On Hermit Hill: Benjamin Hersch by Rod Tucker

On Hermit Hill: Benjamin Hersch by Rod TuckerBenjamin Herschel Babbage was a South Australian engineer, surveyor and explorer. In 1858, he stood on Hermit Hill, near Kati Thanda Lake Eyre (South), and recognised that there was a gap in a mythical horseshoe shaped Lake Torrens that the explorer Edward John Eyre had conceived sixteen years earlier. Babbage's discovery was a crucial step in opening northern South Australia to European settlement and paved the way for John McDouall Stuart's crossing

This is the third Stripey children's picture book by award-winning Western Australian author/artist Wendy Binks

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Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY'Superb

and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine

bestselling author of The Wreck'A fascinating and evocative story of an enduring friendship between two women who played such an important role in colonial Australia's history

and use your energy where it countsAdopt a mindful

Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation

a secretive and eccentric old man

transported to the other side of the world

The heart of Australia contains a wealth of treasures: red-walled gorges

this engaging book brings together the personal and the universal and reminds us of the centrality of friendships in our lives

united and – until God seems to turn his back on their boy Fish – religious