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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 $14.95 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands by Douglas L Oliver Publisher Comments This abridgment of Oliver's Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands is intended for college-level courses on precontact anthropology, history, economy, and politics of the Pacific, excluding Australia.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $6.50 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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The Birth of Sydney by Tim 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand (Oxford Illustrated Histories) by Keith Sinclair Publisher Comments Bringing one thousand years to life, this is an illustrated history of New Zealand from the settlement by Polynesians to the present day. The book covers the period of colonization after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the wars between the Maori... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $24.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments Story of the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there.... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $9.95 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: $4.00 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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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Publisher Comments Carey's outstanding fictional account of the life of Australian bush ranger, Ned Kelly, which won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and which was shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize. A number one bestseller in hardback, it will be backed with a... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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