Since 1995 the Friends' Australiana Publications sub-committee has produced over thirty high quality titles, including reproductions of important Australian works that help chart our history.
Elegantly produced and highly collectible, these superbly illustrated hard-cover limited editions make our history available to local, national and international audiences. Paperback versions of some titles are also available, and Friends, of course, get advance notice of each title's publication, as well as a discount.
Elegantly produced and highly collectible, these superbly illustrated hard-cover limited editions make our history available to local, national and international audiences. Paperback versions of some titles are also available, and Friends, of course, get advance notice of each title's publication, as well as a discount.
FLIGHT AND ADVENTURES of Parer & McIntosh
STONES OF FIRE by MINNIE BERRINGTON
From 1926, for over 20 years, Minnie Berrington was an opal mining pioneer in both Coober Pedy and Andamooka. This fascinating memoir of her life of back-breaking toll in a man's world, published in 1958, has long been out-of-print.
Stones of Fire is now to be republished in a new modern edition, with a Foreword by Rachel Berrington and an Introduction by Stuart Wattison.
UNDER THE NORTH POLE
Sir Hubert Wilkins
The Friends of the State Library SA have re-pubished Wilkins' 1931 "Under the North Pole" with additional material.
This exciting account of his plans to take a submarine under the north polar ice cap contains his reminiscences of growing up in SA's mid-north - learning the skills which served him so well in his amazing life: horsemanship, survival and resourcefulness, even a spiritual aspect from his close association with the local Indigenous people.
