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A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
"A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom of Modern Management by Don Watson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Business & Finance
Mission statements are everywhere: you have to have one, whether you're a Fortune 500 company, a hedge fund, a primary school, a church or a hockey club. Without a mission statement, who would know what your values are, or what your culture is? And how then, going forward, will you get buy-in on your st ...Show more
Beyond Reasonable Drought by Don Watson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
There has been nothing like it in living memory. Theories about cycles and seasons struggle to explain it. It is beyond reasonable drought. Early this century, a group of photographers crisscrossed the nation, and captured a seismic shift in the way Australians were living their lives. Caught in these p ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Words & Writing
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
On Indignation( On Series) by Don Watson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse | Series: On Ser.
Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos, from the Old Testament to ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen. Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the "thicket of unreality" that is the American media. Behin ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Specials
If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's work ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson (Read by); Hamish Hamilton
$49.95 AUD
Category: Specials
Bestselling authorWinner NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Book of the Year Award 2015"Watson's magnificent, celebratory, contradictory study of the Australian bush will challenge the national imagination." --Thomas Keneally, winner of the Booker PrizeAn unputdownable journey, showcasing Watson's trademar ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...Show more
The Bush - Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more