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Australian books on a variety of subjects ranging from gardening and nature to cricket and bushfire safety to Austalian Bush and Wild Food books and field guides. New, used, out of print and collectable. Several kids' books including books about bilbies at Easter, historical fiction books, saving the planet and a guide to Free Stuff for Aussie kids.

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Bushfire softcover Schauble Guide

THE AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRE SAFETY GUIDE The essential safety guide for everyone by JOHN SCHAUBLE To see other Bushfire Safety books click here New softcover book 198 pages published 2004. Today more than ever homes and property are at higher risk of being consumed by bushfire as new subdivisions spread out into bushland around cities.Every Australian household should have this indispensible and practical guide covering some of the most essential information about bushfire including: Understanding bushfire behaviour Making your home and property fire-safe Travelling during bushfire season Defending your home Personal safety Insurance First-aid Animal Care After the fire - immediate issues and lo find out more.....
A Scott Zarcinas book New Honeycomb Pilgrim's softcover

SAMANTHA HONEYCOMB A Pilgrim's Chronicle by SCOTT ZARCINAS New softcover book 179 pages. Wrongly punished for breaking the ancient laws Samantha Honeycomb is expelled by the queen into the wild and untamed Crazy Lands. Her only hope of redemption is an impossible quest - to find the fabled hive of Beebylon and bring back its secret of Infinite Richness. But there are others who would see her fail.Evoking the wisdom and mystery of the ancient sages Scott Zarcinas reveals through the trials and tribulations of Samantha Honeycomb that the surface appearance of unpleasant and torturous experiences are in fact essential ingredients in the melting pot of our future joy security and acceptance our more information.....
Tips Webster Essential Safety softcover Bushfire

ESSENTIAL BUSHFIRE SAFETY TIPS This book could save your life by JOAN WEBSTER To see other Bushfire Safety books including Joan's Complete Bushfire Safety Book click here New softcover book 110 pages published 2008. Bushfire authorities urge people to be ready for summer with a safety plan. Essential Bushfire Safety Tips has everything you need to know to makeyour bushfire plan with confidence providing accurate information in anaccessible clear way. In this condensed version of Joan Webster's acclaimed The Complete Bushfire Safety Book over 2000 authenticated tips are listed covering every known bushfire danger and safety factor. This handy book demystifies bushfire behaviour; details the p more details.....
Atlas Road New Wide includes Australia Camps

CAMPS AUSTRALIA WIDE 4 The ultimate guide for the budget conscious traveller See other Australian books click here New spiral bound softcover book. Measures 30 x22 cm 368 pages published 2007. Includes Hema Road Atlas Over 3000 listings across Australia for rest areas free camp sites National Parks State Forests and Parks and low cost caravan parks. Includes maps GPS references pet-friendly sites and dump point locations. Organised state-by-state each colour-coded state section has a key map followed by several pages of maps which give more detail and then the camps listings. These are organised in linear order along highways and roads running north-south and east-west. Site numbers are over more information.....
Hodges softcover Garden Jeffrey new Wise

The WATER-WISE GARDEN by JEFFREY HODGES See books on Permaculture and Sustainability click here New softcover book published 2008 144 pages. How to grow healthy plants using less water In this timely book organic gardening guru Jeffrey Hodges explains how to make the most of our precious water resources to create and maintain a healthy flourishing garden. This practical manual will help you: understand the way plants use water and the way water is stored in the soil - knowledge that will instantly transform your watering practices create 'water-use zones' to improve water efficiency improve the water-holding content of your soil with compost and mulch make the best use of recycled water more here.....
Jack book inCamp Cooking

OUTBACK COOKING IN THE CAMP OVEN by JACK REG ABSALOM To see a selection of Australian Bush Food books and guides click here Used softcover book in excellent condition 110 pages photography by Jocelyn Burt. No writing marked torn loose or missing pages. There is an old bushman's joke about how to cook a cockatoo. Catch your cockatoo boil it with two stones and when the stones are soft your bird is ready. Jack and Reg Absalom two seasoned bush cooks explore with some wit the possibilities to create intriguing and often appetising dishes with the unusual ingredients found in the outback - goat kangaroo quandongs (wild peaches) are a few of the resources transformed into dishes eaten with great more.....
HOUSEMEETING out book tremely LANO print rare

housemeeting by LANO WOODLEY aka COLIN LANE and FRANK WOODLEY 216 pages with illustrations by FRANK WOODLEY and foreword by ANDREW DENTON After 20 years together they have called it a day but their quirky comedy will live on forever in this out-of-print rare brilliant highly sought-after book. Their last show ever was in Melbourne Australia on November 11th 2006. ABOUT THE BOOK: Colin has had enough. After nine years he's decided Frank has to move out. But Frank doesn't want to go. He loves living with Colin and is scared of having to face the real world without his best friend. He tries everything to persuade Colin to let him stay but nothing works. What is he going to do? Is their friendsh find out more.....
new book Tim Wild Food Field

