Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.
A book about Australian wildlife road kill - how it happens, how it decomposes, and how to cook it, from shabu shabu bandicoot to parma wallaby, done with a touch of humour.
Ireland, early 1800s. Maurice O'Dwyer, a young Irishman is exiled to the convict-filled island of Van Diemen's Land, Australia with his young simpleton brother Padraig.
Robbins Island, off Tasmania's north-west coast in Bass Strait, is the state's seventh largest island and its largest privately owned one. Pauline Buckby, also author of Around Circular Head and The Legends of Hunter Island (both also in our stock), tells the island's history here.
A Tasmanian biography and family history capturing the life and work of Richard Lyall, transported to Van Diemen's Land as a convict, and subsequently owner of the Westbury Inn.
A facsimile of the 1904 publication on Tasmanian fishing by one of the co-owners of ironmonger Allen and Slater, Launceston - numbered, limited edition.
The Ross Bridge in the midlands of Tasmania is a beautiful structure in itself but the extraordinary carvings on each stone of each arch make it one of the most remarkable pieces of convict art in Australia. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
