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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Bruce Chatwin—author of In Patagonia—ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aborginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In a Sunburned Country 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 $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cooper's Creek: Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback by Alan Moorehead Publisher Comments In 1860, an expedition set out from Melbourne, Australia, into the interior of the country, with the mission to find a route to the northern coast. Headed by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, the party of adventurers, scientists, and camels set... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand by Elvin Hatch Publisher Comments "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) List Price $38.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Social Change in Melanesia: Development and History by Paul Sillitoe Publisher Comments An account of social change in Melanesia covering the colonial period and the post-colonial era.... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Agenda Melbourne, Vic.) by Robert Manne Publisher Comments In December 2002, "The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Vol.1 by Keith Windschuttle was published. It argued that violence between whites and Aboriginals in colonial Tasmania had been vastly exaggerated and sought to rewrite the most contentious part of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 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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Australia's History: Themes and Debates by Martyn Lyons Synopsis This landmark volume will be created to coincide with the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences which the University of New South Wales in Sydney will be hosting in 2005. Sponsored by the Australian Historical Association, the book will... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $7.95 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: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia by Warwick Anderson Publisher Comments In nineteenth-century Australia, the main commentators on race and biological differences were doctors. But the medical profession entertained serious anxieties about the possibility of "racial denigration" of the white population in the new land, and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Australia Flying High (Flying High) by Klaus D. Francke Publisher Comments Australia is the world's smallest continent but the world's largest island, unsurpassed in its diversity of cultures and natural wonders. Aerial photographer Klaus D. Francke invites readers to explore this vast and beautiful land through this superb... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Walkabout Year: Twelve Months in Australia by Samuel F. Pickering Publisher Comments "Reading Pickering," said Smithsonian, "is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." In Walkabout Year, Samuel Pickering, the professor who inspired the movie Dead Poets Society, provides an intimate, engaging chronicle... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments New edition published as part of the Vintage Classics series.... (read more) Your price: $7.95 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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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) Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J Swiss Publisher Comments The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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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) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Road From Coorain by Jill Conway Synopsis Jill Ker Conway grew up in New South Wales in the 1940s and '50s. This is her account of an Australian childhood in the outback, and subsequently in Sydney, encompassing family tragedy, a devastating struggle with the desert environment, and an evocation... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Foreign correspondence by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments In the tradition of Jill Ker Conway's bestselling autobiography, The Road from Coorain, Geraldine Brooks's Foreign Correspondence is a memoir of an idyllic girlhood in the middle-class western suburbs of Sydney, Australia in the 1960s and 70s. The... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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