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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs (Reshaping Australian Institutions) Publisher Comments Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Australian Colors: Images of the Outback by Bill Bachman Publisher Comments For more than two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman explored the unique beauty of this mystical terrain, returning with the more than 300 dazzling, and sometimes perplexing, photographs featured in Australian Colors. The entertaining text he weaves... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific by Richard Nile and Christian Clerk Synopsis This guide for both intrepid and armchair travelers covers this diverse region of the Pacific and all its peoples and rich traditions.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand by Elvin Hatch Publisher Comments Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Recovery from the Depression by Rg Gregory Publisher Comments In Australian economic history, as in the nation's politics and culture, the Great Depression is a dominant theme. In this volume, an international group of economists and economic historians has collaborated to examine the ways in which Australia... (read more) List Price $186.50 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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Birth of Sydney (99 Edition) by Tim (ed.) Flannery Publisher Comments The story of the founding and rise to prominence of one of the world's greatest cities -- Sydney, Australia, site of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Blending together the writings of early Australian settlers, leaders, journalists, and explorers, in The... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Presenting New Zealand: An Illustrated History by Philip Temple Synopsis Lavishly illustrated with over 150 full color and black and white historical and contemporary photographs, artworks, and regional maps, Presenting New Zealand is a quintessential visual and informative account of how the country has developed in relative... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $22.00 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 $52.50 Your price: $10.50 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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Explorers (98 Edition) by Tim (ed.) Flannery Publisher Comments In this lively collection of stories of adventure and discovery, "The Explorers" tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Flannery presents 67 accounts that convey the sense of wonder along with the dimensions of struggle.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 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: $5.95 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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Mutiny, Terrorism, Riots and Murder: A History of Sedition in Australia and New Zealand by Kevin Baker Book News Annotation Baker (management, U. of Applied Science, Bonn, Germany, and U. of Sichuan, China) examines civil and military unrest in Australia and New Zealand from European colonization to 2005. He describes rioting during the nineteenth century, including the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Australian Cultural History by Francis Barrymore Smith Publisher Comments Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history. The diverse and distinguished authors range across religion, literature, history, popular ideas, painting, ballet, patronage and... (read more) List Price $44.75 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Singing Line: Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Victorian Ancestors by Alice Thomson Publisher Comments A charming true-life romantic adventure about a pair of young British couples--one hundred fifty years apart--braving the exotic rigors of the Australian Outback The Singing Line is a wondrous narrative that combines the historical adventure of Longitude... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 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: $30.00 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: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Terra Nullius (07 Edition) by Lindqvist Publisher Comments "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races."—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man "Terra nullius"—no man's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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