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Fodor's Exploring Australia •  Michael Ivory
GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER • 288 PAGES
This excellent, up-to-date guide will take you Down Under with ease -- and style. With maps, illustrations and unusually solid information on features of cultural, historical and natural interest. (AUS29, $22.00)

Eyewitness Guide New Zealand •   Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK • 2006 • PAPER • 400 PAGES
This superb illustrated guide to New Zealand from the Eyewitness series features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (NZL45, $25.00)

A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands •  John Chambers
HISTORY • 2007 • PAPER • 400 PAGES
A concise, generous overview of the region, organized chronologically, and including line drawings and maps. While a great deal of the book focuses on New Zealand, there is also ample coverage of the South Pacific. (NZL60, $14.95)

In a Sunburned Country •  Bill Bryson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2001 • PAPER • 307 PAGES • FAVORITE
Nothing seems to deter the intrepid, ever-resourceful Bill Bryson -- and all the better for his many readers. Here he revels in Australia's eccentric characters, dangerous flora and fauna, and other oddities. As has become his custom, he also effortlessly imparts much history in this wildly funny book. Included at the end is a short bibliography. (AUS83, $14.95)

Australia Map •   HEMA Maps
2007 • MAP
A large folded map of Australia, at an scale of 1:4,500,000. National parks, reserves and roads are all clearly marked. The reverse side features insets of major city centers and regions, including Sydney, Perth, Darwin and Hobart. Two Sides. 34x40 inches. (AUS23, $10.95)

New Zealand Map •   Borch Maps
2006 • MAP
This full color laminated map shows North Island and South Island at a scale of 1:1,300,000. With index, time zones, maps of Aukland, Wellington, Rotorua, Christchurch, Nelson, Queenstown and Dunedin. Two Sides. 39x20 inches. (NZL09, $10.95)

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Christchurch Map •   HEMA Maps • Including a regional map on the reverse at a scale of 1:350,000. (NZL84, $10.95)

Australia, An Ecotraveler's Guide •  Hannah Robinson • GUIDEBOOK • A handbook and guide to wildlife, habitats and travel in Australia with 400 color photographs and excellent descriptive information on birds, mammals and other creatures. (AUS128, $23.95)

Fodor's Sydney's 25 Best •   Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket guide and map. (AUS166, $11.95)

A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Improbable Birth of Australia •  Thomas Keneally • HISTORY • Keneally illuminates the birth of New South Wales with drama and flair, richly evoking the social conditions in London, long sea voyage and the conditions in Australia. (AUS177, $15.95)

Australia, A New History of the Great Southern Land •  Frank Welsh • HISTORY • In this authoritative, balanced history Frank Welsh focuses on the political development of Australia from the European discovery of the continent through the period of colonization. (AUS165, $37.50)

Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand & the South Pacific •  Richard Nile •  Christian Clerk • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • This handsome volume weaves together history, geography, archaeology, and the arts, covering the Australasian region from prehistory up to the founding of the modern nations. Featuring hundreds of illustrations. (AUS09, $50.00)

The Fatal Shore •  Robert Hughes • HISTORY • FAVORITE • In this celebrated social history, both scholarly and entertaining, Hughes traces the fate of those who were transported to the penal colonies of Australia between 1787 and 1868. It's an engaging popular account, drawn from the experiences of the colonists themselves. (AUS04, $19.95)

The Songlines •  Bruce Chatwin • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE • Chatwin transforms a journey through the Outback into an exhilarating, semi-fictional meditation on our place in the world. (AUS01, $16.00)

Maori Tattooing •  H.G. Robley • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A new unabridged edition of the classic, illustrated sourcebook on Maori tattooing (moko), first published in 1896. The author pays scrupulous attention to the intricate patterns, design and cultural meaning of traditional Maori tattoos. (NZL67, $12.95)

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, A New Zealand Story •  Christina Thompson • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW • In this endearing, offbeat memoir, Thompson effortlessly moves between tales of mostly disastrous early encounters with the Maori (she's an anthropologist) and the story of the love of her life, Seven, the Maori she married. (NZL96, $15.00)

My Place •  Sally Morgan • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A deeply moving autobiography of three generations in Australia, which artfully evokes aboriginal culture. Morgan, who spent her childhood in Perth, didn't discover her Aboriginal background until she was in her teens. (AUS19, $19.95)

The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paddling the Pacific •  Paul Theroux • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE • Here's Theroux at his wickedly funny and open-minded best. The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas. (PAC03, $15.95)

