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The Lizard Eaters: The Journy and Discovery of the Pintubi People by Douglas Lockwood The Lizard Eaters: The Journey and Discovery of the Pintubi People by Douglas Lockwood - Red Kangaroo Books
The Lizard Eaters: The Journy and Discovery of the Pintubi People by Douglas Lockwood
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Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert by Sue Davenport Cleared Out - first contact in the western desert by Sue Davenport - Red Kangaroo Books
Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert by Sue Davenport
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Dune is a Four-letter Word by Griselda Sprigg & Rod Maclean - Red Kangaroo Books
Dune is a Four-letter Word by Griselda Sprigg & Rod Maclean
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The log of Michael Terry - Compiled and annotated by Adrian Winwood-Smith and David Gibson
The log of Michael Terry - Compiled and annotated by Adrian Winwood-Smith and David Gibson
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GOLD TO GRASS by Arthur C. AshwinGOLD TO GRASS by Arthur C. Ashwin - Red Kangaroo Books
GOLD TO GRASS by Arthur C. Ashwin
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The Eagle and the Crow by J M Field
The Eagle and the Crow by J M Field
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Tracy: 50 Years, 50 Stories by Richard Creswick, Derek Pugh - Red Kangaroo Books - 9780645737417
Tracy: 50 Years, 50 St
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The Shortest History of Australia by Mark McKenna (out 4 November 2025)
The Shortest History of Australia by Mark McKenna
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Born in the Cattle by Ann McGrath - Red Kangaroo Books
Born in the Cattle by Ann McGrath
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Outback: The Discovery of Australia's Interior by Derek Parker
Outback: The Discovery of Australia's Interior by Derek Parker
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Singing The Coast by Tony Perkins and Margaret SomervilleSinging The Coast by Tony Perkins and Margaret Somerville - Red Kangaroo Books - 9780855757113
Singing The Coast by Tony Perkins and Margaret Somerville
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Packhorse & Waterhole by Gordon Buchanan - Red Kangaroo Books - 859052370
Packhorse & Waterhole by Gordon Buchanan
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Where the Ancestors Walked
Where the Ancestors Walked by Philip Clarke
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Convoys Up The Track byAlan Smith
Convoys Up The Track byAlan Smith
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On Hermit Hill: Benjamin Hersch by Rod TuckerOn Hermit Hill: Benjamin Herschel Babbage and the Lake Torrens Myth by Rod Tucker - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781922454652
On Hermit Hill: Benjamin Hersch by Rod Tucker
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True Tracks: respecting Indigenous Knowledge and culture by Terri Janke True Tracks: respecting Indigenous Knowledge and Culture - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781742236810
True Tracks: respecting Indigenous Knowledge and culture by Terri Janke
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On red earth Walking by Anne Scrimgeour
On Red Earth Walking by Anne Scrimgeour
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Pine Gap: NSA Eavesdropping Memoirs by David Rosenberg - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781098305901
Pine Gap: NSA Eavesdropping Memoirs by David Rosenberg
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The Power of Bones by Keelen Mailman
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Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia by Santilla Chingaipe
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A Dogger's Life by Ned Wilson
A Dogger's Life by Ned Wilson
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The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia by Melissa Harper - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781742236674
The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia by Melissa Harper
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A Record in Bone by Michelle C Langley - Red Kangaroo Books
A Record in Bone by Michelle C Langley
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The Wild North by Ion Idriess - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781923024304
The Wild North by Ion Idriess
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You Call it Desert We Used to Live There by Pat Lowe, Jimmy Pike - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781921248115
You Call it Desert We Used to Live There by Pat Lowe, Jimmy Pike
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The Spinifex is green - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781925167030
The Spinifex is green by Earl James AM
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Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New by Gari Tudor - Smith, Paul Williams, Felicity Meakins - Red Kangaroo Books
Bina: First Nations Languages by Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams & Felicity Meakins
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A Very Secret Trade by Cassandra Pybus - Red Kangaroo Books
A Very Secret Trade by Cassandra Pybus
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The History of Alice Springs through Landmarks and Street Names by Jose Petrick - Red Kangaroo Books - 9780646545714
The History of Alice Springs through Landmarks and Street Names by Jose Petrick
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Born in The Desert - Red Kangaroo Books
Born in The Desert by Mariom Hercock
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Savage Life in Central Australia - Red Kangaroo Books - 9780977503575
Savage Life in Central Australia
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Talking Sideways - Red Kangaroo Books - 9780702260407
Talking Sideways
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Flynn of the Inland by Ion Idress - Red Kangaroo Books
Flynn of the Inland by Ion Idress
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People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781760292232
People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens
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They Crossed a Continent HB - Red Kangaroo Books - 9780980351576
They Crossed a Continent HB
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1788 by David Hill - Red Kangaroo Books
1788 by David Hill
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The Secret of Emu Field by Elizabeth Tynan - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781742236957
The Secret of Emu Field by Elizabeth Tynan
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Survival in our own land edited and researched by Christobel Mattingley and Ken Hampton - Red Kangaroo Books
Survival in our own land edited and researched by Christobel Mattingley and Ken Hampton
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Diary. Walker Brothers Prospecting Expedition 1913 by David Nash and Jeremy Long - Red Kangaroo Books
Diary. Walker Brothers Prospecting Expedition 1913 by David Nash and Jeremy Long
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Northern Territory Reflections: 1970s and beyond
Northern Territory Reflections: 1970s and beyon
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The First Inventors by Billy Griffiths, Larissa Behrendt and Sean Ulm
The First Inventors by Billy Griffiths, Larissa Behrendt and Sean Ulm
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Desert Explorations. A History of the Central Deserts 1847-1929
Desert Explorations. A History of the Central Deserts 1847-1929
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Frontier Race Nation: Henry Reynolds
Frontier Race Nation: Henry Reynolds
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Missionaries, Madness and Miracles: The beginnings of Hermannsburg-Ntaria vol I
Missionaries, Madness and Miracles vol 1: The beginnings by Robert J Kempe
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Northern Voyages- Australia's Monsoon Coast in Maritime History
Northern Voyages- Australia's Monsoon Coast in Maritime History
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A Mere Impertinence by Ross Howie
A Mere Impertinence by Ross Howie
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This House of Grief by Helen GarnerThis House of Grief by Helen Garner - Red Kangaroo Books
This House of Grief by Helen Garner
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Larrimah by Stevenson Kylie Graham Caroline - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781760877835
Larrimah by Kylie Stevenson and Caroline Graham
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John Flynn by Ivan John Flynn: Of Flying Doctors and Frontier Faith - Red Kangaroo Books
John Flynn by Ivan John Flynn: Of Flying Doctors and Frontier Faith
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Once Upon a Time in Papunya by Vivien Johnson - Red Kangaroo Books - 9781742230078
Once Upon a Time in Papunya by Vivien Johnson
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