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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 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Doris Pilkington Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julia Blackburn
Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Trevor Lummis Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Hughes Synopsis "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) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roff Martin Smith Synopsis Illustrates the history, culture, landscapes, wildlife, and maritime of the continent of Australia.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Nile and Christian Clerk
Synopsis This guide for both intrepid and armchair travelers covers this diverse region of the Pacific and all its peoples and rich traditions.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rg Gregory Publisher Comments In Australian economic history, as in the nation's politics and culture, the Great Depression is a dominant theme. In this volume, an international group of economists and economic historians has collaborated to examine the ways in which Australia... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $15.90 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robyn Davidson Publisher Comments A cult classic with an ever-growing audience, Tracks is the brilliantly written and frequently hilarious account of a young woman's odyssey through the deserts of Australia, with no one but her dog and four camels as companions. Davidson emerges as a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kira Salak Publisher Comments A story of extraordinary danger and adventure follows a very young woman who attempts, alone, a trip across Papua, New Guinea, as she follows in the footsteps of British explorer Ivan Champion.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by Quentin Beresford Book News Annotation 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 $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Oakman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Global Investment & Publisher Comments Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers.Updated... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Davie Publisher Comments 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) Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bachman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W P Anderson Publisher Comments ""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 $23.95 Your price $13.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jason Kimberley Publisher Comments Australia Exposed is a beautifully designed photographic book containing vivid and evocative colour and black and white images of Australia taken by Jason Kimberley in 2000 while on a year long 4WD adventure with his wife, Caroline. He is a self-taught... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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