$39.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr / ISBN:9781921410871)
The City's Outback
This honest and compelling book follows the fraught, exciting and painful process of getting to know ‘others’, in this case Australian Aborigines in the suburbs who are already ‘known’ through shocking images and worrying statistics. Gillian Cowlishaw has written a book about the intimacy of the encounter, the practical and ethical dilemmas of research and the fun of engagement in the city’s outback.
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2009 Shortlist
Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36 Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invitation to sail on a naval survey vessel to South America, New Zealand and Austra... More »
House Of Exile
$32.99 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
In 1933 the prominent author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger were forced to flee Germany, finding refuge in France and later, in great despair, Los Angeles. There Nelly committed suicid... More »
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The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )
"...Chloe Hooper has more than done justice to a worthy story. She has produced an Australian classic." Robert Drewe, The Age
This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee sw... More »
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Arabesques
$49.99$39.95 (Hardcover book / Picador )
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andr Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as ... More »
The City's Outback
$39.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr )
This honest and compelling book follows the fraught, exciting and painful process of getting to know ‘others’, in this case Australian Aborigines in the suburbs who are already ‘known’ through shocking images and worryin... More »