Australia, A Traveler's Literary Companion •  Robert Ross • ANTHOLOGY • Learn about the people, culture and traditions of Australia as seen through the eyes of its contemporary writers. Or-ganized thematically, this wonderful anthology includes articles and excerpts on the Great Barrier Reef, the out-back, the Nullarbor Plateau and Bondi Beach. Great reading. (AUS38, $13.95)

Dirt Music, A Novel •  Tim Winton • LITERATURE • An alcoholic mother and a down-on-his luck poacher anchor this haunting novel, set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia (AUS151, $16.00)

Once Were Warriors •  Alan Duff • LITERATURE • This controversial best-selling novel follows the fate of a Maori woman in what appears to be modern-day Auckland, an insightful look at social problems of the Maori in contemporary New Zealand. (NZL19, $14.00)

The Bone is Pointed •  Arthur Upfield • MYSTERY • This Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery finds the half-Aborigine detective in the place he knows best, the Australian outback, where he is investigating the disappearance of a local scoundrel. (AUS171, $20.95)

The Bone People •  Keri Hulme • LITERATURE • Set in modern day South Island, this Booker Prize-winning novel brings together three troubled individuals who represent New Zealand's Maori and European traditions. (NZL02, $15.00)

The Secret River •  Kate Grenville • LITERATURE • Inspired by the history of her own family, Kate Grenville evokes all the bravado, trickery and conflict over the settlement of New South Wales in her tale of a Thames boatsman banished to the new colony in 1806 (AUS179, $14.00)

The Turning, New Stories •  Tim Winton • LITERATURE • These 17 overlapping stories, steeped in everyday life on western Australia, follow the fates of a handful of characters in a small coastal town outside Perth. Winton, short-listed twice so far for the Booker Prize, has published a string of memorable novels, children's books and stories, all richly set in the working class milieu of the sparsely populated coastal desert. (AUS169, $15.00)

True History of the Kelly Gang •  Peter Carey • LITERATURE • A powerful, daring novel, steeped in the colonial history of late 19th-century Australia. Outlaw, folk hero, thief and patriot, the Irish immigrant Ned Kelly and his clan figure large in the Australian mindset. (AUS119, $14.95)

Australia, Land Beyond Time •   IMAX • NATURAL HISTORY • A dazzling overview of Australia, its geology, evolution, culture and wildlife on DVD, originally presented in IMAX theatres. (AUS168, $14.99)

Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature •  Tim Flannery • NATURAL HISTORY • Flannery weaves his own coming-of-age as a scientist with tales of the strange marsupial, past and present, in this ode to the Kangaroo. (AUS186, $14.00)

New Zealand, A Natural History •  Tui De Roy •  Mark Jones • NATURAL HISTORY • Having relocated many years ago to the beaches of Golden Bay on the North Island, Tui and Mark present the wildlife, habitats and splendor of their homeland in this photographic celebration. (NZL76, $35.00)

The Great Barrier Reef •  George Casey • NATURAL HISTORY • A dazzling overview of the reef, its ecology and inhabitants, originally presented in IMAX theatres. (AUS191, $19.99)

The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean •  Paddy Ryan •  Peter Atkinson • NATURAL HISTORY • The best-selling, take-along guide to coral reefs, coral reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific. With 200 color photographs. (DIV18, $21.99)

Wild Fiordland •  Neville Peat • NATURAL HISTORY • This comprehensive overview of the natural history of New Zealand's Fiordland features maps, lively essays and 200 color photographs. (NZL06, $39.95)

Australia: The East, Travellers' Wildlife Guides •  Les Beletsky • FIELD GUIDE • Featuring 650 full-color illustrations of common fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds of Australia and an overview of parks and preserves including the Great Barrier Reef. (AUS167, $29.95)

Field Guide to the Birds of Australia •  Ken Simpson •  Nicholas Day • FIELD GUIDE • A handbook and field guide to Australia's birds with 2,000 vivid color illustrations, each accompanied by a brief description and revised range map. (AUS06, $44.00)

Fishwatcher's Field Guide, Great Barrier Reef •  Idaz Greenberg • FIELD GUIDE • A double-sided, laminated card. (DIV41, $7.50)

New Zealand Wildlife •  Julian Fitter • FIELD GUIDE • Julian Fitter's splendid introduction to the nature and wildlife of New Zealand features succinct chapters on geography and geology, history, habitats and wildlife, along with hundreds of color photographs. Fitter (Wildlife of the Galapagos) and Tui de Roy, who contributed many of the photographs, also collaborated on Albatross, Their World, Their Ways. (NZL97, $25.99)

The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand •  Barrie Heather • FIELD GUIDE • The revised compact edition of the classic field guide, featuring 74 color plates by Derek Onley. (NZL05, $70.00)

