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In a Sunburned Country (00 Edition) 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 $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Part adventure story, part philosophical essay, this extraordinary book takes Bruce Chatwin into the heart of Australia on a search for the source and meaning of man's restless nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 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 $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Salinity Crisis Landscapes Communities & by Quentin Beresford Book News Annotation Co-authored by specialists in public policy, environmental geography, Australian politics, and anthropology, the volume examines how Australia's salinity crisis developed through years of massive land- clearing programs and denial of the problem by... (read more) Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ill-Starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin by Anthony J Brown Publisher Comments Explores the rival voyages of naval captains Nicolas Baudin of France and Matthew Flinders of Britain, both of whom set out to map Australia and "advance the limits of science."... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Girl from Botany Bay by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments Acclaim for Carolly Erickson <P>" Carolly Erickson is one of the most accomplished and successful historical biographers writing in English." <BR> – The Times Literary Supplement <P>The First Elizabeth <P... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ned Kelly's Last Days: Setting the Record Straight on the Death of an Outlaw by Alex C Castles Publisher Comments Piecing together a vast jigsaw of obscure records and unpublished material, this expose follows the final months of one of Australian history's most infamous outlaws. Ned Kelly-- a beloved national icon-- was just a bushranger who was to be punished for... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture and Customs of Australia (Culture and Customs of the World) by Laurie Clancy Publisher Comments Americans' generally superficial familiarity with the Australian continent stems mostly from recent films. Particular images stand out: the Outback, sheep shearing, surfing, the Sydney Opera House, Aborigines, and the Walkabout. Yet Europeans arrived in... (read more) List Price $71.75 Your price: $25.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes Synopsis "The Fatal Shore" reveals the full extent of Australia's role as the concentration camp of Georgian England, and in doing so has set new standards in the writing of narrative history... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Australia: Land Beyond Time by Reg Morrison Publisher Comments A companion to the large-screen film of the same name, "Australia: Land Beyond Time" explores the continent's antiquity with more than 300 stunning color photos of its breathtaking land forms, plants, and animals. 20 maps.... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Micronesia Country Study Guide by Global Investment & Publisher Comments Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers.Updated... (read more) List Price $114.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Young People in Education and Employment: The Data Trail by Sally Knipe Synopsis This study focuses upon the education, training and employment of 15 to 24 year olds in Australia. Throughout the last three decades of the twentieth century the employment situation in Australia has altered significantly, compared with the labour force... (read more) List Price $111.75 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sydney: The City and Its People by Ian Grady Publisher Comments Provides a brief outline of Sydney, its geographical position and its history.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $31.25 Used - Hardcover
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New Zealand: A Visual Celebration by Gareth Eyres Synopsis From the capes and bays of the far north to the fjords in the south, the celebration in this volume is a visual one, a depiction in colour photographs, many of them double-page spreads, of the extraordinarily diverse and strikingly beautiful landscapes... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $29.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anglo Australian Attitudes by Michael Davie Publisher Comments One hundred years after the six Australian colonies voted to become a Federation, the country is struggling with the idea of a republic and a new Constitution and coming to terms with its tangled British legacy. Michael Davie examines this strange... (read more) Your price: $3.00 Used - Hardcover
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Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century by K R Howe Book News Annotation A critical analysis of the nature of the social, political, economic and cultural experiences of the Pacific Island peoples in colonial and contemporary times, divided into three parts: an examination of the islands under colonial rule until the... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Basic But Brilliant by Jane Clifton Publisher Comments A cookbook for the 30-something, who may not have good cooking skills but wants to aim high, and learn about the art of cooking. Take sauces as an example-the reader is first given an introduction to the world of creamy sauces, then a basic professional... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth, Sea, Sky: Images and Maori Proverbs from the Natural World of Aotearoa New Zealand by Patricia Grace Publisher Comments Patricia and Waiariki Graces lyrical translations and explanations of Maori poetry and traditional wisdom are presented alongside Craig Potton's evocative natural New Zealand photographs.... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature by Carl N Mcdaniel Publisher Comments This is the brief story of a remote South Pacific island that was once rich in resources and is now virtually a cinder in the sea. The conditions that caused this decline were human greed and ignorant practices. The story is a startling example of how... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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