Alice on the Line
by Doris Blackwell and Douglas Lockwood
The town that is Alice was a telegraph station when Doris Bradshaw Blackwell went there as a young girl in 1899…..In this book with the collaboration of Territory author Douglas Lockwood, she has recapture the atmosphere of those early days - only thirty years after the construction of the O.T. line and forty years after John McDouall Stuart first crossed the continent from south to north. The personal story of life at The Alice at the turn of the century is not only a book of great historical interest, it reflects a deep love for the country and its people. ISBN: 1864367598 $19.95 Paperback
A Son of the Red Centre
by Kurt G. Johannsen (edited by Daphne Palmer)
Memoirs and anecdotes of the life of Kurt Johannsen, a road train pioneer and bush inventor of the Northern Territory of Australia. A man of many parts; miner, inventor, aviator and mechanic extraordinaire; read Kurt’s fascinating life story as told by himself. ISBN: 0646133047 $27.95 Paperback
A Town Like Alice
by Neville Shute
Jean Paget has survived World War 2 as a prisoner of the Japanese in Malaya. After the war she comes into an inheritance that enables her to return to Malaya to repay the villagers who helped her survive; she also discovers that an Australian soldier she thought had died, has survived. She goes to Australia in search of him and of the town he described to her. ISBN: 1842323008 $19.95 Paperback
Beyond Matilda
by B. J. Pettit
After Vietnam they called him a loser - until someone started stealing his cattle. ISBN: 0968127339 $15.95 Paperback
Buffaloes: Adventures in Arnhem Land
By Carl Warburton
(3rd Edition edited and introduced by David Andrew Roberts and Adrian Parker) In the 1920’s, Kakadu in Australia’s Top End was the domain of the buffalo-shooter. These frontiersmen came to the north seeking adventures and fortune beyond the borders of white settlement, in a land that was wild, hostile and still governed by its traditional Aboriginal owners – the Gagudju. Originally published in 1934, Carl Warburton’s Buffaloes is a memoir of the exploits of two ex-Gallipoli veterans who, unable to return to an ordinary life at home, journeyed north to procure buffalo hides from the wetlands and plains of what is now Kakadu National Park. This is a laconic and engaging story of ‘mad adventure’, mateship and survival that captures the high action and extreme dangers of shooting buffalo from horseback. A classic example of early twentieth-century Australian frontier literature, Buffaloes takes us to the fringes of the Northern Territory economy and into the zone of contact between white and black Australians. It offers a valuable account of an Aboriginal society in a state of transition, and expresses the dreams and delusions of those white pioneers who sought to exploit and domesticate Australia’s last frontier. ISBN: 9780977511419 $22.95 Paperback
Big Run, The
by Jock Makin
The fascinating story of Victoria River Downs Station in the Northern Territory, from the early white explorers who battled the vastness of the environment to the present day. This book captures the spirit of what was once the world’s largest cattle run and this updated edition incorporates the recent history of ‘The Big Run’ under its present management. ISBN: 9781876622008 $26.95 Paperback
Cattle Duffers of the Outback by Frances Boyle The shocking true story. In the world of cattle duffing, the branding iron gives way to the gun. “These days, when the men are out mustering until well after dark and I am home alone cooking dinner, I have every light on inside and outside the house. As I walk from room to room, I carry my rifle with me. So much has happened over the past six years that now all I feel is a strange coldness deep inside me. I know that if someone was to come into my house yard and up the steps, and if I do not know them, I will shoot to kill”. This is an engrossing tale of mayhem, villainy and pillage. What is most shocking about this book is that it is not fiction. It is the story of one family’s struggle for survival on a cattle station in far north Queensland. The chronicle – a relentless unfolding of events over six years – tells of cattle duffing, organised harassment, victimisation, arson, corruption in local and state politics, and bent police. ISBN: 1876622458 $22.95 Paperback
Crossing the Dead Heart
by Cecil Madigan
A true story of one of the epic adventures of desert exploration. In 1939 Dr. Cecil Madigan led his party of nine men and nineteen camels into the trackless and waterless Simpson Desert on an exciting mission never before attempted. This is a great Australian story of enterprise, scientific investigation, determination and human courage. ISBN: 1876247037 $11.95 Paperback
Dune is a Four-letter Word
by Griselda Sprigg with rod Maclean
Dune is a four-letter word describes the Spriggs' pioneering adventures-not only in the Simpson Desert but across the vast Australian outback, as the family joined Reg in his relentless geological explorations, Griselda Sprigg tells a story of true love, a heart-warming tale of a family working together, and a humorous, earthy yarn about the bush and its characters. ISBN: 1862545405 $27.50 Paperback
Ghan, The Australia's Grand Rail Journey
by Ian Grady Photography Don Fuchs
