist and teacher when she was in her mid-eighties and had retired to Carrickalinga.
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  • GEORGE TETLOW and MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art (inc. DVD)GEORGE TETLOW and MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art (inc. DVD) Quick View
    • GEORGE TETLOW and MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art (inc. DVD)GEORGE TETLOW and MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art (inc. DVD) Quick View
    • Art, Australian History, Biography, South Australia
    • GEORGE TETLOW and MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art (inc. DVD)

    • $30.00
    • In GEORGE TETLOW AND MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art, author Lorraine McLoughlin brings together the biographies and art works of three artists from the Yankalilla/ Normanville area on the Fleurieu Peninsula. The DVD includes interviews with George Tetlow in his studio and Mark and Jill Pearse in Bungala House.
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  • Remembering Adam Lindsay Gordon: An introduction to his poetical worksRemembering Adam Lindsay Gordon: An introduction to his poetical works Quick View
    • Remembering Adam Lindsay Gordon: An introduction to his poetical worksRemembering Adam Lindsay Gordon: An introduction to his poetical works Quick View
    • Australian History, Horse Racing, Poetry
    • Remembering Adam Lindsay Gordon: An introduction to his poetical works

    • $10.00
    • An introduction for secondary students to the poetical works of Australia's national poet - Adam Lindsay Gordon - to commemorate his life, 150 years after his tragic death on 24 June 1870. Included is a brief overview of his life plus nine of his well-known poems.
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  • Rider and Writer: The life of Lindsay (DVD) Quick View
    • Rider and Writer: The life of Lindsay (DVD) Quick View
    • Australian History, Biography, Horse Racing, Pastoralists
    • Rider and Writer: The life of Lindsay (DVD)

    • $22.00
    • by Brenton Manser & Rob Tremelling DVD $20.00
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  • Yami: the autobiography of Yami Lester Quick View
    • Yami: the autobiography of Yami Lester Quick View
    • Aboriginal History, Australian History, Autobiography, Central Australia
    • Yami: the autobiography of Yami Lester

    • $19.95
    • This is Yami Lester's story. From the heart of the Western Desert, Yami tells of his early years learning the country and the Law from the Ones Who Know. Of his years as a stockman, learnibng his trade on the vast, unfenced cattle stations of the Centre, and of his years living in the world of the white people.  
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  • The Versatile Man: The Life and Times of Don Ross Kaytetye Stockman Quick View
    • The Versatile Man: The Life and Times of Don Ross Kaytetye Stockman Quick View
    • Aboriginal History, Australian History, Cattle, Central Australia
    • The Versatile Man: The Life and Times of Don Ross Kaytetye Stockman

    • $24.95
    • 'They called me the versatile man,' Don Ross recalls. 'I put up windmilkls, fixed the trucks; I only had to see a thing done once and I could do it. That's how I was.' 'I've done some mongrel jobs,' he admits, and the worst? 'Shifting bloody c attle. Walking them when it's hot and there's a long way to go…
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  • The High and the Mighty: The Noel Buntine StoryThe High and the Mighty: The Noel Buntine Story Quick View
    • The High and the Mighty: The Noel Buntine StoryThe High and the Mighty: The Noel Buntine Story Quick View
    • Australian History, Biography, Cattle, Horse Racing, Pastoralists
    • The High and the Mighty: The Noel Buntine Story

    • $35.00
    • Starting out with one truck, named ‘The High and the Mighty’, Noel Buntine pioneered a new era in cattle transport in the Top End. Within 20 years, his enterprise, Buntine Roadways, was operating the largest cattle-carrying buyisiness ibn northern Australia. Noel’s honesty and fairness in dealings earned ghuim the accolades synonymous with the name of his first Mack truck. He…
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  • Remembering Comic CourtRemembering Comic Court Quick View
    • Remembering Comic CourtRemembering Comic Court Quick View
    • Australian History, Horse Racing, Uncategorized
    • Remembering Comic Court

    • $15.00
    • The record-breaking 1950 Melbourne Cup winning horse, Comic Court, and legendary trainer, the late Bart Cummings, were remembered during History Month, May 2018, in a photographic display at Normanville. Comic Court spent his first couple of formative years at the Bowyer brothers' Beau Neire Stud at Normanville. He was stabled, along with other horses, in a building which forms part…
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  • Gordon of Dingley Dell (2nd Ed)Gordon of Dingley Dell (2nd Ed) Quick View
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      Gordon of Dingley Dell (2nd Ed)Gordon of Dingley Dell (2nd Ed) Quick View
    • Australian History, Biography
    • Gordon of Dingley Dell (2nd Ed)

    • $38.50 $35.00
    • Gordon of Dingley Dell tells the remarkable story of a man who, despite numerous cruel blows dealt him throughout his life, retained his pride to the last. Adam Lindsay Gordon had a unique understanding of a horse, just as he was a unique poet. When he was astride a horse, the horse and rider became one.
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  • Gidgee and Grit: a history of Loves Creek Station and Ross River Homestead, Central AustraliaGidgee and Grit: a history of Loves Creek Station and Ross River Homestead, Central Australia Quick View
    • Gidgee and Grit: a history of Loves Creek Station and Ross River Homestead, Central AustraliaGidgee and Grit: a history of Loves Creek Station and Ross River Homestead, Central Australia Quick View
    • Aboriginal History, Australian History, Biography, Cattle, Central Australia, Horse Racing, Pastoralists, Tourist Attractions
    • Gidgee and Grit: a history of Loves Creek Station and Ross River Homestead, Central Australia

    • $30.00
    • Loves Creek Station is one of the earliest pastoral leases in Central Australia, and once covered near 4000 sq km. Gidgee and Grit traces the history of the region from geological beginnings and Aboriginal culture to the early explorers like John McDouall Stuart, and construction of the Overland Telegraph line. Also included is the story of the early pioneers like the…
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