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Bushwalk takes the reader on a journey through the Australian bush. The reader discovers native Australian flora and fauna along the way. AUTHOR: Sandra Kendell is a visual artist who has a great affinity with the Australian environment. Her first book Quoll explored the plight of the Quoll and sold over 6000 copies in Australia Sandra grew up on a farm with a bush block at the back where she first encountered some of the animals in this story. Camping holidays further developed a love of native animals and environment. She now liv... read more

First in the Aussie Notables series depicting the history of the people on the Australian money

Mary Reibey became Australia's richest woman, but she had a skeleton in her closet. Orphaned after the death of her mother, father and a caring grandmother, she ran away from home disguised as a boy, 'borrowed' a horse and was sent to NSW. Was the criminal system inhumane? How did she find her way to the top?

The second title in the Aussie Notables.Born and raised inWagga Wagga, Dame Mary was a schoolteacher, utopian socialist, journalist, poet and girl friend of Henry Lawson, whose adventures took her to Paraguay, Patagonia and Casterton(!).Like all Aussie Notable titles, this is a great story which makes you wonder why we don't know more about the well-chosen people on our Australian bank notes.

Father of Federation and father of seventeen children. Arrived in Sydney with 53 cents in his pocket, and died with about the same amount.This is the third book in the Aussie Notables Series

White Pointer South is a fascinating compendium of shark facts and Tasmanian maritime history. It also represents the first detailed examination of Tasmanian white shark captures, encounters and attacks ever undertaken. Here the reader can chart the course of human/shark interactions in the island state, from the founding of the British colony in Van Diemen's Land to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Richly illustrated throughout, White Pointer South aims to give water-users and the general public a better understanding of the ... read more