by Nicholas Smith

This is a great book for gardeners in the dry tropics of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and northern Queensland. It includes information on over 140 stunning Top End native plants and cyclone-resistant trees, together with 276 pages of beautiful images to inspire your garden design.

ISBN: 1-875345-79-5

220 x 240 mm | 274 pages | 1165 gms

Conservation Farming and Grazing Systems for the Semi-Arid Tropics of the Northern Territory

Fergal O’Gara

Striking the Balance 2^nd Edition, is a book which outlines the practices and principles of sustainable farming and grazing systems in the Semi-arid Topics of the NT. Book outlines the unique physical environment of the Top End  and explains why  sustainable farming and  grazing practice are imperative in the light of climate change and its potential consequences for northern Australia. The Book covers grazing practice, soil conservation,  irrigation and water use in detail using  easy to understand language and full colour  illustrations. The importance of soil protection, vegetative cover and conservation farming is described from a regional and global perspective. Protecting the soil through good farming and livestock management is a rare win/win situation for the producer, the wider community and the environment. This practical and attractive book helps explain how and why.

Published by NT Agricultural Association and  NT Dept. of Resources

RRP $45

ISBN:  978-0-64652734-5

297 x 210 | 159 pp | 450gms

by Sunil Dhanji

Learn to identify and control the more common weeds of Central Australia and the arid zone. This 104 page comprehensive and accessible field guide will also be useful to residents of Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia who share the arid zone with those of us in the southern Northern Territory. With full colour images, detailed descriptions for identification, impact ratings for each species and weed management and control information, this publication will be of interest to local residents and land managers alike.

Published by Greening Australia NT

RRP $25.00

ISBN: 978-1-875345-83-0

| 210 x 152 mm | 104 pages | 280 gms

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Published by Greening Australia NT

by Andy Vinter & Felicity Forth.

A must for anyone planning a garden in the drier inland areas of Australia, this book features over 100 spectacular Central Australian plants that will survive arid conditions with little water or fertiliser. The easy-to-follow selection guide and 96 pages of beautiful images will inspire gardeners and landscapers.

$33.00

ISBN: 1-875345-78-7

220 x 240 mm | 96 pages | 480 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

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. 

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