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The Mantle of Surgery: The First Seventy-Five Years of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. W. Beasley
Melbourne: The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2002.Foreword by the Prince of Wales.
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All Civic Group How To Vote Card (Cairns Election)
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAll Civic Group
Cairns: Authorised by W. C. Balzer, and printed by The Cairns Post, No date.How to vote card for the losing mayor in a 1950s Cairns local election. The All Civic Group with John Reid Warner for mayor wanted your vote “For Progress Without Politics”. He lost out to William John Fulton [Bill Fulton] who served as mayor from 1952-59 before being elected to the Australian House of Representatives.
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Glory Days: Brisbane’s Art World to 1970
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJudith Hamilton
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2020.“This book recounts the glory days when Brisbane was seen as the art capital of Australia. Great artists such as renowned, award winning artist, Margaret Olley and two time Archibald winner, William Robinson, were developing and exposing their skills. Brisbane had many prestigious art galleries, art organisations and groups. These times inspired great art teachers such as Wendy Allen and Mervyn Moriarty who made such a big impact on the education of students in primary and secondary schools and tertiary colleges in the city and country areas of Queensland.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Booze Built Australia
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne Kelly
Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Company, 2017.This is the fascinating account of how AustraliaÂ’s development was fuelled by alcohol.
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Baptised Among Crocodiles: A History of the Daintree Aboriginal Mission, 1940-1962
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Guy
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2015.“Sometime around 1930, an Irish pentecostal missionary, Isobella Hetherington arrived at Mossman in Far North Queensland. She was accompanied by an Aboriginal woman named Nellie who was a talented vocalist. Together they began ministering to the Kuku Yulanji Aboriginal people who had been forced to gather in small groups throughout the Daintree Rainforest. Ten years later, a Mission was built on land purchased by the Assembly of God (Qld) beside the Daintree River and 50 to 70 people moved there. For the next 20 years, they grew bananas and pineapples, built homes and struggled with a government policy that controlled most aspects of their lives. This is the story of how, in a rapidly changing world, the Kuku Yulanji and the Missionaries sought to understand each other at a time before Reconciliation became a national objective.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Architecture in Brisbane (Volume 1)
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham de Gruchy
Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 2012. -
Gentlemen of the Flashing Blade
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBianka Vidonja Balanzategui
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2015.Studies in North Queensland History, Number 12. Foreword by Henry Reynolds. First published in 1990 by James Cook University.
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Tomitaro Fujii: Pearl Diver of the Torres Strait
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLinda Miley
Gold Coast: Keeaira Press, 2013.“Prior to the World War II, thousands of Japanese were employed in the pearl-shell industry in the Torres Strait. Tomitaro Fujii left his village in Japan in 1925 at the age of 19 to work as a cook on a pearling lugger. With hard work and determination Tomitaro was promoted to skipper of a lugger and was well known in the Torres Strait pearl-shell industry for his skill as a diver especially in the Darnley Deep. Tomitaro married Josephine Chin Soon of Islander and Chinese descent and lived on Thursday Island until his internment during World War II when all Japanese in Australia were sent to war camps. He was one of the few Japanese nationals permitted to remain in Australia after World War II. Tomitaro returned to Thursday Island with his young family and spent the rest of his life there and he played an important role in promoting Japanese and Australian relations.”
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Health Quality in Indigenous Communities: A Culturally Secure Quality Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services
AU$15.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristine Ryan
Gold Coast: Keeaira Press, 2010. -
A People’s Movement: Reconciliation in Queensland
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharmaine Foley; Ian Watson
Gold Coast: Keeaira Press, 2001. -
Trolling for Sharks: Adventures of a Teacher in a Remote Aboriginal Community
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTrev Brown
Gold Coast: Keeaira Press, 2005.“This collection of short stories tell of Trev Brown’s time as a teacher at the Angurugu School on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Being a manual arts teacher Trev put his practical skills to good use. Even if you are not interested in things mechanical it is impossible to put the book down until you find out what happens to the outboard engine that he finds at the bottom of a river and struggles to get going. He tells of rebuilding boats and cars, modifications to his house, rivets falling from airplanes, Friday nights at the Bartalumba Bay Fishermen’s Club and water-skiing in shark and crocodile-infested waters. Even the time he spent in the classroom had its share of excitement. Like the time an upset student arrived at school with his father’s spears and a few ended up through the school doors. Another time parents had to scare off crocodiles and sharks from the nearby river so a swimming carnival could be held, as the residents of the nearby mining town did not want Aborigines using the local swimming pool. Trevs skillful writing keeps the reader amused as you discover how exciting a schoolteacher’s life can be.” (publisher’s blurb)
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This Is My Heritage
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Aird; Mandana Mapar
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 2015.Photographs and stories from a 2015 exhibition at the Queensland Museum, celebrating twelve indigenous artists and educators.
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Not Just A School: St Peters Lutheran College
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClarrie Burke; Nicky Boynton-Bricknell; Jan Hurwood
Brisbane: CopyRight, 2012. -
What Is Appropriation? An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art in the 1980s & 1990s
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRex Butler
Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2004.“It was probably Ad Reinhardt, though it could have been Sherrie Levine or even Andy Warhol, who remarked that you only know you are doing something original when everybody else is doing it. This book explores this and other paradoxes raised by the practice of appropriation the quotation and use of other artists’ work that became widespread in the 1980s. Why was the practice so uniquely popular in Australia? What did it say about the relationship of Australian art to the art of other countries; about white art to Aboriginal art; and about contemporary art to the art of the past? How and why does appropriation fundamentally challenge habitual ways of looking at pictures and thinking about art? The essays and pictures in this book provide answers to these questions, but always in the knowledge that the enigma of appropriation remains.”
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How Can I Use Herbs in My Daily Life?
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIsabell Shipard
Nambour: David Stewart, 2021.Over 500 herbs, spices and edible plants. An Australian, practical guide to growing with culinary and medicinal uses.
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Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn MacGillivray
London: T. & W. Boone, 1852.Commanded by the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. &c. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, etc. To which is Added the Account of Mr. E. B. Kennedy’s Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula.