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Walkabout Year: Twelve Months in Australia by Samuel F. Pickering Publisher Comments "Reading Pickering," said Smithsonian, "is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." In Walkabout Year, Samuel Pickering, the professor who inspired the movie Dead Poets Society, provides an intimate, engaging chronicle... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia (Studies in Australian History) by Jan Todd Publisher Comments Australia has always imported overseas technology, largely out of necessity, but has this been exploitative, fostering a relationship of dependence, or used to Australia's advantage? Jan Todd explores this question in the context of nineteenth-century... (read more) List Price $117.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Carrying the Banner by Joan Eveline Synopsis Stirred by their passion for a cause, twenty-two Australian women reveal new ways of doing leadership. Their diverse backgrounds and behind-the-scenes stories show the dramas and frustrations which color women's experience in the public eye. In politics... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The English Dane: A Life of Jorgen Jorgenson. Sarah Bakewell by Sarah Bakewell Publisher Comments Subtitled, "A Story Of Empire & Adventure". A ripping naval yarn set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars in Europe and the colonising of Tasmania.... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Cunning of Recognition by Elizabeth A. Povinelli Publisher Comments The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $9.95 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 $50.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Impressions of Australia (Impressions of) by Aa Publishing Publisher Comments Featuring stunning photographs and articles by local travel experts, these breath-taking volumes highlight some of the worlds most popular tourist destinations. Each guide offers insight into the landscapes, cultures, people, and architecture of the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments New edition published as part of the Vintage Classics series.... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Place by Sally Morgan Publisher Comments Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture. Sally Morgan traveled to her grandmothers birthplace, starting... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments Story of the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Australians: Eureka to the Diggers by Thomas Keneally Publisher Comments The second volume of bestselling author Thomas Keneally's unique trilogy of Australian history in which people are always center stage In the continuation of an impeccably researched, engagingly written people's history, this is the story... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Farewell To Nippon by Sato Machiko Synopsis This study presents an ethnographic account of a fresh breed of emigrants who have left Japan to settle in Australia in pursuit of a better quality of life. They differ from "economic migrants" who went overseas before the 1970s for economic reasons but... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 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 $19.95 Your price: $4.95 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee by Chloe Hooper Publisher Comments In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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Sean & David's Long Drive (Lonely Planet Journeys) by Sean Condon Publisher Comments Sean Condon is young, urban and a connoisseur of hair wax. He can't drive, and he doesn't really travel well. So when Sean and his friend David set out to explore Australia in a duck-egg blue 1966 Ford Falcon, the result is a decidedly offbeat look at... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Glass: Western Australian Courts of Native Affairs 1936-54 by Kate Auty Publisher Comments Between 1936 and 1954, the Western Australian government operated Courts of Native Affairs that heard murder and manslaughter cases where defendant and victim were Aboriginal. These cases--which, for every other citizen, had the status of Supreme Court... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road from Coorain 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 $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me by Alice Pung Publisher Comments After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir—already an award- winning... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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