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True North: A Memoir 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 
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Myth of the Great Depression by David Potts Synopsis While most narratives of the Great Depression chronicle the pain and struggles of the common folk, this account takes a drastically different approach--telling stories of health and happiness in the 1930s. In Australia, as in most of the world, the Great... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - 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 $13.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wise Women of the Dreamtime by K. Langloh (edt) Parker Publisher Comments WOMAN'S STUDIES / MYTHOLOGY / ABORIGINAL CULTUREExtending deep into the caverns of humanity's oldest memories, beyond 60,000 years of history and into the Dreamtime, this collection of Australian Aboriginal myths has been passed down through the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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South Australian Words: From Bardi-Grubs to Frog Cakes by Dorothy Jauncey Publisher Comments This new reference is a collection of words that are associated in different ways with South Australia--those in the book's title represent both the oldest and the newest cultures in the state.... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia by Alan Day Book News Annotation Day (library and information studies, Manchester Metropolitan U.) cites people, places, events, and other features related to the voyages of discovery and the inland explorations that were instrumental in adding Australia to the British Empire. He... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam by Robert F Rogers Publisher Comments Ferdinand Magellan's fateful landfall on Guam, the first inhabited Pacific island known to Europeans, ushered in the age of European exploration in the Pacific and led inexorably to foreign domination of every traditional island society throughout... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time 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 $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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An Appreciation of Difference: Weh Stanner and Aboriginal Australia by Melinda (edt) Hinkson Synopsis The work of renowned Australian anthropologist WEH Stanner is given historical and analytical context in this collection of contributions from some of Australia's leading academics in the field of Aboriginal studies. Educated by pioneers of anthropology,... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price: $37.95 New - Trade Paper
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Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age by Daniel T. Rodgers Publisher Comments The most belated of nations, Theodore Roosevelt called his country during the workmen's compensation fight in 1907. Earlier reformers, progressives of his day, and later New Dealers lamented the nation's resistance to models abroad for correctives to the... (read more) Your price: $37.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia Synopsis The author looks at the interactions of Australian indigenous people with Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Malays and Afghans. Based on over 100 interviews with members of families who still form extensive networks across the continent, this book is part... (read more) Your price: $49.50 New - Hardcover
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story by Christina Thompson Publisher Comments An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures. Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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First Australians: An Illustrated History by Rachel (edt) Perkins Publisher Comments The official companion book to a major nine-part television series broadcast on SBS TV, this account reveals the violent clash of culture, religion, and ideas at the heart of Australia's history. Beginning with Aboriginal travelers landing on Australian... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $58.50 New - Hardcover
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A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War Synopsis Sixty thousand Australians died during the First World War. This book is the first major study to examine the roles of war graves and cemeteries in private grief and mourning, through archival research of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the... (read more) Your price: $31.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia (Kolowalu Books) by P. F. Kluge Publisher Comments In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price: $22.25 New - Trade Paper
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Early Australian Voyages by John Pinkerton Publisher Comments On the 24th of the same month, being in the latitude of 42 degrees 25 minutes south, and in the longitude of 163 degrees 50 minutes, I discovered land, which lay east-south-east at the distance of ten miles, which I called Van Diemen's Land. The compass... (read more) Your price: $12.50 New - Trade Paper
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Trying To Get It Back; Indigenous Women, Education and Culture. by Gillian Weiss Book News Annotation Examines aspects of the lives of six women from three generations of two indigenous families of Australia and Canada. Their combined memories, experiences, and aspirations cover the entire 20th century. The women relate their experiences with formal... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $22.48 New - Hardcover
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Age of Enterprise: Discovering the New Zealand Entrepreneur 18801910 by Ian Hunter Publisher Comments This history illustrates how entrepreneurship and innovation transformed the New Zealand economy in the 19th century--an otherwise bleak period in international economics. Drawing on case studies and historical evidence, this analysis explores the... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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