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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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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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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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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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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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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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New Zealand Croatian Immigrant Press 1899-1916 by Damir Trupini Publisher Comments The focus of the present work is on role and functions that Croatian immigrant press played in interaction with their readership and the host society. The work combines the methods of quantitative and qualitative content analysis. It establishes a... (read more) List Price $81.50 Your price: $60.00 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: $4.00 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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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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