Arcadia north melbourne (70 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: New. 1st thus. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Prologue by the Poet. Introduction by Dr Thanasis Spilias, La Trobe University. 122 pages. Famagusta Regina is regarded as one of the best poetical works written in the Greek language in the last forty years. These poems by Kyriakos Charalambides explore the fate of a captured modern-day city which used to be one of the jewels on the Mediterranean coastline. …

soft cover. Condición: Fine, near new condition. No Jacket. Illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white, maps. 23 cm. XVIII, 190 pages.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None Issued. First Edition. 248 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Paperback first edition 2009. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE: TO MATT WITH THANKS AND AFFECTION. ANTOINETTE 2009. This book is in near fine condition - very mild edge wear. Inscribed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Reprint. MINT - a NEW copy. Several black and white photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 110 pages. For readers world wide Mrs Aeneas Gunn brought the Outback to life with her account of a year spent on a remote cattle station in Northern Australia. And of all the characters in her book she especially relished âCheon ⦠whose presence and vivid language are one of the great attractions of We of the Never Neverâ [Geoffrey Dutton]. As a literary figure, Cheon is fondly remembered, but his personal story has been a mystery - one that Kevin Wong Hoy reveals as quite remarkable. Australia's first Chinese Celebrity Cook.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. A new book with some very light shelf-wear. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 302 pages. The autobiography of Australian academic, novelist, short story writer, editor, commentator, anthologist, critic and publisher. 'Wilding's is the story of a maverick who worked within an establishment institution, yet was capable of opening his imagination both to the possibilities of academic life and to the more capacious narratives of Australian history, literary history, and contemporary life'. Peter Pierce Dictionary of Literary Biography.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 227 pages. The fourth Inspector Anders' police procedural. Inspector Anders â" Europolâs top terrorism investigator and Mafia nemesis - is ordered to Prague, tasked with quickly locating a mysterious, unpublished dossier said to detail explosive allegations against the Czech Republicâs most eminent business leaders.…

Softcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 162 pages. A Red Baron squadron member shot down Walter Balmford's plane over German occupied northern France in 1917. With a bullet hole in his windscreen, the plane's joystick useless, and his gunner Corporal Elliott badly wounded, Walter managed to fly the plane back across the front lines and land it safely. After the war, Walter became an actuary and migrated with his wife and two sons to Australia. He became the Commonwealth Actuary, a position now known as the Australian Government Actuary, working closely with the Treasurer (later Prime Minister) J.B. Chifley: the two became friends.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 96 pages. "Lieutenant John Rosel won a Military Cross for displaying 'calmness and outstanding leadership' when his platoon became surrounded at a critical point in the siege of Tobruk. He led the defence of several vital outposts against numerous attacks by the troops of General Rommel. His son Mike has written not only a touching tribute to his father's war service but also a perceptive and stylish account of the soldiering experience of a generation. A Rat of Tobruk has many fascinating photographs - mainly taken by John Rosel ." Dr Mark Johnston.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 213 pages. Tess De Araugo is an award-winning author with a deep interest in the history of the Indigenous peoples of south-eastern Australia since European colonization in the 19th century. This book most valuably records oral history of the Yotti Yotta, Indigenous People, of the Murray River valley.…

Softcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 194 pages. The stories of the first legendary bushranger, Matthew Brady and the last, Ned Kelly.