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	Fodor's Exploring Australia • Michael Ivory GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER • 288 PAGES This excellent, up-to-date guide will take you Down Under with ease -- and style. With maps, illustrations and unusually solid information on features of cultural, historical and natural interest. (AUS29, $22.00)
	Eyewitness Guide New Zealand • Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2006 • PAPER • 400 PAGES This superb illustrated guide to New Zealand from the Eyewitness series features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (NZL45, $25.00)
	A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands • John Chambers HISTORY • 2007 • PAPER • 400 PAGES A concise, generous overview of the region, organized chronologically, and including line drawings and maps. While a great deal of the book focuses on New Zealand, there is also ample coverage of the South Pacific. (NZL60, $14.95)
	In a Sunburned Country • Bill Bryson TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2001 • PAPER • 307 PAGES • FAVORITE Nothing seems to deter the intrepid, ever-resourceful Bill Bryson -- and all the better for his many readers. Here he revels in Australia's eccentric characters, dangerous flora and fauna, and other oddities. As has become his custom, he also effortlessly imparts much history in this wildly funny book. Included at the end is a short bibliography. (AUS83, $14.95)
	Australia Map • HEMA Maps 2007 • MAP A large folded map of Australia, at an scale of 1:4,500,000. National parks, reserves and roads are all clearly marked. The reverse side features insets of major city centers and regions, including Sydney, Perth, Darwin and Hobart. Two Sides. 34x40 inches. (AUS23, $10.95)
	New Zealand Map • Borch Maps 2006 • MAP This full color laminated map shows North Island and South Island at a scale of 1:1,300,000. With index, time zones, maps of Aukland, Wellington, Rotorua, Christchurch, Nelson, Queenstown and Dunedin. Two Sides. 39x20 inches. (NZL09, $10.95)