Welcome aboard one of THE great train journeys of the world. Beginning in Adelaide you'll embark on the trip of your life, visiting all the attractions of the red Centre and the Top End. We'll guide you through some of the most visually stunning landscapes you're ever likely to see: Lake Eyre; Flinders Ranges; Macdonnell Ranges; Uluru and Kata Tjuta; Devils Marbles; Chambers Pillar; Katherine Gorge; Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks... to name just a few. ISBN: 9780980371604 $45.00 Hardback
Great Flying Doctor Stories
by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh
This collection of stories comes directly from many of our unsung heroes via Bill Marsh who, in turn, sings their songs and writes their stories in a true Australian voice. ISBN: 097514670X $24.95 Paperback
Indomitable Miss Pink
by Julie Marcus
Olive Pink was an unconventional anthropologist, an advocate of Aboriginal rights and an early proponent of the cultivation of Australian indigenous plants. Born in Hobart, she moved to Sydney in 1914 and travelled extensively in central Australia, lived in remote areas with the Arrernte and Warlpiri people, and caused much controversy within the anthropological profession. Olive Pink's ardent political activism brought her into conflict with missionaries, pastoralists and her anthropological colleagues, while her sustained letter-writing campaigns made her the scourge of the public servants and administrators responsible for the wellbeing of Aboriginal people. 'Marcus's portrait of the intriguing, maddening and admirable "Miss Pink" both humanises and makes strange our frontier pasts.' Tim Rowse ISBN: 0958176027 $39.95 Paperback
Len Beadell Series: Blast The Bush CD
by Len Beadell
Blast The Bush CD - Duration 5 hours 45 minutes - 5 CDs. Directed and edited by Phil Sexton. Blast The Bush is the second of Len Beadell's best selling series of books where the story of the frantic and harried efforts of the people who worked on the British Atomic Testing Project, code named "X 200", is told. ISBN: 0975146750 $39.95 CD
Len Beadell Series: Lifetime in the Bush
by Mark Shephard
Lifetime in the Bush: The Biography of Len Beadell. Len Beadell and Mark Shephard shared the same passion for the Australian bush. Mark has written Lens's biography as his personal contribution to perpetuating the memory of a remarkable Australian. ISBN: 1876247053 $32.95 Paperback
Len Beadell Series:
Too Long in the Bush:
Len Beadell Looks Back DVD
by Len Beadell
Too Long in the Bush: Len Bead ell Looks Back DVD. A journey with Len Beadell as he takes a nostalgic trip back to the areas and roads he surveyed and developed from 1947 - 1963. ISBN: 9780975146774 $45.00 DVD
Len Beadell Series:
Too Long in the Bush:
The Shepparton Talk
by Len Beadell
Too Long in the Bush: The Shepparton Talk. Len Beadell has been named the last "True Australian Explorer" for opening up over 2.5 million square kilometres of rugged Australian Outback. Follow the stories of Len through one of the many public speaking engagements. Listened to and loved by people of all generations. ISBN: 097514670X $32.95 CD
Mail for the Back of Beyond
by John Maddock
John Maddock steps back in time to the 1930’s to relate some of the experiences, courage and ingenuity of the men who took their vehicles over unmarked bush tracks to some of the loneliest places in Australia. This book is based on interviews with the people involved in carrying mail and supplies, to the remote isolated stations and settlements in the arid Corner Country of the north-east of South Australia. ISBN: 086417074 $11.95 Paperback
Rails to the Top End
by Robin Bromby
The Adelaide-Darwin Transcontinental Railway. Few ever thought it would happen - that is, trains running all the way from Adelaide and into Darwin. But, one hundred and twenty-six years after work began, and ninety-three years after the Commonwealth government promised to complete the partially finished route to the Top End, this mighty new transcontinental railway stands complete. ISBN: 0958176019 $24.95 Hardback
Telegraph Tourists
by Frank Wright & Penryn Goldman
Crossing Australia with "Vauxi" and "Baby" in 1929. This is part of the history of Australia when tourism was in its infancy. Six decades later it helps us appreciate how much improved facilities now give us increasing opportunities to experience the rich and fascinating landscapes of inland Australia. ISBN: 90958928983 $17.95 Paperback
The Centre
by Penny Van Oosterzee
Part one traces the geological history of central Australia through the passage of one of the world’s oldest rivers, The Finke. It flows through all the ecosystems of Australia, from the rugged almost impenetrable flanks of the MacDonnell Ranges to the Simpson Desert. Part 2 explores the diverse ecosystems and all that live therein, contesting the erroneous ‘dead heart’ myth, to reveal a rich array of animal and plant communities. ISBN: 1876622105 $27.95 Paperback
The Ghan
by Basil Fuller
The story of the Alice Springs Railway. ISBN: 1741100518 $19.95 Paperback
Tin Mosques & Ghantowns
by Christine Stevens
A history of Afghan camel drivers in Australia. ISBN: 0958176000 $39.95 Paperback
We of the Never Never
by Mrs Aeneas Gunn
In 1902 newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory where her husband had been appointed manager of 'The Elsey', a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first resented by people on and around the station, till her warmth and spirit won their affection and respect. ISBN: 9781741668414 $16.95 Paperback
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