Mary Durack's command of her material, her integrity as an historian and her meticulous documentation provide us with a fascinating look at our past.

Will & Eliza Shaw, their six children, two servants and some stock make the move from a comfortable life in English drawing rooms and embroidery to the brushwood huts and back-breaking labour of a pioneer settlement in Western Australia.

Two sons were tragically drowned on arriving at Fremantle. This story tells of the heat and sand, the hardships, the brilliant flowers and birds, and the strangeness of the aborigines. An enthralling and often heart-breaking human document.

Contains two of Tom Cole's books - Riding the Wildman Plains contains his letters and diaries from when he left England in 1923 as a seventeen year old, up to 1943. Crocodiles & Other Characters is a collection of some of Tom's rich store of tales of the outback and its people.

Stunning stories of courage and achievement. Explorers, ANZACS, treasure hunters and more

Includes Little Black Princess. Two classic books in one from Aeneas Gunn

Sequel to "Sin Sweat & Sorrow". Matilda is the highway from Cunnamulla to Karumba

Where the Dead Men Lie

Tales of Graves, Pioneers and Old Bush Pubs.  By Bruce Simpson

Retired drover and bush poet Bruce Simpson travelled along the old Cobb & Co coach roads and stock routes in western Queensland to find the final resting places of some of our earliest settlers. He tells tales of the perils of life on ′the wastes of the Never Never′ and the desperate circumstances faced by victims of accident, sickness, raging bushfires and rising floodwaters - all isolated from help by sheer distance. Along with photographer Ian Tinney, whose striking photographs document these sites for posterity, Bruce Simpson visited some of the legendary drinking places, many in ruins, of characters such as bushmen and bushrangers - bringing to life memories of Australia in a long-vanished time.

A mix of story telling and ideas, blending travelogue with adventure, yarns and life's great questions

Michael Keenan is a NSW farmer with a passionate interest in the environment. Mike embarks on another mission quest; to rescue the magnificent wilderness of the west Kimberley from being destroyed forever.

The Fitzroy River, one of the last great rivers flowing freely to the sea, is the lifeblood of the west Kimberley. When Mike found out there was plans to dam it to allow for cotton to be grown, he was horrified. A dam on the Fitzroy River would be an environmental disaster greater than Australia has ever known.

With help from local Bunuda people, fierce opponents of the dam which threatened their homeland and sacred sites, Mike organised a horseback trek to discover what might be lost forever. What they found was a paradise of unique plants, pristine rivers and dramatic gorges

An historical comparison of true frontier tales from Australia & America. Compiled by Jack Drake. This book covers the squattocracy, cattle kings and land barons, police and posses, bushrangers and outlaws.

Drought, flood, harrowing isolation and horrific accidents. . . the Australian outback is no place for a lady. But the women of the Outback are a different breed: tough, resilient and endlessly resourceful. They're both the backbone and the heart of Australia, keeping their farms going, their families together and their communities alive - and often against overwhelming odds.

Maree was left with three small daughters when her husband and young son were killed in a light plane crash. Molly lived alone in a 1920s homestead in the middle of the Simpson Desert for twenty years without even a phone. Alice admits she couldn't tell a cow from a bull when she first went to live in the Outback.

This book tells the inspiring stories of fourteen remarkable women, from high-achievers to everyday heroes. Their tales are often heart-rending and regularly touched by tragedy, but are always life-affirming. They portray Outback Australian women as they really are - and as we all wish we might be.