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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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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: $5.50 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 $15.95 Your price: $8.95 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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing With Strangers the True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet & the Aboriginal Australians 1788 by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British... (read more) Your price: $8.95 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: $7.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ends and Means of Welfare: Coping with Economic and Social Change in Australia by Peter Saunders Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index.... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Australia (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Stuart Macintyre Publisher Comments Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $11.95 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 $34.95 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 $52.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Freeing Ali: The Human Face of the Pacific Solution by Michael Gordon Synopsis In April this year, Michael Gordon was the first journalist to gain unrestricted access to the refugee detention center on Nauru. There he interviewed more than half of the 54 asylum seekers then on the island. His articles, based on these interviews... (read more) List Price $19.25 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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Orwell's Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars by Dennis Glover Publisher Comments A discussion of George Orwell's relevance to contemporary Australian life and political debate is introduced in this text on modern-day Australian politics. Arguing that in an era of global war and national insecurity the Australian center-left must once... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $9.95 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: $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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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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My Place by Sally Morgan Publisher Comments Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture. Sally Morgan traveled to her grandmothers birthplace, starting... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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