THE SECRET WAR
A True History of Queensland's Native Police
by Jonathan Richards

Aboriginal troopers – led by white officers – formed Queensland’s Native Police: a much-feared force that was responsible for the deaths of large numbers of Aboriginal people. Secretive by nature, their workings have long been misunderstood. They would often burn their victims and not report their ‘dispersals’ – a euphemism for mass murders and reprisal killings. But historian Jonathan Richards has spent years studying and documenting the force’s brutal dispossession of Aboriginal people from their land. The Secret War is the culmination of his work and is the latest salvo in the History Wars that sees historians, politicians and writers arguing over the extent of Indigenous deaths in frontier clashes. It is an authoritative and groundbreaking contribution to our country’s white settlement history.

First edition 2008, cardcover 308pages, BW photos, map & index,
ISBN 978-0-7022-3639-6

$50.00

EYE CONTACT
Photographing Indigenous Australians
by Jane Lydon

The Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was opened near Melbourne in Victoria in the 1860s. The photographs taken at Coranderrk were circulated across the western world; they were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic data within museum collections. Jane Lydon reveals how western society came to understand Aboriginal people through these images. At the same time the same time, she demonstrates that the photos were not solely a tool of colonial exploitation. The residents of Coranderrk had a sophisticated understanding of how they were portrayed, and they became adept at manipulating their representations.
First edition, 2005, cardcover, 304 pages, map, index, B&W and colour reproductions of original photos, ISBN 0-8223-3572-7

$55.00

PORTRAITS OF OUR ELDERS
by Michael Aird

Portraits of Our Elders is an important collection of studio photographs of Aborigines taken from the 1860s to the 1920s. This book accompanied the Queensland Museum's exhibition Portraits of our Elders which travelled extensively throughout the 1990s. Michael Aird has compiled photographs from the exhibition as well as others from private collections. Through these photographs you can look into the eyes of these elders and ask yourself about the lives thay may have lived. These photographs give an insight into the changes in Europeans perceptions of Aborigines and of Aborigines' perceptions of themselves.
First edition 1993, cardcover 72 pages, fine art paper, fully illustrated
ISBN 0 7242 57179

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PHOTOGRAPHIES OTHER HISTORIES
edited by Christopher Pinney & Nicolas Peterson

This collection essays is firmly grounded in photographic practice, in the actual making of pictures, they deal with extraordinary diversity of non-Western photography. Featured are a selection of papers that were presented at the Looking Through Photographs conference that was held at the Queensland Museum in 1998. Includes essays by Jo-Anne Driessens, Michael Aird, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Roslyn Poignant, James Farris, Morris Low, Nicolas Peterson, Christopher Wright, Deborah Poole, Christopher Pinney, Heike Behrend and Stephen Sprague.

First edition 2003, cardcover, 278 pages, fully illustrated with B&W photos, index,
ISBN 0 808223 3113 6

$50.00

ENCOUNTER AT NAGALARRAMBA
by Roslyn Poignant with Axel Poignant

A book documenting Axel Poignant's photographic expedition to Liverpool River, Arnhem Land in 1952. This expedition set in motion one of the most remarkable diplomatic initiatives by Aborigines in the history of colonisation. Encounter at Nagalarramba is a splendid celebration of the quest for human dignity through mutual understanding. Text by Roslyn Poignant and photos by Axel Poignant with detailed captions written in diary format.
first edition 1996 cardcover, 170 pages, fully illustrated with BW photos
(Limited Stock) ISBN 0 642 10665 7

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OLD MAN FOG
and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point
by John B. Haviland with Roger Hart

Weaving together Roger Hart's childhood recollections, the myths of Old Man Fog, and excerpts from Government and missionary records, John Haviland reconstructs the rich, complicated history of the Barrow Point people and their removal to the Hopevale Mission, during a period when traditional Aboriginal life was being systematically dismantled. The book is illustrated with the artwork of Tulo Gordon.
1999, cardcover, 226 pages, illustrated in B&W and colour, index
ISBN 1-86333-169-7

$30.00

THE CULTIVATION OF WHITENESS
Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia
by Warwick Anderson

The Cultivating of Whitness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through to World War II. Chronicling the extensive use of biological theories and practices in the construction and "Protection" of whiteness. Warwick Anderson describes how displaced "Britishness" (or whiteness) was defined by scientists and doctors in relation to a harsh, strange environment and in oppostion to other races. He also provides the first account of extensive scientific experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on poor whites in tropical Australia and on Aboriginal people in central Australia.
First edition, 2003, card cover, 390 pages, index, maps, B&W photos. ISBN 0-8223-3840-8

$50.00

MY BUNDJALUNG PEOPLE
By Ruby Langford Ginibi

When Ruby Langford Ginibi was eight years old her father collected his daughters from Box Ridge mission, and drove them to safety out of reach of the white authorities and the policy of removing Aboriginal children from their families. As an established author and activist Ruby travels back to her home in Bundjalung country to trace and record the history of her community and her roots. The reader is taken aboard the journey home, down the backroads of Northern New South Wales into homes and conversations of cousins, auntie's and tribal elders.

