A century afield: a history of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club.
Hobart. Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, 2004. Octavo, photographs, softcover. An account of the history of the club to mark its centenary. More
Hobart. Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, 2004. Octavo, photographs, softcover. An account of the history of the club to mark its centenary. More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2009. reprint). Octavo, paperback, photographs and illustrations, map. Sarah Murgatroyd has brought together new scientific and historical evidence, and tells in brilliant detail the story of Burke and Wills, the explorers who set out to cross Australia from coast to coast. This book describes vividly the remarkable..... More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. This book puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing behaviours inconsistent with the..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2009. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Full of helpful advice about how to recognize and deal with (move, kill, or leave) the animals that share our homes and backyards. Australian homes and backyards are abuzz with wildlife: possums in the roof, ants in the cupboards, frogs in..... More
Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. When the British first arrived on Australia's shores at the end of the eighteenth century, it was not only the potential of its space that tantalised them, but the extraordinary living things that they found there. Every European collector desired..... More
Melbourne: Penguin Books, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, illustrations, maps. Most Australians live in cities or cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what Australia is, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it..... More