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Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
Cayley and Son: The Life and Art of Neville Henry Cayley and Neville William Cayley by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian art
The classic field guide What Bird Is That? has been known to bird enthusiasts throughout Australia for decades, ever since it was first published in 1931. It was written and illustrated by Neville William Cayley (18861950), son of artist Neville Henry Cayley (18541903) who, before him, had also had drea ...Show more
Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Birds
The Budgerigar is arguably Australia’s best-known bird. At the same time, it is so ubiquitous that not everyone knows that it is Australian. Nor do many realise that the multicoloured bird that comes to mind — not to mention today’s super-sized, extravagantly coiffed show budgie — is as different from t ...Show more
Flocks of Colour by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Birds
What name could be a more apt description of Australia than The Land of Parrots, a name inspired by late sixteenth-century maps showing a southern region labelled Psittacorum regio? This beautiful book takes a close look at parrots in Australia, from the first published illustration of an Australian par ...Show more
Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes by ATKINSON, LOUISA
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art
Nineteenth-century writer and journalist Louisa Atkinson was a remarkable woman. She was the author, at the age of 23, of the first novel penned by a native-born woman to be published in Australia. She was also a keen naturalist, whose close observations and detailed knowledge of the natural world found ...Show more
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