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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 $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Bruce Chatwin—author of In Patagonia—ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aborginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of New South Wales: by Beverley Kingston Publisher Comments How New South Wales has developed and differentiated itself from other Australian states.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road From Coorain by Jill Kathryn Conway Synopsis Jill Ker Conway grew up in New South Wales in the 1940s and '50s. This is her account of an Australian childhood in the outback, and subsequently in Sydney, encompassing family tragedy, a devastating struggle with the desert environment, and an evocation... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs (Reshaping Australian Institutions) by Tony Bennett Publisher Comments Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sydney Harbour: A History by Ian Hoskins Publisher Comments Ambitious and wide-ranging, this sweeping history of one of the worlds most recognized landmarks explores every aspect of Sydney Harbor through studies of its natural, human, and cultural history. Revealing why Sydney Harbor has been a defining... (read more) Your price: $35.95 New - Trade Paper
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Recovery from the Depression 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 $186.50 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral by Mark Tredinnick Synopsis Located in the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney, the Blue Plateau is a contrary collection of canyons and creeks, cow paddocks and eucalyptus forests, the first people and ranchers. This book reveals the plateau through its inhabitants: the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Road from Coorain: An Autobiography by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments In A Memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood -- a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart. She was... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Birth of Sydney (99 Edition) by Tim (ed.) Flannery Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss Publisher Comments The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Australians: Origins to Eureka by Thomas Keneally Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the outstanding first volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history of Australia brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed Australia's national story Convicts and... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Australian History for Dummies by Alex Mcdermott Publisher Comments Discover how a penal colony became one of the world's most prosperous nations Want to be in the driver's seat as you explore the important events of Australia's past and present? Let this fun and informative book serve as your tour guide, introducing you... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Explorers (98 Edition) by Tim (ed.) Flannery Publisher Comments In this lively collection of stories of adventure and discovery, "The Explorers" tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Flannery presents 67 accounts that convey the sense of wonder along with the dimensions of struggle.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mutiny, Terrorism, Riots and Murder: A History of Sedition in Australia and New Zealand by Kevin Baker Book News Annotation Baker (management, U. of Applied Science, Bonn, Germany, and U. of Sichuan, China) examines civil and military unrest in Australia and New Zealand from European colonization to 2005. He describes rioting during the nineteenth century, including the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Australian Cultural History by Francis Barrymore Smith Publisher Comments Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history. The diverse and distinguished authors range across religion, literature, history, popular ideas, painting, ballet, patronage and... (read more) List Price $44.75 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Singing Line: Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Victorian Ancestors by Alice Thomson Publisher Comments A charming true-life romantic adventure about a pair of young British couples--one hundred fifty years apart--braving the exotic rigors of the Australian Outback The Singing Line is a wondrous narrative that combines the historical adventure of Longitude... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia by Warwick Anderson Publisher Comments In nineteenth-century Australia, the main commentators on race and biological differences were doctors. But the medical profession entertained serious anxieties about the possibility of "racial denigration" of the white population in the new land, and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.50 New - Hardcover
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Terra Nullius (07 Edition) by Lindqvist Publisher Comments "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races."—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man "Terra nullius"—no man's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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