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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Australia Map
ITMB
2007
MAP
A large, double-sided map of Australia, at an excellent scale of 1:3,600,000. National parks, reserves and roads are all clearly marked. With some topographic relief and city plans of major urban centers.
(AUS23, $11.95) |
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New Zealand Map
World Mapping Project
2006
MAP
A map of New Zealand, at a scale of 1:1,000,000, featuring topographical detail.
(NZL09, $9.99) |
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A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary
Louis Leland
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
Take this book with you on your trip to help you untangle the sometimes perplexing and colorful local idioms.
(NZL13, $7.95) |
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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) |
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Fodor's Sydney's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
A shirt-pocket guide and map.
(AUS166, $11.95) |
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Lonely Planet Melbourne
Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK
A travel guide to Melbourne and surroundings with excellent maps and plenty of practical information.
(AUS73, $19.99) |
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A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands
John Chambers
HISTORY
A brisk portrait of New Zealand, its culture, economy and society, this concise history also covers the settlement of the Pacific islands.
(NZL60, $14.95) |
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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. Features hundreds of illustrations.
(AUS09, $50.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Aboriginal Art
Wally Caruana
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This well illustrated survey focuses on the spiritual and geographic sources of art and ritual traditions in Australia. With 187 well produced black-and-white and color illustrations.
(AUS14, $14.95) |
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Kiwi Tracks, A New Zealand Journey
Andrew Stevenson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Stevenson begins amidst the snow and cold on the mountains of New Zealand's South Island and slowly ventures northward to the tropics.
(NZL30, $12.95) |
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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) |
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The Road from Coorain
Jill Ker Conway
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An absorbing account of a young rural girl's coming of age in post-war Sydney. Conway paints a vivid picture of isolation and beauty -- and of the challenges of a bright, ambitious woman growing up Australian.
(AUS03, $12.95) |
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Stories
Katherine Mansfield
LITERATURE
The three marvelous, long stories in this collection constitute the beginnings of a novel based on Mansfield's childhood in Wellington.
(NZL55, $14.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Nutmeg of Consolation
Patrick O'Brian
LITERATURE
This 14th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin Series finds Captain Aubrey and his crew shipwrecked and finding their way to the penal colony at Botany Bay, the notorious first European settlement in Australia.
(AUS17, $13.95) |
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Travelers' Tales Australia, True Stories of Life Down Under
Larry Habegger
Amy G. Carlson
LITERATURE
An excellent introduction to the people, culture and traditions of Australia as seen through the eyes of mostly contemporary writers. Organized thematically, it includes articles and excerpts on the Great Barrier Reef, the outback, the Nullarbor Plateau and Bondi Beach.
(AUS86, $18.95) |
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Australia, Land Beyond Time
Rex Morrison
NATURAL HISTORY
An illustrated overview of Australia, its geology, evolution, culture and wildlife. With an informative text, timeline, maps and 300 color photographs by author and Sydney-resident Rex Morrison. A companion book to the IMAX film of the same name.
(AUS163, $39.95) |
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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) |
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Australian Birds
Pocket Naturalist
FIELD GUIDE
A laminated card featuring commonly encountered Australian birds.
(AUS99, $5.95) |
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Australian Wildlife
Raymond Leung
James Kavanaugh
FIELD GUIDE
This illustrated fold-out guide features almost 150 species of Australian animals. Laminated and pocket-sized.
(AUS111, $5.95) |
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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, $59.95) |
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