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A Single Tree by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
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. A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse ...Show more
American Journeys by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek's 50 'What to Read Now and Why' titles.Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
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: Gift and Humour | 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
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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 Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land – a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers. ‘How to sum up this story? It’ ...Show more
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious) by Don Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are - and who we are likely to become. Don Watson's The Story of Australia is a modern history of our nation that integrates new understandings about Ind ...Show more
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
Watsonia - A Writing Life by Don Watson
$54.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies
'When you write speeches for other people for a living, any audience is a good audience. I address walls and poultry: I stand on a wheelbarrow and give after-dinner speeches as the moon rises over the fowl yard. I say, Eight and a half generations of you fowls I have known. The chooks treat it as a dive ...Show more