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White illustrations. 351 pages. Stories from the life journey of one of Australia's leading artists in ceramics, beginning in a small isolated town in the Snowy Mountains. At university an unexpected inspiration leads to a PhD, followed by travel and adventure; from driving trucks, and flying gliders, to the Smithsonian in Washington, onwards to the deserts and high mountains of Pakistan and immersion in politics, archaeology, and assassination in Israel. The emotional ups and downs of teaching in art schools, insights into the practice of the art of ceramics, and the subtleties of isolated rural living complete the storytelling. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 127 pages. Captain Alec Little was Australia's greatest fighter Ace. Highly decorated and credited with 47 victories, he was only 22 when he died in his Sopwith Camel in a solo night pursuit of German bombers above the Western Front on 27 May 1918. This is the first biography of this hero who is surprisingly unknown to most Australians.…

soft cover. Condición: Fine, near new condition. No Jacket. 1st edition. 24 cm. 206 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW book. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xii, 297 pages. Victoria Thompson is a passionate advocate for the protection of animals from great harm. She movingly describes our appalling failures in this regard and praises those who press for the enlightened awareness and humane treatment of animals. She believes profoundly that we must not continue to think of animals as just resources to exploitâ"for animals too have a right to live naturally. And she gives us solutions for a kinder world.…

Softcover. Condición: New. Revised Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Mint copy - a new book. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 120 pages. Soon after its foundation in 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia gave women the vote and the right to sit in parliament. Women's suffrage was in fact a major aspect of the new nation's progressive and international thinking. With great vigour, Australian women, including the Melbourne-born artist Dora Meeson Coates, ably involved themselves with the women's movement in Great Britain. And with astounding presumption, the Australian parliament sent a Resolution to its lofty Westminster counterpart recommending that women's suffrage be adopted.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 334 pages. Australian, Anne Walker's memoir of her work in, and the role of the IWTC ( International Women's Tribune Centre in New York), from the 1970s. She tells the powerful stories of some of the women she met at meetings, workshops and other events in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean and Latin America. She also tells of witnessing and living through some of the toughest times in New York's history, from the moments when planes crashed into the World Trade Centre towers on September 11, 2001. This is an important memoir that takes readers inside the world of women fighting for justice and for an equal place at the tables where global policies and programs are developed and implemented.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. viii 259 pages. The pages are lightly tanned, else as new. ""Jim Gumm is an ex-infantryman and ex-con, a devoted leading-manservant who's never had his own way or love until Eliza Batman, the wife of his brutal and land-obsessed boss. An infamous treaty bring Jim to the shores of Port Phillip where a Wildman walks into camp. As the unknown Wildman struggles with the loss of his daughter and wife, he becomes Buckley again for settlers who consider him a godsend for their treaty. To Jim, how Buckley has lived a free lifetime with the blacks is a tempting mystery. William Buckley was Victoria's first conciliator and long-term European resident; Jim Gumm was one of Melbourne's first residents." (back cover).…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Tiny vignettes of vintage Penguin/Pelican covers as chapter headings. The cover is from the painting 'Canberra Cyclists 1945' by Frank Hinder. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 217 pages. In April 1938 a small bookshop opened for business in Canberra, at a time when Australiaâs federal capital was still a country town. In an era which was a golden age for books and booksellers, the bookshop, under its owner and manager Verity Hewitt, became a meeting place for booklovers as well as an art gallery and a library. Scientists, artists, diplomats, servicemen and women, public servants, writers, adventurers and immigrants all visited the shop during the war years. The bookshop was an important part of the city's social and cultural history. It witnessed Canberra's slow change, under the pressures of war, from a rural backwater to a reluctant and still unformed capital city. A delightful read.…

Softcover. Condición: New. Reprint. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 225 pages. In mid-nineteenth century, women were expected to remain at home, as wives and mothers. In Britain, the United States and Australia, teaching was the only respectable profession for women; even nursing was frowned upon. In this environment, three remarkable women rewrote the history books by becoming doctors in a world where women were not even allowed to vote.…

Softcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Includes contributions by David Malouf, Alan Moorehead and Vincent O'Sullivan. 203 pages. What do Antipodeans seek in Tuscany and what do they find? The responses have been richly varied during the 150 years Tuscany has been a magnet and a benchmark. Antipodeans have found welcome echoes and unexpected resonances but this is the first time their story has been told with such flair and nuance.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 261 pages. James Ferguson describes what the squatting life was like, how stations were founded and developed, where the squatters came from, and what kinds of people they were. Their rugged individualism did much to form the Australian character, and theirs is a story of courage and determination, but also of tragedy as economic progress led to the degradation of the land and destruction of the Aboriginal way of life. …

