Andrew McMillan

Winner of the Chief Minister’s NT Book of the Year 2009
Shortlisted for the Chief Minister’s
NT History Book Award 2008

Andrew McMillan’s An Intruder’s Guide To East Arnhem Land is part history, part journalism, part literature, part love story with a people and a place. The writing is both edgy and contemporary; a narrative of history in remote Australia where the echoes of the past continue to resonate with us today. Passionate, sensitive, witty and surprising, this book will give you a sense of Australia and national identity you have never known before.

Arnhem Land: where the first (or even second or third) language is not English and you need to ask permission before travelling across country; where you have to demonstrate respect and observation of the laws of the land and its peoples but none of it is written down.

Andrew McMillan has spent decades visiting Arnhem Land, meeting, talking but mainly listening to people in a place that few outsiders visit. This book offers a unique insight.

from the foreword by Dr Mickey Dewar

RRP $29.95  ISBN 978-0-9803904-1-4

198 x 128 mm | 320 pages | 310 gms

Andrew McMillan

Andrew has been invited to participate in the 2009 Sydney, Melbourne,
Alice Springs and Brisbane Writers’ Festivals

Its 1986, Midnight Oil and the Warrumpi Band hit the road for a 6 week tour through some of the remotest communites in the Australian outback. An aspiring music journalist hitches a ride, ostensibly to sell cassettes and T-shirts. Strct Rules: The Blackfella-Whitefella Tour is the story of that trip.

“In the Western Desert of Australia the land takes hostages. Freedom is regained slowly, often imperceptibly: vanities must be shed, wisdom must be drawn, humility learned. Time moves forward, but only in grinding tectonic shifts, unnoticed by squinting intruders with too much noise in their heads.

Twenty-two years ago the young men in Midnight Oil were held hostage by the land. It was only for four weeks, but none of us was ever the same again.”

from the foreword by
Midnight Oil drummer and songwriter, Rob Hirst

RRP $24.95  ISBN 978-09803904-2-1

198 x 128mm | 320 pages | 310 gms

Andrew McMillan

Rescues, exciting missions and other stories about the famous Australian flying boats of WWII

Here is a personal history of the RAAF Catalina Flying boats based in Cairns, Karumba, Darwin and Melville Bay during World War II, and the men who flew and looked after them. This is the story of men from southern Australia trhrown into a hostile landscape, and their confrontations with tropical conditions, Aboriginal tribesmen, Yanks, air raids on Darwin, boredomand terror, sharks and of course the Japanese. Andrew McMillan has visited the bases, consulted the archives, and talked to many of the men involved.

RRP $21.95    ISBN 1-876631-28-7

198 x 128 mm | 216 pages | 165 gms

Revised and Updated
Contains over 20 new anchorages!

by Leslie P. Richards

Leslie Richards has spent over 20 years sailing across Northern Australia noting and recording safe anchorages along one of the worlds most pristine coasts.

This is a must have resource for anyone considering sailing across the top of Northern Australia and contains details of over 180 anchorages. Each entry includes cross reference to relevant navigation and Australian National Tide Tables, a description of the anchorage, and a mud map.

This book is the only guide to cover the Northern Australian Coast including the Gulf of Carpentaria; if you plan to cruise over the top this book is essential!

RRP $70

ISBN 978-0-9803904-3-8

| 210 x 148 mm | 326 pages | 450 gms

Revised and updated
Covers the Kimberly Coast

by Leslie P.  Richards

Leslie Richards has spent over 20 years sailing across Northern Australia noting and recording safe anchorages along one of the worlds most pristine coasts. This is must have resource for anyone considering sailing along the north-west coast of Australia and contains details of over 130 anchorages. Each entry includes cross reference to relevant navigation charts, Australian National Tide Tables, a description of the anchorage, and a mud map.

If you plan to cruise over the top this book is essential!

RRP $70

ISBN 978-0-9803904-4-5

| 210 x 148 mm | 252 pages | 350 gms

Contains over 200 recipes 
covering over 40 tropical fruits
and vegetables
 

You’ve got an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables from your garden or perhaps you’ve just discovered a new tropical vegetable at your local market. 

Published by Greening Australia NT

Available early 2010

by Maria Kraatz, Peter Jacklyn & Mike Clark

RRP $66.00

ISBN: 978-1-875345-878

220 x 240 mm | 274 pages | 940 gms

Published by Greening Australia  NT and NTRETA

The Mangrove Plant Identikit introduces you to 51 of the plants that are commonly found in mangroves areas in the Northern Territory. The Mangrove flora of the Northern Territory is diverse and distinctive. Mangrove communities are important ecologically and for indigenous people. The variety of Aboriginal knowledge associated with mangroves is complex and fascinating

$10.00

ISBN 0-7245-4455-0

Published by Greening Australia  NT and NTRETA

The mangrove communities of the Northern Territory are floristically diverse and contain 51 species; they cover over 4000 kilometres of the NT Coastline and river systems and comprise over one third of Australia’s total mangrove resource. They are the most pristine mangroves in Australia and probably the world.

$20.00

ISBN 0-7245-4876-9

Published by David Hancock

RRP $34.95

Published by David Hancock

RRP $39.95