
Books by our Members
Our amazing members have collectively published a large library of books. Here is a catalogue of our members books, with links to where you can purchase. Enjoy your read!

The Unseen Anzac: How an Enigmatic Explorer Created Australia's World War I Photographs by Jeff K Maynard
Cameras were banned at the Western Front when the Anzacs arrived in 1916, prompting correspondent Charles Bean to argue continually for Australia to have a dedicated photographer. He was eventually assigned an enigmatic polar explorer - George Hubert Wilkins.

A Long Lens in Africa: Southern Africa by Wayne Osborn
A Long Lens in Africa - Southern Africa, is a black & white wildlife and landscape portfolio of our travels to Africa from 2009 to 2019. Its 826 pages trek through Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

African Birds: Birds of East & Southern Africa by Wayne Osborn
African Birds is a collection of our bird images from our frequent travels to the beguiling continent that is Africa. Recent revisions have added 52 new species from the Serengeti, South Africa and Namibia taken in July and August of 2018. Also another 27 new species from Zambia and Botswana taken in July 2019 appear in this edition. The end result is images of 344 bird species from Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

A Whale Tale by Wayne Osborn
A Whale Tale depicts a unique encounter with newborn sperm whales in the Azores. Rarely seen images were captured of the calves feeding and males baby-sitting the infants. The book and images have been presented in black and white.

Trains in the Sky by Ivan G. Hawthorn
Ivan Hawthorn's Trains in the Sky is a fascinating account of childhood as a young boy in the great drought and depression of 1930s outback Australia. Growing up in an all-male household, Ivan Hawthorn documents his boyhood years with his brothers, a wonderful insight into the deprivations and the challenges and the amazing resolve of the outback families during these difficult times.

Birds of Western Australia: A Few Feathers From The West by Pam Osborn
“She’s only a woman.” Pam was wading through the shallows of Perth’s Swan River photographing birds when a couple of passing lycra-clad cyclists opined on the foolishness of hand holding such a long lens without a tripod. “She’s only a woman” was their gratuitous observation.

Divers in Time Australia's Untold History by Jeff K Maynard
Australia's untold history of diving....From pearl divers to police divers-now Australia's untold history comes to the surface.

A Long Way Walkin’ in Australia by Tom Hayllar
Tom Hayllar is a teacher, writer, bushwalker, caver, and adventurer. He has climbed inaccessible mountains in New Guinea, explored remote cave systems in New Guinea and the Philippines, walked across isolated Himalayan and Nepalese high country, and trekked lonely stretches of Alaska.

Heading For Cape Horn by Peter Fields
In the southern summer of 1977-78 the author and two companions sailed a 47 foot sloop from New Zealand through the Southern Ocean to Cape Horn where they scuba dived; and on through the waterways, canals and fiords of Tierra del Fuego, the Magellan Straits and a thousand miles of Chilean Patagonia waterways.

The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota by Patricia Vickers-Rich
The Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic was a time punctuated by a series of significant events in Earth history. Glaciations of global scale wracked the planet, interfingered with dramatic changes in oceanic and atmospheric chemistry and marked changes in continental configuration.

Botswana - The Delta & Beyond by Wayne Osborn
Botswana – The Delta & Beyond is a collection of wildlife and landscape images from Pam and Wayne’s travels to one of the world’s great wilderness destinations.
Botswana has the world’s largest elephant population (around 130,000). It’s a wildlife photographer’s paradise with a strong environmental protection ethic and a zero tolerance to poaching. Whilst some poaching does occur, Botswana fares better than most of its neighbours.

Metamorphosea - A 24 Hour Sojoun on the Great Barrier Reef by Michael Aw
On 16 July 1995 on the Great Barrier Reef's "Temple of doom" bommie, five divers boldly went where none had gone before, embarking on an adventure that would push them to the limits. They would stay in a liquid space longer than any other terrestrial being in history, using oxygen enriched air to submerge themselves for 24 hours.

Trailblazers Australia's: 50 Greatest Explorers by Howard Whelan
Trailblazers: Australia’s 50 greatest explorers brings together 29 historic and 21 modern adventurers and explorers, including nine women.

Elysium Artists for the Arctic by Michael Aw
Elysium: Artists for the Arctic is about the passion of a group of 66 concerned global citizens from 19 countries. The team was comprised of some of our world's most well known and respected artists, cinematographers, explorers, photographers and scientists, as they set out to highlight the Arctic as the front line of climate change.
This beautiful hardback coffee table book features a foreword from Dr Sylvia Earle, an introduction by David Doubilet, and stunning photography by the award-winning artists who ventured on the expedition.

Tara Arctic A New Zealander's Epic Voyage by Grant Redvers
Tara Arctic is the story of a rather unlikely voyage spanning 21 years from conception to realisation. It is the story of an expedition in the yacht Tara, formerly Sir Peter Blake's boat, across the frozen Arctic Ocean, drifting out of control, not aimlessly but certainly lacking any definite idea of where they would end up or how long it would take. On board was a group of sailors, scientists, doctors, musicians, artists and journalists.

In Pursuit of Whales: An Accidental Obsession by Wayne Osborn
In Pursuit of Whales documents a 15 year photographic journey by Pam and Wayne Osborn following their passion for whale conservation. Images are from the Azores, Western Australia, The Great Barrier Reef, The Arctic Circle, Tonga and the Banda Sea.

Chasing Shackleton Recreating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival by Tim Jarvis
In this extraordinary adventure memoir, Tim Jarvis describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever, the legendary 1916 survival journey of Sir Ernest Shackleton – sailing a replica James Caird boat 1500kms across the Southern Ocean from Elephant Island, Antarctica to South Georgia and climbing over South Georgia’s mountainous interior using the same rudimentary equipment, period clothing and technology as Shackleton.

Underwater Jungles - Sarawak by Michael Aw
A journey through this heartland of biodiversity reveals that Sarah whack has been twice blessed: once with its inverted jungles clamouring with headhunters and Orangutang's and again with its secret underwater Gardens shrouded in the mist of the Borneo sea.

In the Ghost Country: A Lifetime Spent on the Edge by Peter Hillary
In the Antarctic summer of 1998-99, Peter Hillary and two companions skied to the South Pole - each man pulling a 440-pound sled 900 miles across some of the most forbidding country on earth. The plan was to complete the tragic journey of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, to the Pole and back. But under the pressure of a relentless media spotlight, fatal team chemistry, and food and fuel stores, the expedition fragmented into hostile isolation. Instead of completing Scott's journey, they found they were repeating it.

Kenya's Masai Mara: A Long Lens in the Mara by Wayne Osborn
‘The Mara’ is an iconic reserve of 1500 square kilometres in South-Western Kenya, part of the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem. It is perhaps best known for the annual 'Great Migration' of wildebeest and zebra herds from the Serengeti. These herds densely populate the Mara's grasslands from July to October. The Mara and Talek rivers are obstacles in the migration's path and 'the crossings' of the wildebeest are one of nature's great visual spectacles.