NORTHERN TERRITORY BOOKS

This is the second edition of a landmark book originally released in July 2018 which represents the culmination of decades of work describing the e...

What is a Disaster? Addresses the most basic question in the field: that of defining the phenomenon of study. For theoretical advancement, it is im...

Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry...

This publication is part of a broader research project that continues to throw light principally on the migration, settlement and adaptation of Gre...

The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day - courage, mates...

For many of the Royal Marines sent to Port Essington, life was a living hell of malaria, scurvy, termites, shipwrecks, cyclones, boredom, isolation...

Thomas Mayor is a Torres Strait Islander man born on Larrakia country in Darwin. As an Islander growing up on the mainland, he learned to hunt trad...

Bush nurse and wife at Batchelor, living area for Rum Jungle Mine By Janie Mason, RN Msc University Fellow & Nursing Museum Curator Charles Dar...

 Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it i...

A car crash in the Central Desert. A broken man, about to leave his wife, who has a deep, dark secret of her own. Broken entwines the stories of th...

Red Dirt Scrawl is a collection of poems written for, inspired by, and read during the successive 2018 and 2020 Red Dirt Poetry Festivals. It provi...

 Tennant Creek and Australia's Unresolved PastThe tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a...

 When many voices are joined together, with courage, change can happen. In 1966, more than two hundred courageous Aboriginal people walked off the ...

Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land manage...

You have to wait 75 years to see Halley's Comet again. And ten years to see (and smell) the giant corpse flower bloom. But for the second time in l...

This is the story of the birth of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory.

Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the govern...

We used to sit by the river and watch the sun setting behind the mountains, sometimes, and say what a marvellous place it would be to come for a ho...