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Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island (Lisa Drew Books)
by Jo Anne Van Tilburg  Publisher Comments The result is an exciting personal story, set against the drama of Katherine's remarkable exploration of one of the most intriguing archaeological sites in the world....
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Billy Connolly's Australia
by Billy Connolly Synopsis Billy Connolly, one of Britain's best-loved comedians, now triumphs Down Under with a witty and perceptive view of Australia. Billy is a veteran of many visits to Oz. He loves Australia and Australlians and the feeling is reciprocated... his concert...
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With the Kama Sutra Under My Arm: My Madcap Misadventures Across India
by Trisha Bernard Publisher Comments What do you do when your boyfriend dumps you and you’re nursing a broken heart? For Trisha Bernard, the answer’s clear: escape to India, armed with a copy of the Kama Sutra. That way you’ll be ready should love (or lust) strike. But, as...
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among Aborigines
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...
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Lonely Planet Kiwi Tracks: A New Zealand Journey (Lonely Planet Journeys)
by Lonely Planet Synopsis The world of low-budget travel can be summed up with one image: the backpacker. This is the tale of Andrew Stevenson's hitchhike around New Zealand. It captures the life of the backpacker, from spending time in a Maori settlement to being caught in a...
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Slipping Into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Under the Tuscan Sun and "A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's ode to his personal paradise-his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle- out of all the places on earth-in such a...
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Tracks (Vintage Departures)
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...
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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...
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Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
by Tim Flannery
Publisher Comments Tim Flannery is a scientist of international standing, a world expert on the fauna of New Guinea with twenty new species and seven books to his credit. In Throwim Way Leg, he takes us into the field and on an unforgettable journey into the heart of this...
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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...
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Hawaiian Archipelago
by Isabella Bird Publisher Comments Isabella Bird visited the Sandwich Islands in 1871, when she was 40. Her letters to her sister have a remarkable freshness and spontaneity and reveal the transformation of a Victorian invalid into a fearless horsewoman and enthusiastic mountain-climber...
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Slipping Into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Publisher Comments In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s ode to his personal paradise–his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle– out of all the places on...
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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments The author of Riding the Iron Rooster recounts in vivid, exhilarating detail his journey--by kayak--through the diverse landscapes and wonders of New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Easter Island, and other islands of the Pacific. Reprint....
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Greater Nowheres: Wanderings Across the Outback
by Dave Finkelstein Publisher Comments A wildly funny journey through the outback-a forbidding adventure for even the most daring Aussie...
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Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by Larry Habegger Publisher Comments Platypuses, billabongs, ancient song lines, deserted islands, camel treks, surfing, scuba diving, rock climbing — all come to life when readers travel from outback to rainforest, from the red center to the great barrier reef, as they learn about...
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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
Powells.com Staff Pick "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...
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Paradise
by Larry Mcmurtry Publisher Comments At once an inviting travel book and an insightful reflection on his parents' marriage, Paradise is Larry McMurtry's most original and personal work to date. In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America,...
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Java :a traveller's anthology
by James R Rush Publisher Comments Capturing the many diverse images and perceptions of Java recorded over the last 600 years, this entertaining volume brings together accounts of this enchanting tropical island by thirty-five Western travellers, most of them English or American. Their...
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Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific
by Will Randall Publisher Comments Who hasn't fantasized about dismantling his or her hassled, wired-up life for a simpler existence? Yet who among us has the will and opportunity to do it? The answer, of course, is very few. Will Randall, a young English schoolmaster, had such a chance -...
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Faces of the Islands: When Pacific Islander and American Ways Meet
by Willard C Muller Publisher Comments This book is about the people of some remote, incredibly beautiful Pacific islands near the equator, and the small band of mostly young and middle-aged Americans sent out to help prepare them for a better life, including independence. The author, former...
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