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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
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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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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
by Doris Pilkington
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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)
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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)
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Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan
by Daniel Oakman
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In the early 1950s, Australia embarked on its most ambitious attempt to engage with Asia: The Colombo Plan. This book examines the public and private agendas behind Australia's foreign aid diplomacy and reveals the strategic, political and cultural aims... ( read more)
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Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand
by Elvin Hatch
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""Trees of the California Landscape" combines in a single volume just about everything landscape design professionals or home gardeners need to know about California trees. This excellent reference book/field guide will be particularly welcomed by... ( read more)
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The Girl from Botany Bay
by Carolly Erickson
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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
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Culture and Customs of Australia (Culture and Customs of the World)
by Laurie Clancy
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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)
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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)
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Micronesia Country Study Guide
by Global Investment &
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Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers.Updated... ( read more)
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True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway
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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)
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Australia: A Continent Revealed
by Thea Coetzee
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Coffee-table book that is divided into five chapters on the geographic regions of the country. There is a short introduction at the beginning of the book and at the start of each chapter. Many of the photographs are double page spreads and they are... ( read more)
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Anglo Australian Attitudes
by Michael Davie
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature
by Carl N Mcdaniel
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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)
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National Insecurity the Howard Governmen
by Linda Weiss
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Delving deep into Australia’s international relations, this book looks at the government of Prime Minister Howard, exposing his extreme attempt to court the United States as an ally and its dire effect on the nation's security, future... ( read more)
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
by Geraldine Brooks
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As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe,... ( read more)
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Australia Journey Through a Timeless Lan
by Roff Martin Smith
Synopsis
Illustrates the history, culture, landscapes, wildlife, and maritime of the continent of Australia.... ( read more)
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Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam
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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)
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