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A Botanical Life: Robert David Fitzgerald by Penny Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Robert David Fitzgerald (1830-1892) was a successful colonial surveyor who had arrived in Australia in 1856 as a young Irish immigrant of 25. He was employed by the Lands Department in New South Wales and, although he was an exemplary public servant, he was also one of the last of the Victorian-era gent ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
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: Fiction
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
Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird Art by Penny Olsen
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia — from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today. It explores the early European approach, in which naval draughtsmen, officers, convicts, settlers, n ...Show more
Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
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
Have You Seen My Egg? by Penny Olsen
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eddy Emu has lost one of his eggs. He travels far and wide, looking for it. Has Lizzie Lizard seen it? Has Susie Spider found it? Is it among Connie Crocodile's eggs? Can Pip and Poppy Penguin help him? Join Eddy on his search and meet his friends. See all their different eggs and then lift the flap to ...Show more
Have You Seen My Egg? by Penny Olsen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range 2 to 5 Eddy Emu has lost one of his eggs. He travels far and wide, looking for it. Has Lizzie Lizard seen it? Has Susie Spider found it? Is it among Connie Crocodile’s eggs? Can Pip and Poppy Penguin help him? Join Eddy on his search and meet his friends. See all their different eggs and the ...Show more
Night Parrot - Australia's Most Elusive Bird by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For well over a century, the Night Parrot lured its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback. From the beginning it was a mystery bird. Fewer than 30 specimens were collected before it all but disappeared, offering only fleeting glimpses and the occasional mummified body as proof of its continued exi ...Show more
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