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 203 pages. The book has minimal wear. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 184 pages. âThis Merioola is a strange old house. There are rooms and passages and west wings and surprising hidden courtyards that one comes on accidentally: there are customs and ceremonies, peculiar rites and festivals that have grown up with the habit of the characters who live here.â The artist, Donald Friend, diarised these comments in 1946 just after renting a room in Merioola, a colonial mansion in Sydneyâs Woollahra then operating as a boarding house. Its tenants were dancers, designers, musicians, painters, sculptors, writers and other creative types. In the 1940s it was the centre of the cityâs bohemian life. But for eighty years prior to Merioolaâs phase as an âartistsâ colony,â it was already famous for the prominent people who lived there and their legendary fêtes and fashionable balls. This is the story of Merioola and its residents and their triumphs and tragedies over all the years of its existence.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 176 pages. This is the story of how 200 years of family history led to the authorâs familyâs migration to Western Australia in the 1920s, and how at one level a failure, at another it contributed to the vibrancy of the growing state.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 320 pages. Guy Gaunt's infiltration of America's leadership changed the course of history. When the Great War began he was the British naval attachà in Washington, beached for recklessness at sea. Taking over a network of disaffected immigrants he thwarted all efforts by the powerful German-American establishment in the United States to stop America from supporting the Allies. Toughened by early life in the turbulent Australian goldfields, Guy built a career by playing outside the rules. He dodged his way up the ranks of the Royal Navy, married for money, snatched up a country estate, won a seat in Parliament and faked his disappearance to run off with the wife of the King's doctor. He was active again in World War II but the Whitehall mandarins took a cruel revenge.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 342 pages. The biography of the delightful Carol Raye [ the British Australia actor/producer who appeared British films, the Mavis Bramston Show and in many theatrical productions. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. …

Hardback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Mint copy in a Mint Dustjacket. A New Copy. Dustjacket protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxi, 292 pages. The authorised biography of Rear-Admiral Guy Griffiths. âFrom country boy to gold-braided admiral, Guy Griffiths has led a richly-textured life of service to the navy and the nation. As a teenage midshipman he survived the disastrous sinking of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse off Malaya in 1941 and went on to fight at sea with distinction in another two wars: Korea and Vietnam. It is an unmatched record of courage, dedication and achievement. This is the enthralling biography of a remarkable sailor and a genuinely great Australian.' Mike Carlton AM.…

Softcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Card covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 238 pages. In 1937, the Nazi propaganda machine feted Friedrich Wilhelm Hymmen as a literary star. A decade later, he gave up writing fiction altogether as an act of self-punishment for his complicity in the crimes of the Nazi regime. Now his grandson tries to find answers to the question of how a talented young man from an educated middle-class family was radicalised into joining the Nazi movement. He discovers a story of how education, talent and keen ambition led to collusion with one of the most murderous regimes of the 20th century. A story about guilt, memory, and the joys and limitations of reinvention. And most of all, a story about whether the love of a grandson can withstand the revelations about his grandfather's past.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 189 pages. Duncan MacGregor (1835-1916) was an ambitious and talented Scottish Highlander who tried his luck as a shepherd in a new country and made good. He led the industry in breeding programs and in 1869 MacGregor established his famous studs of pure Booth Shorthorns, Clydesdale horses, and Border Leicester sheep at Riddells Creek. MacGregor's life was one of extremes. He was highly successful in his venture draining the Kooweerup Swamp in Victoria and as a pastoral pioneer in the Channel Country of western Queensland. At his peak of power in the 1880s the family holdings totalled thousands of square miles of rich cattle country.…