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These 6 items are available for $92, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPAC82)

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  •  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)
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)

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)
Eyewitness Guide Sydney  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide to Sydney features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. (AUS25, $23.00)
Fodor's Sydney's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket guide includes a map. (AUS166, $11.95)
A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Improbable Birth of Australia  •  Thomas Keneally   • HISTORY • NEW  •  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. Features 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, $18.95)
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, $15.00)
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)
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  •  An excellent overview of the cultures, geography and mindset of Australia as seen through stories by Patrick White, Peter Carey and other luminaries. (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, $15.00)
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, $12.95)
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, $14.95)
The Bone People  •  Keri Hulme   • LITERATURE  •  Set in modern day South Island, this lyrical novel brings together three troubled individuals who represent New Zealand's varied Maori and European traditions. Winner of the Booker Prize. (NZL02, $15.00)
The Secret River  •  Kate Grenville   • LITERATURE • NEW  •  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)
Whale Rider  •  Witi Ihimaera   • LITERATURE  •  A magical, mythical novella about a young Maori girl and her attempts to honor the traditions of her ancestors. Based loosely on Ihimaera's youth in a Maori village. (NZL64, $8.00)
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  •  A memoir and ode to the kangaroo in all its splendid diversity. Flannery weaves his own coming-of-age as a scientist with tales of the strange marsupial, past and present. (AUS186, $14.00)
New Zealand, A Natural History  •  Tui De Roy  •  Mark Jones   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The naturalist and photographer duo present the wildlife, habitats and splendor of their adopted homeland in this pictorial celebration. (NZL76, $35.00)
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, $19.95)
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, $39.50)
Fishwatcher's Field Guide, Great Barrier Reef  •  Idaz Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A double-sided, laminated card covering the reef fish of Australia, Papua New Guinea and the tropical Pacific. (DIV41, $7.50)
The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand  •  Derek Onley  •  Barrie Heather  •  Hugh Robertson   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A field guide featuring 74 color plates. Brief descriptions, range maps and illustrations are integrated on facing pages for easy reference. (NZL05, $59.95)