	Christchurch Map • HEMA Maps • Including a regional map on the reverse at a scale of 1:350,000. (NZL84, $10.95)
	Australia, An Ecotraveler's Guide • Hannah Robinson • GUIDEBOOK • A handbook and guide to wildlife, habitats and travel in Australia with 400 color photographs and excellent descriptive information on birds, mammals and other creatures. (AUS128, $23.95)
	Fodor's Sydney's 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket guide and map. (AUS166, $11.95)
	A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Improbable Birth of Australia • Thomas Keneally • HISTORY • Keneally illuminates the birth of New South Wales with drama and flair, richly evoking the social conditions in London, long sea voyage and the conditions in Australia. (AUS177, $15.95)
	Australia, A New History of the Great Southern Land • Frank Welsh • HISTORY • In this authoritative, balanced history Frank Welsh focuses on the political development of Australia from the European discovery of the continent through the period of colonization. (AUS165, $37.50)
	Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand & the South Pacific • Richard Nile • Christian Clerk • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • This handsome volume weaves together history, geography, archaeology, and the arts, covering the Australasian region from prehistory up to the founding of the modern nations. Featuring hundreds of illustrations. (AUS09, $50.00)
	The Fatal Shore • Robert Hughes • HISTORY • FAVORITE • In this celebrated social history, both scholarly and entertaining, Hughes traces the fate of those who were transported to the penal colonies of Australia between 1787 and 1868. It's an engaging popular account, drawn from the experiences of the colonists themselves. (AUS04, $19.95)
	The Songlines • Bruce Chatwin • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE • Chatwin transforms a journey through the Outback into an exhilarating, semi-fictional meditation on our place in the world. (AUS01, $16.00)
	Maori Tattooing • H.G. Robley • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A new unabridged edition of the classic, illustrated sourcebook on Maori tattooing (moko), first published in 1896. The author pays scrupulous attention to the intricate patterns, design and cultural meaning of traditional Maori tattoos. (NZL67, $12.95)
	Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, A New Zealand Story • Christina Thompson • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW • In this endearing, offbeat memoir, Thompson effortlessly moves between tales of mostly disastrous early encounters with the Maori (she's an anthropologist) and the story of the love of her life, Seven, the Maori she married. (NZL96, $15.00)
	My Place • Sally Morgan • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A deeply moving autobiography of three generations in Australia, which artfully evokes aboriginal culture. Morgan, who spent her childhood in Perth, didn't discover her Aboriginal background until she was in her teens. (AUS19, $19.95)
	The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paddling the Pacific • Paul Theroux • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE • Here's Theroux at his wickedly funny and open-minded best. The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas. (PAC03, $15.95)
	Australia, A Traveler's Literary Companion • Robert Ross • ANTHOLOGY • Learn about the people, culture and traditions of Australia as seen through the eyes of its contemporary writers. Or-ganized thematically, this wonderful anthology includes articles and excerpts on the Great Barrier Reef, the out-back, the Nullarbor Plateau and Bondi Beach. Great reading. (AUS38, $13.95)
	Dirt Music, A Novel • Tim Winton • LITERATURE • An alcoholic mother and a down-on-his luck poacher anchor this haunting novel, set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia (AUS151, $16.00)
	Once Were Warriors • Alan Duff • LITERATURE • This controversial best-selling novel follows the fate of a Maori woman in what appears to be modern-day Auckland, an insightful look at social problems of the Maori in contemporary New Zealand. (NZL19, $14.00)
	The Bone is Pointed • Arthur Upfield • MYSTERY • This Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery finds the half-Aborigine detective in the place he knows best, the Australian outback, where he is investigating the disappearance of a local scoundrel. (AUS171, $20.95)
	The Bone People • Keri Hulme • LITERATURE • Set in modern day South Island, this Booker Prize-winning novel brings together three troubled individuals who represent New Zealand's Maori and European traditions. (NZL02, $15.00)
	The Secret River • Kate Grenville • LITERATURE • Inspired by the history of her own family, Kate Grenville evokes all the bravado, trickery and conflict over the settlement of New South Wales in her tale of a Thames boatsman banished to the new colony in 1806 (AUS179, $14.00)
	The Turning, New Stories • Tim Winton • LITERATURE • These 17 overlapping stories, steeped in everyday life on western Australia, follow the fates of a handful of characters in a small coastal town outside Perth. Winton, short-listed twice so far for the Booker Prize, has published a string of memorable novels, children's books and stories, all richly set in the working class milieu of the sparsely populated coastal desert. (AUS169, $15.00)
	True History of the Kelly Gang • Peter Carey • LITERATURE • A powerful, daring novel, steeped in the colonial history of late 19th-century Australia. Outlaw, folk hero, thief and patriot, the Irish immigrant Ned Kelly and his clan figure large in the Australian mindset. (AUS119, $14.95)
	Australia, Land Beyond Time • IMAX • NATURAL HISTORY • A dazzling overview of Australia, its geology, evolution, culture and wildlife on DVD, originally presented in IMAX theatres. (AUS168, $14.99)
	Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature • Tim Flannery • NATURAL HISTORY • Flannery weaves his own coming-of-age as a scientist with tales of the strange marsupial, past and present, in this ode to the Kangaroo. (AUS186, $14.00)
	New Zealand, A Natural History • Tui De Roy • Mark Jones • NATURAL HISTORY • Having relocated many years ago to the beaches of Golden Bay on the North Island, Tui and Mark present the wildlife, habitats and splendor of their homeland in this photographic celebration. (NZL76, $35.00)
	The Great Barrier Reef • George Casey • NATURAL HISTORY • A dazzling overview of the reef, its ecology and inhabitants, originally presented in IMAX theatres. (AUS191, $19.99)
	The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean • Paddy Ryan • Peter Atkinson • NATURAL HISTORY • The best-selling, take-along guide to coral reefs, coral reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific. With 200 color photographs. (DIV18, $21.99)
	Wild Fiordland • Neville Peat • NATURAL HISTORY • This comprehensive overview of the natural history of New Zealand's Fiordland features maps, lively essays and 200 color photographs. (NZL06, $39.95)
	Australia: The East, Travellers' Wildlife Guides • Les Beletsky • FIELD GUIDE • Featuring 650 full-color illustrations of common fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds of Australia and an overview of parks and preserves including the Great Barrier Reef. (AUS167, $29.95)
	Field Guide to the Birds of Australia • Ken Simpson • Nicholas Day • FIELD GUIDE • A handbook and field guide to Australia's birds with 2,000 vivid color illustrations, each accompanied by a brief description and revised range map. (AUS06, $44.00)
	Fishwatcher's Field Guide, Great Barrier Reef • Idaz Greenberg • FIELD GUIDE • A double-sided, laminated card. (DIV41, $7.50)
	New Zealand Wildlife • Julian Fitter • FIELD GUIDE • Julian Fitter's splendid introduction to the nature and wildlife of New Zealand features succinct chapters on geography and geology, history, habitats and wildlife, along with hundreds of color photographs. Fitter (Wildlife of the Galapagos) and Tui de Roy, who contributed many of the photographs, also collaborated on Albatross, Their World, Their Ways. (NZL97, $25.99)
	The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand • Barrie Heather • FIELD GUIDE • The revised compact edition of the classic field guide, featuring 74 color plates by Derek Onley. (NZL05, $70.00)