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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
From Powells.com
"Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us. Three billion year old fossilized organisms off the western coast; a giant lobster on the side of a highway; empty, forbidding spaces... In a... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.50
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
by Robert Hughes
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Here is history on an epic scale — a riveting, brilliantly written account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. Eighty years lay between the landing at Botany Nay in 1788... ( read more)
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The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
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One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman. The Road From Coorain is about Everywoman, for it is about childhood loneliness, anguished parent-child relationships, dawning sensibility... ( read more)
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True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway
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With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story.
She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by... ( read more)
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
by Doris Pilkington
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The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home.
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by... ( read more)
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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account
by Peter Carey
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“This is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... it’s so good it takes your breath away.”—Times (UK) After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character... ( read more)
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Australia Journey Through a Timeless Lan
by Roff Martin Smith
Synopsis
Illustrates the history, culture, landscapes, wildlife, and maritime of the continent of Australia.... ( read more)
Your price: $9.95
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The Birth of Sydney
by Tim F Flannery
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The story of the founding and rise to prominence of one of the world's greatest cities -- Sydney, Australia, site of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Blending together the writings of early Australian settlers, leaders, journalists, and explorers, in The... ( read more)
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among Aborigines
by Julia Blackburn
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In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating... ( read more)
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Salinity Crisis Landscapes Communities &
by Quentin Beresford
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Co-authored by specialists in public policy, environmental geography,
Australian politics, and anthropology, the volume examines how
Australia's salinity crisis developed through years of massive land-
clearing programs and denial of the problem by... ( read more)
Your price: $8.00
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Pacific Paradises Pacific Paradises
by Trevor Lummis
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In Hawaii, a similar story unfolded. Discovered by Captain Cook in 1776, it was a larger centre of trade and commerce than Tahiti and its ultimate fate was a matter of greater international importance, involving Britain, America, France and Russia... ( read more)
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Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan
by Daniel Oakman
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In the early 1950s, Australia embarked on its most ambitious attempt to engage with Asia: The Colombo Plan. This book examines the public and private agendas behind Australia's foreign aid diplomacy and reveals the strategic, political and cultural aims... ( read more)
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Fatal Shore
by Robert Hughes
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"The Fatal Shore" reveals the full extent of Australia's role as the concentration camp of Georgian England, and in doing so has set new standards in the writing of narrative history... ( read more)
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Micronesia Country Study Guide
by Global Investment &
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Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers.Updated... ( read more)
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Australia: A Continent Revealed
by Thea Coetzee
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Coffee-table book that is divided into five chapters on the geographic regions of the country. There is a short introduction at the beginning of the book and at the start of each chapter. Many of the photographs are double page spreads and they are... ( read more)
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Anglo Australian Attitudes
by Michael Davie
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One hundred years after the six Australian colonies voted to become a Federation, the country is struggling with the idea of a republic and a new Constitution and coming to terms with its tangled British legacy. Michael Davie examines this strange... ( read more)
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
by Geraldine Brooks
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As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe,... ( read more)
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Australian Colors: Images of the Outback
by Bill Bachman
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For more than two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman explored the unique beauty of this mystical terrain, returning with the more than 300 dazzling, and sometimes perplexing, photographs featured in Australian Colors. The entertaining text he weaves... ( read more)
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Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific
by Richard Nile and Christian Clerk
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This guide for both intrepid and armchair travelers covers this diverse region of the Pacific and all its peoples and rich traditions.... ( read more)
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia
by W P Anderson
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""The Cultivation of Whiteness" is a beautifully written, extensively researched, and conceptually robust account of what it meant to be white in Australia from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century."--Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of "The... ( read more)
List Price $29.95
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