WILD FOOD PLANTS OF AUSTRALIA FIELD GUIDE by TIM LOW To see other Bush Food books click here New softcover book 204 pages. Excellent colour photos throughout. Wild Food Plants of Australia is the fieldguide edition of Wild Food Plants of Australia. It is presented in a concise convenient form to facilitate quick and ready reference in the field. Tim Low has provided a truly reliable guide to our edible flora making identification easy. Thus it is a perfect companion for bushwalkers naturalists scientists and with emphasis on wild food cuisine gourmets. Low describes more than 180 plants - from the most tasty and significant plant foods of southern and eastern Australia to the more important more here.....
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WATERWISE GARDENING Third Edition by KEVIN WALSH See other Gardening books click here New softcover book published 2007 3rd Ed. 176 pages. Waterwise Gardening sets out the Six Vital Principles by which we can have a beautiful garden and save water too. It describes over 200 drought-tolerant trees shrubs groundcovers perennials and bulbs and discusses their features and requirements. Full of information on waterwise design the power of mulch the pros and cons of various watering systems and products this third edition is a complete revision of Kevin Walsh's pioneering and best-selling book Water-saving Gardening. This new edition is rich with colour and includes easy-to-follow text and diagra click here.....
McNaughton Parrots Australian Malcolm Finches New

AUSTRALIAN PARROTS and FINCHES by MALCOLM McNAUGHTON Superb brand large new hardcover book 208 pages. Beautiful watercolour paintings and pencil drawings. Parrots and finches with their spectacularly colourful plumage are among the best loved and most admired birds both in the wild and in aviaries. Malcolm McNaughton's book lavishly illustrated with full-page lifelike watercolour paintings by the author will provide accurate information and reading pleasure for bird enthusiasts everywhere. The book contains extensive information and illustrations of fifty species of parrots and eighteen species of finches. Includes scientific names main identification features of males and females and distri more information.....
collection Diary Australian Seven

MY AUSTRALIAN STORY Diary Collection Seven books in the series by various well-known Australian authors See other children's fiction at The Bookshelf of Oz click here New hardcover books. My Australian Story is a series of historical novels for older children published by Scholastic Australia which was inspired by the Dear America series. Each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in Australian history. Distinguished authors lend their voices to these extensively researched novels written in intimate diary format and inspired by letters and diaries of the time. Australian history has never been more accessible for M more information.....
book Australian Rick new

AUSTRALIAN TEST CRICKETERS An A - Z profiling every cricketer who's donned the Baggy Green by RICK SMITH Brand new softcover book 352 pages published by ABC Books in December 2006. RRP .95. This essential alphabetical ready-reference features career summaries statistics and photographs of every Australian Test cricketer from 1877 to 2006. Test cricket began in 1877 when an English professional touring team played a combined New South Wales and Victorian team. Thanks to some superb batting and bowling the colonials won by 45 runs beginning a tradition of excellence which continues to the present day. Since then nearly 400 players have donned the baggy green cap to represent AustraliaÃ¢â¬â click here.....
Raoul Birds Field Book

THE SLATER FIELD GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN BIRDS Revised and Updated by PETER SLATER PAT SLATER RAOUL SLATER Brand new softcover book 344 pages with clear protective plastic cover. Measures 11.5 x 21.5 cm perfect size for carrying in a glovebox backpack or hip pocket for use in the field. RRP .95 Revised and updated edition of the classic Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds. Now a household name among birdwatchers it is the book to which both beginners turn to and experienced birdwatchers rely on. Designed for field use it describes and illustrates approx 775 species recorded to date in Australia nearby islands and seas of the continental shelf. The 167 superbly painted plates enable easy co find out more.....
Kid's Guide softcover Chapman new SavePlanetAussie book Helen

