Wakefield press adelaide sa (20 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Book condition is near fine. Spine intact. Front and back cover clean. Text body clean. Book block clean. Great for someone who is handy around the house and the bonus great food aswell.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book condition is near fine. Soft cover. No dust jacket. Ex-library copy . The book on front book board has a bar code on bottom left front corner and on the spine is reference number of the book. Text body clean. Book block clean. Spine intact. Over-all an great and neat copy. Within months hundreds of men -'enemy aliens' - were interned on Torrens Island, in the Port River estuary near Adelaide . Sailors taken off enemy ships, foreign national living in South Australia, and even some naturalised British subjects found themselves behind barbed wire.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Ex library copy with external stickers removed. Date due slip on inside. Marks on book foredges. He didn't look like he could jump a bull, but she knew he could. It was all in the hands, he'd often explain. The will. The bloody-mindedness.On a cattle station that stretches beyond the horizon, seven people are trapped by their history and the need to make a living. Trevor Wilkie, the good father, holds it all together, promising his sons a future he no longer believes in himself. The boys, free to roam the world's biggest backyard, have nowhere to go. Trevor's father, Murray, is the keeper of stories and the holder of the deed. Murray has no intention of giving up what his forefathers created. But the drought is winning. The cattle are ribs. The bills keep coming. And one day, on the way to town, an accident changes everything. (publisher blurb).…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy. Please see images for more information. Book is clean and binding tidy. Some edge wear and few dents on the cover.The biography of Georgina King (1845-1932) an amateur geologist and anthropologist. Born in 1845 in Fremantle, Western Australia, she was the daughter of a clergyman.The family moved to Sydney where her interest in natural sciences grew. The talented amateur, however, was excluded by the all-male Royal Society of New South Wales.She self-published her scientific papers and was an early member of the Women's Literary Society and an original member of the Women's Club. She fought not only for scientific recognition but against intellectual theft of her work.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library book with external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Stamps on inside. ticky tape from date due slip on author bio page. Book is clean and binding is still very good. A few minor marks on book foredges. In 1870, a colonial government, on the brink of collapse, made an audacious move. South Australia's squabbling politicians briefly put aside their differences and took the bold decision to run an iron wire to the middle of nowhere and beyond. Stringing the Overland Telegraph Line across the silent heart of the continent was a momentous event in the country's history. It connected Adelaide to a global network of cables and wires: those travelling up and down the track through central Australia were seldom out of earshot of its hum. Alice Springs was its most important repeater station. Alice Springs: From Singing Wire to Iconic Outback Town is the result of eight years of meticulous research, unravelling the early history of central Australia's first white settlement. It contains information, never previously published, about that little outpost - a significant heritage site - and how an iconic town was born nearby, during a goldrush that made a few people rich. It is a tale of the country's heart and some of its most remarkable but little-known characters, and of children torn between two cultures living at the telegraph station after the Morse keys stopped clicking in 1932; children under the shadow of the most controversial piece of legislation in Australia's history. Central Australia has a black history. Alice Springs is no longer the small, outback community romanticised in Nevil Shute's novel A Town Like Alice. But its people, black and white, are still living on the line. Includes bibliographic references and index.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with stickers, stamps and protective plastic covering. Minor edgewear. Much of Australian history has been written about cities and coastal plains. Beyond the black stump refers to far-distant locations, and going-ons that appear marginal to many city living Australians. This book explores the hidden history of people and places in the Australian outback, revealing a vast inland corridor of social movement and interaction that has played a central role in shaping the Australian nation. Contributors include Lorina Barker, Amanda Barry, Badger Bates, Peter Bishop, Nici Cumpston, Jean Duruz, Charles Fahey, Lionel Frost, Heather Goodall, Jenny Gregory, Patricia Grimshaw, Rodney Harrison, Rick Hosking, Darrell Lewis, Alan Mayne, Chrissiejoy Marshall, Margaret Somerville and Richard Waterhouse.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Shattered Lives tells the personal, harrowing stories of asbestos victims and their families while illustrating their remarkable resilience, humour, love of life, and devotion to family and friends. These are ordinary people caught up in a modern tragedy - a tragedy that was ignored until it was too late.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Octavo, x, 450 pages. A New copy.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition. John Gavin, a 15-year-old boy, became the first European to be executed in the colony of Western Australia.He had arrived in Fremantle just months earlier, one of a group of juvenile convicts taking part in an attempted rehabilitation scheme. John Schoales, the government guardian of the new arrivals, put Gavin to work on an isolated farm south of Perth. Soon after, he was brought back to Fremantle in shackles, charged with murder. 'This is an excellent novel. Perceptive, subtle and moving in its insights, the narrative moves to its inexorable conclusion with a surely controlled touch. By a long way the most compelling work based on Western Australian history that I have read.' - Professor Geoffrey Bolton (back cover).…

