- 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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- 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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- Aboriginal History, Art, Biography, Central Australia
The Town Grew Up Dancing: the life and art of Wenten Rubuntja
- $59.95
- A nephew of Albert Namatjira, Wenten was encouraged by him to paint when he was a young man. An Arrernte man who has made a major contribution to the art and politics of his time, Wenten was a key figure in the land rights movement in Central Australia in the mid-1970s and has since played a lively and formative role…
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- 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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- Australian History, Cattle, Central Australia, Horse Racing, Pastoralists
Bulldust and Bough Shades (1st Ed)
- $10.00
- by Lorraine Day (formerly Lorraine Dale) 52 pages Paperback
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