First edition 1994 cardcover, 220 pages, B&W photos, glossary
ISBN 0 7022 2637 8

$20.00

BURIED COUNTRY
The Story of Aboriginal Country Music
by Clinton Walker

To some, black skin and country music may seem unlikely bedfellows. But from early stars like Jimmy Little and Herb Laughton through Dougie and Wilga Williams to Vic Sims, Bob 'Brown Skin baby' Randal, Bobby McLeod, Issac Yama and Roger Knox. Aboriginal country music is a very real phenomenon. A long rich tradition that's still alive today in Troy Cassar-Daley and Archie Roach.
2000, cardcover, 323 pages, index, illustrated with rare photos and memorabilia.(Limited Stock)
ISBN 1 86403152 2

$40.00

BAD COLONISTS
The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke
by Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves

Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting seperate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-centrury British colonists.The authors have presented the letters, that are mostly addressed to the colonists mothers, with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific. Using critical anthropology and theories of history-making to view the letter as artefact and autobiography, they examine the process whereby men and women eroded in the midst of the hot, violent, uncivil colonial mileu.
First edition, 1999, card cover, 164pages, B&W photos, maps, ISBN 0-8223-2222-6

$40.00

THE CUNNING OF RECOGNITION
Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australia Multiculturalism
by Elizabeth A. Povinelli

The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian Indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonised subjects identify with their colonisers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture. Povinelli draws on seventeen years of ethnographic research, native title claims, as well as on public records, legal debates, and anthropological archives to examine how multicultural forms of recognition work to reinforce liberal regimes rather than to open them up to a true cultural democracy. The Cunning of Recognition argues that the inequity of liberal forms of multiculturalism arises not from its weak ethical commitment to difference but from its strongest vision of a new national cohesion. In the end, Australia is revealed as an exemplary site for studying the social effects of the liberal multicultural imaginary: much earlier than the United States and in response to very different geopolitical conditions, Australian nationalism renounced the ideal of a unitary European tradition and embraced cultural and social diversity.

First edition 2002, card cover, 340pages, cover artwork by Judy Watson, (Limited Stock) ISBN 978-0-8223-2868-1

$50.00

ABORIGINAL STARS OF THE TURF
Jockeys of Australian racing history
by John Maynard

This book tells of the authors passion and desire to play a small part in the process of revealing another important missing chapter in Australian Aboriginal history. The Aboriginal riders in this book are just racing a few of the many great jockeys who have ridden through Australia's racing history.
2003, revised edition, cardcover, 144 pages, BW photographs
(Limited stock) ISBN 0 85575 451 6

$25.00

RIVER GIRL
by Glenda Andrew

Glenda Andrew tells of childhood fun, teenage fears and family hopes in a changing world. Grandchild of Pastor Doug Nicholls, Glenda was encouraged by her family to research her family three and write down her memoir of life on the Murray River. Her childhood years years are set in a historical contxt. This memoir of growing up in the Victoria-New South Wales border region is enlivened by many photos and sketches.
First edition 2005, cardcover, 104pages BW photos, sketches, poems
(Limited stock) ISBN-1-86334-0130

$20.00

GIRROO GURRLL
The First Surveyor and other Aboriginal Legends
by Gladys Henry

A unique book featuring traditional legends from the Murray Upper and Tully region of north Queensland. The book is illustrated with the artwork of Tommy Warroon and drawings by Gladys Henry. A list of traditional words and meanings is also included.
second edition 1986, cardcover, 78 pages, map, wordlist, fully illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings (limited stock)

$30.00

SOUTH STRADBROKE ISLAND
by Lindy Salter

Local history of South Stradbroke Island. Spanning the period from the beginnings of European settlement through to the present. Includes stories of local identities and Aboriginal familes that have lived on the island.
Second edition 2002 cardcover, 140 pages, fully illustrated with maps and historic B&W photos
ISBN-0-9591168-1-8

$25.00

125 YEARS OF SCHOOLING ON THE COOMERA 1873-1998
by Gloria Coghill

A local history of the Coomera region focusing on the Coomera State School. Several past students have been interviewed and share their memories of the early settlement of the region and their association with the school.
First edition 1998, cardcover, 180 pages, B&W photos, maps, list of students
ISBN-0-646-35838-3

$20.00

THE CAPATAIN COOK ENCYCLOPEDIA
written and edited by John Robson

This encyclopedia aims to provide answers on all aspects of the life and voyages of Captain James Cook, and the people, places, events and ships associated with him. Researched and written by leading Cook experts, it both reflects the traditional views of Cook while incorporating the latest reassesments, especially noting the attitudes of the peoples of the Pacific on whose lives Cook made such an impact.
First edition 2004, hard cover with dust jacket, colour & B&W photographs, illustrations, maps, chronology, index (Limted Stock) ISBN 0-7593-1011-4

$40.00

THE FATAL VOYAGE
Captain Cook's Last Great Journey
by Peter Aughton

Captain Cook had captained two long voyages of discovery and had charted the east coast of Australia, New Zealand and innumerable islands in the Pacific. At the age of 47 he was awarded a comfortable pension for life and looked set to spend his retirement with his family in Greenwich. But after many years at sea he could not succumb to the monotony of life on shore. The Fatal Voyage is the story of his final epic journey when he led an expedition to search for the elusive North West Passage. He set sail from England in July 1776 but was never to return. He was killed in Hawaii in 1779.
First edition 2005, hard cover with dust jacket, colour illustrations, maps, index
ISBN 1-84437-050-X

$40.00