Pictorial Card Cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Colour and B&W photographs throughout. Format: oblong. 17 x 21 cm. 134 pp.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 2nd Edition. Fine condition. When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlements. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would be as much 'under the safeguard of the law as the Colonists themselves, and equally entitled to the privileges of British subjects'. But could colonial governments provide the protection that was promised? Out of the Silence explores the nature and extent of violence on South Australia's frontiers in light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of the law, and the resonances of that history in social memory. What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten? And what might this reveal about our understanding of the nation's history and its legacies in the present.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine condition. Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his patrols, he was eventually tried in 1891 for the murder of two Aboriginal men and was posted to an even more remote frontier in the Top End. During his time in the Territory, Willshire wrote several extraordinary memoirs about his experiences. Part murder mystery and part courtroom drama, his story illuminates unfolding issues of race and nationalism in colonial Australia on the eve of Federation.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Fallout is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery but also to expose the Australian scientists appointed as charlatans to protect the nation from any possible harm.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Signed by authors.

Pictorial Card Cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. B&W photos throughout. Includes Media Release (loose). 23 x 15 cm. 385 pp.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foredges have sunned. Interior and binding are still excellent Matilda Evans arrived in South Australia in 1852. Her life was arduous, but she persevered to become a successful writer, schoolteacher, and parent. She published fourteen novels under the pseudonym Maud Jean Franc, all set in Adelaide or the surrounding countryside. Her books were read widely in Australia and overseas. Each went to several editions, and Marian (1859) was reprinted seventeen times in London. …

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book condition is near fine. Soft cover. No dust jacket. Book boards clean. Book block clean. Spine intact. Text body clean. Over-all a great and neat copy of the book. See photo. he First Wave: Exploring Early Coastal Contact History in Australia is a compelling anthology edited by Gillian Dooley and Danielle Clode that reexamines the initial encounters between Indigenous Australians and European maritime explorers. Rather than presenting a conventional colonial narrative, the book offers a multifaceted exploration of these early coastal contacts through both scholarly research and creative expression. Key Themes and Insights: Indigenous Perspectives: The book foregrounds Indigenous cosmological views and agency, challenging the dominant Eurocentric lens of "discovery." Mutual Misunderstanding: It highlights how early interactions were often shaped by misinterpretations, whether peaceful or violent, due to vastly different worldviews. Creative Contributions: Includes poetry by Ali Cobby Eckermann and fiction by Kim Scott, which add emotional depth and cultural resonance to the historical analysis. Historical Vignettes: Peter Sutton s chapter explores a 1927 expedition involving Aboriginal and European women, using diaries and oral histories to reconstruct their journey. Chester Schultz s biography of Kalungku reveals the harrowing experiences of an Aboriginal woman kidnapped across multiple regions, offering rare insight into Indigenous women's lives on the maritime frontier. Why It Matters: This anthology is not just a historical account it's a re-visioning of Australia's colonial past. It invites readers to reflect on the psychological and cultural impact of first contact and the ongoing legacy of colonization. As one reviewer put it, This book matters, because it helps Australians grapple with their national identity and historical memory. Extra charges for over-sea shipping due to weight exceed 500gram. Actual weight 0.950KG.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. This a complete copy. Some are printed without pages 104-113. The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity; its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. The melancholic exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by ditching its past. This historic plain of fecundity demands an investigation of its ending as the home of a ruling class that for 150 years bestrode an Australia riding on the sheep's back. The Vanished Land is a human tale of leaving, of a disconnect with the land, of submerged anguish and inhibited grief, a private story of loss told for the first time by an outsider with an insider connection.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 162 pages. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. B&W and colour photographs and illustrations throughout. 31 x 25 x 4 cm. 478 pp. Very heavy book (3.25 kg) may require extra postage.