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A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Non 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. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | 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
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
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: 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
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious) by Don Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Children's 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: Non Fiction
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
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale... Watsonia collects the fruits of a writing life. It covers everything from Australian bush humour to America gone berserk; from Don Bradman to Oscar Wilde; from Animal Farmto the Australian parliament. Wher ...Show more
Worst Words: A Compendium for Our Times by Don Watson; Helen Smith (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Dr Don Watson - with his trademark wit and wisdom - says enough already! The English language is complex and evolving, and can win minds, hearts and nations. Why don't we try using it?Depending where you are on the change continuum, a quick pulse check will be in order and a scan of the forthcoming weat ...Show more
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