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Walkabout Year: Twelve Months in Australia
Walkabout Year: Twelve Months in Australia
by Samuel F. Pickering
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"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)

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Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia (Studies in Australian History)
Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia (Studies in Australian History)
by Jan Todd
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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)

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Carrying the Banner
Carrying the Banner
by Joan Eveline
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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)

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The English Dane: A Life of Jorgen Jorgenson. Sarah Bakewell
The English Dane: A Life of Jorgen Jorgenson. Sarah Bakewell
by Sarah Bakewell
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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)

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The Cunning of Recognition
The Cunning of Recognition
by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
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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)

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A History of New South Wales:
A History of New South Wales:
by Beverley Kingston
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How New South Wales has developed and differentiated itself from other Australian states.... (read more)

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Impressions of Australia (Impressions of)
Impressions of Australia (Impressions of)
by Aa Publishing
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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)

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The Songlines
The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
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New edition published as part of the Vintage Classics series.... (read more)

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My Place
My Place
by Sally Morgan
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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)

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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
by Inga Clendinnen
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Story of the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there.... (read more)

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Australians: Eureka to the Diggers
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers
by Thomas Keneally
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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)

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Farewell To Nippon
Farewell To Nippon
by Sato Machiko
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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)

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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
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 Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
by Deborah J Swiss
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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)

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Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee
Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee
by Chloe Hooper
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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)

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The Road From Coorain
The Road From Coorain
by Jill Kathryn Conway
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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)

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Sean & David's Long Drive (Lonely Planet Journeys)
Sean & David's Long Drive (Lonely Planet Journeys)
by Sean Condon
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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)

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Black Glass: Western Australian Courts of Native Affairs 1936-54
Black Glass: Western Australian Courts of Native Affairs 1936-54
by Kate Auty
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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)

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The Road from Coorain
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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Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me
Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me
by Alice Pung
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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)

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