SAVE THE PLANET - THE AUSSIE KID'S GUIDE by HELEN CHAPMAN See other books about the environment and sustainability click here New softcover book 96 pages published 2008. Our planet needs your help! But you don’t have to be a superhero to do your bit for the environment – all you need is this handy little guide! Jam-packed with important facts hilarious jokes and funny illustrations this book also features loads of awesome superhero challenges for you to complete. So no matter where you are in the great brown land of ours now you can do your bit to keep things green… and save the planet! Gardening Recycling Reusing Water Saving Energy Saving Pollution Green shopping and coo find out more.....
Smallest activity book Whatley books Bruce pack story New Hilton Australian Easter Nette

BILBY Easter Book Pack 2 Smallest Bilby stories and 2 Billy Bilby Friends activity books by Nette Hilton and Bruce Whatley 4-book pack of 2 new hardcover picture books plus 2 softcover activity and colouring in books The Smallest Bilby and the Midnight Star Every night the smallest bilby in the bilby patch looks up at the midnight sky and searches for his favourite star. One night fearful that she may go away and never come back he decides to give her something to remember him - forever and always. The Smallest Bilby and the Easter Games When the rabbits decide to stop delivering Easter eggs all the bush animals want to be the new Easter Bunny. After all Easter wouldn't be the same without e more.....
Hiddins

BUSH TUCKER FIELD GUIDE by LES HIDDINS To see other Bush Food books click here Pocket-sized new softcover book 184 pages. Published 2006. Discover the secrets of Australia's bush tucker. Les Hiddins the 'Bush Tucker Man' introduces more than 170 bush foods and medicines from bush banana to barramundi and golf plum to green ant. This pocket-sized Bush Tucker Field Guide is packed with fascinating information and is a must-have for everyone interested in unearthing Australia's remarkable wealth of bush tucker. Features: One entry per page including colour photo Uses including traditional and medicinal Other names Dangers and poisonous notes in red Wikipedia has an excellent article on bush tuc find out more.....
AUSTRALIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS by E.V LASSAK and T McCARTHY To see other Bush Food books click here New softcover book 240 pages superb full-colour photography.Published 2008 Australian Medicinal Plants is an invaluable resource for all those interested in herbal medicine Aboriginal culture and Australian flora. Plants have been used for medicinal purposes since earliest recorded history all over the world. Australia is no exception its varied flora providing the Aborigines with their medicines. With the arrival of Europeans much of this knowledge was overtaken by modern drugs and techniques but today there is a revival of interest in traditional medicines. Eric Lassak and Tara McCarthy's Austr more here.....
Isaacs book softcover Companion Bush Jennifer Used Food h Guide A

A COMPANION GUIDE TO BUSH FOOD by JENNIFER ISAACS To see other Bush Food books click here Small pocket-sized used softcover book ex-library covered in clear protective contact with the usual stickers and stamps. 158 pages lots of full-colour photos. Published 1996. A handy pocket edition to accompany Jennifer Isaacs' excellent book Bush Food. This compendium lists the kinds of foods eaten by Aborigines presented in a clear concise way. The foods are listed alphabetically by common name for easy reference and illustrated wtih more than 100 photographs. This book tells how the foods are gathered and caught explains how they are prepared and cooked and contains notes on their nutritional value. extra info.....
Grow

GROW YOUR OWN BUSHFOODS by KEITH AND IRENE SMITH To see other Bushfood books click here Softcover book in excellent condition apart from minor creasing at lower front corner. 140 pages published 1999. Think Italy - think pasta. Think India - think curry. Think Australia - now think bushfoods! Grow Your Own Bushfoods is the first-ever comprehensive and practical guide to growing and harvesting more than 140 kinds of Australian bushfoods right in your own back yard. Detailed plant profiles describe ideal growing conditions and characteristics of each species. In addition there are suggestions on the best ways to prepare and eat your bushfoods. A bushfood directory is also included which lists find out more.....
Absalom's Used book Mabey Outback John hardcover Jack

JACK ABSALOM'S OUTBACK by JOHN MABEY Jack and Reg Asbalom's Outback Cooking in the Camp Oven is also available click here Used hardcover book with dustjacket both in very good condition 112 pages. Published 1981. Name inside front cover no other writing marked torn loose or missing pages. Includes many colour photographs throughout the book. Jack Absalom has spent a lot of his life living and working in the remote outback of central Australia. He can enthuse almost anyone with his wonderful stories of the outback and also appal his audience with factual accounts of heartbreak and tragedy the same country can influct on even the most experienced traveller. In the early 1980s the ABC's Rural D more information.....

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