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Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's work ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$49.95 AUD
Category: Audio
While most Australians live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land – a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers. ‘How to sum up this story? It’ ...Show more
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious) by Don Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Kids/Teen Non-Fiction/Activity
A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are - and who we are likely to become. Don Watson's The Story of Australia is a modern history of our nation that integrates new understandings about Ind ...Show more
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