AUSTRALIA More Books 30 Days in Sydney, A Wildly Distorted Account  •  Peter Carey TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES An impressionistic account of Carey's native city, the result of his return visit (with a tape recorder) after an absence of 17 years. (AUS123, $13.00)   Australia By Rail  •  Colin Taylor GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES A comprehensive, practical guide in the British series. This fifth revised edition features an expanded section of maps and city guides (AUS146, $21.95)   Australia Revealed  •  Discovery Channel CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2007 •  DVD Head Down Under and explore the wonders of Australia in this Discovery Atlas presentation. Featuring a performance by Chris Thorburn. (AUS231, $14.98)   Australia Wall Map  •  2001 •  MAP A laminated political wall map (23 x 30) of Australia at a scale of 1:6,400,000, published by National Geographic. Our price includes separate shipping by U.S. mail in a sturdy tube. One Side. 23x30 inches. (AUS131, $19.99)   Australia, A New History of the Great Southern Land  •  Frank Welsh HISTORY •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 758 PAGES In this authoritative, balanced history Frank Welsh focuses on the political development of Australia from the European discovery of the continent through colonization, its impact on Aborigines and modern challenges. Welsh, as he makes clear in the introduction, is an English (not Australian) historian and writer. With black-and-white photos and maps. (AUS165, $37.50)   Australia, An Ecotraveler's Guide  •  Hannah Robinson GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 290 PAGES 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. Organized geographically, each section includes suggested places to visit, national parks and reserves, maps and sidebars on habitats, flora and fauna. (AUS128, $23.95)   Australia: The East, Travellers' Wildlife Guides  •  Les Beletsky FIELD GUIDE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 544 PAGES A wonderfully comprehensive guide to the plant and animal life of eastern Australia. The colorful book features illustrations of 650 commonly encountered fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds and special sections on the Great Barrier Reef and eastern Australian and Tasmanian wildlife parks and reserves. (AUS167, $29.95)   Australians, Origins to Eureka  •  Thomas Keneally HISTORY •  2010 •  HARD COVER  • 628 PAGES Volume One of Keneally's ambitious cultural history, covering the period from settlement to 1860, focuses on the people who built Australia, not just the politicians and heroes but also the convicts, Aborigines, Chinese gold diggers and other workers. (AUS252, $39.95)   Back Roads Australia  •  Inc. Dorling Kindersley GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 264 PAGES A practical guide with 25 scenic drives lasting one to seven days each, packed with color photographs, maps, hotels, detours, restaurants and activities. Ideal for anyone planning a road trip through Australia. (AUS253, $25.00)   Batavia's Graveyard, The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny  •  Mike Dash HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER A fascinating yet chilling account of a 17th-century shipwreck not for the squeamish. A mutinous heretic and his followers systematically murder over 100 passengers of a Dutch East India Company merchant vessel after it is marooned off the coast of Australia. Besides telling the tale in in gruesome detail, historian Mike Dash treats questions of navigation, religion, medicine, psychology and sociology in their historical context. (PAC132, $17.00)   The Birth of Sydney  •  Tim F. Flannery HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES Flannery's engaging portrait of Sydney from its initial settlement to the present day, incorporating observations by early visitors including Mark Twain, Charles Darwin and Captain Cook. (AUS100, $14.00)   Breath  •  Tim Winton LITERATURE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES Winton evokes the sea and the thrill of surfing in this tale of coming-of-age -- and of testing limits -- in small town westrern Australia in the 1970s. (AUS218, $14.00)   Carnivorous Nights, On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger  •  Margaret Mittelbach  •  Michael Crewdson  •  Alexis Rockman TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES In this comic adventure, two Brooklyn naturalists and an artist friend head to Tasmania in search of the probably long-extinct Tasmanian Tiger. It's an entertaining travelogue, interweaving Tasmania's history, landscapes, fauna and people. Mittelbach and Crewdson also wrote Wild New York, about the city's natural features. With illustrations by Alexis Rockman, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker. (AUS164, $14.95)   The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith  •  Thomas Keneally LITERATURE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 184 PAGES A classic story set in the Australian outback of one man against an unjust, racist society. (AUS30, $13.95)   The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia  •  Michael F. Braby FIELD GUIDE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES A comprehensive photographic guide to the 416 species found in Australia. With range maps. (AUS215, $49.95)   The Complete Stories  •  David Malouf LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 528 PAGES The varied landscapes of Malouf's native Australia form the backround for this collection of his short fiction, including previously unpublished work. His characters are memorable and his writing superb. (AUS205, $16.95)   Continent of Hunter-Gatherers, New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory  •  Harry Lourandos CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  PAPER  • 412 PAGES A well considered, scholarly survey of the archaeology of Aboriginal Australia with chapters on colonization, and geographic diversity and variation from the tropical north to the arid center of the continent, temperate southern reaches and Tasmania. Lourandis, who writes well, stressses the complexity and dynamism of Aboriginal Australia throughout the book, a direct challenger to earlier static views with more of a focus on the environment as a determinging factor in cultural change. With drawings and 50 maps. For travelers with a serious interest in Australian archaeology and prehistory (and a taste for theoretical debate). (AUS129, $57.00)   Dancing With Strangers, Europeans And Australians At First Contact  •  Inga Clendinnen HISTORY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 324 PAGES A compassionate and well-researched account of early British contact with the Australian natives, focusing on the rapport between British governor Arthur Philip and a native named Bennelong. (AUS208, $26.99)   Death of a River Guide, A Novel  •  Richard Flanagan LITERATURE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES The first novel of Tasman's man of letters, Flanagan, which has, as its narrator, a river guide in the last moments of his life at the bottom of the Franklin River. No simple tale of adventure gone wrong, Flanagan conjures the ancestors of his guide, evoking the complex, tangled history of Tasmania and its original colonial settlement by convicts. Like many Tasmanians, Flanagan's memorable guide is of English, Slovenian and Aboriginal descent. (AUS125, $13.00)   Dirt Music, A Novel  •  Tim Winton LITERATURE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES Among Australia's finest writers, Tim Winton fashions powerful and elegant tales set within the arid outback of Western Australia. An alcoholic mother and a down-on-his luck poacher are the protagonists of this recent novel, where landscape and nature play just as much a role as the characters themselves. (AUS151, $16.00)   Diving and Snorkeling Great Barrier Reef  •  Len Zell FIELD GUIDE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 159 PAGES • COMING IN A practical, illustrated guide to diving and snorkeling sites in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Outer Coral Sea and Torres Strait. With a short overview of the marine setting, ecology, coral reefs and inhabitants. The 17 maps, and many aerial and underwater color photographs are reason enough for an interested diver or snorkerler to buy this slim book. (AUS27, $24.99)   English Passengers  •  Matthew Kneale LITERATURE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 446 PAGES An accomplished novel, funny yet wrenchingly serious, of cultural collision and rebellion in Tasmania in the 19th century. Its English settlers -- opportunists in a land at the edge of the world -- coexist less and less easily with Tasmania's Aborigines. Winner of the UK's Whitbread Award. (AUS109, $15.95)   The Explorers  •  Tim F. Flannery ANTHOLOGY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 385 PAGES A diverse, thoroughly engaging survey of the literature of Australian exploration, selected and introduced by Tim Flannery. A mammalogist and popular writer, Flannery demonstrates his usual wit in this selection of 67 accounts by Captain James Cook, buccaneer William Dampier and even modern adventurers like Robyn Davidson (who crossed the continent on a camel). (AUS89, $14.00)   The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia  •  Graham Pizzey  •  Frank Knight  •  Peter Menkhorst FIELD GUIDE •  2007 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 576 PAGES Covering over 700 species species, the eight edition of this classic handbook and field guide includes multiple illustrations of most birds showing male, female, immature and other plumage variations. First published in 1980, this edition is fully updated and revised by editor Peter Menkhorst, Pizzey's guide contains essential information. (AUS65, $34.95)   Fodor's Australia  •  Fodor's GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 800 PAGES A popular, practical guide. (AUS138, $26.99)   Footprint East Coast Australia  •  Darroch Donald GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES A detailed, practical guide to Queensland and the Australia's east coast from Melbourne to the Great Barrier Reef and Cairns, jam-packed with maps, coverage of attractions, practical information on transportation, food, activities and lodgings, and a handful of well selected photographs. This is the Australia where most people travel, encompassing Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, and the Great Barrier Reef. (AUS174, $24.99)   Footprint Zealand  •  Darroch Donald GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 720 PAGES Featuring hundred of color photographs and a pop-out map, this informative guide balances an overview of nature, history and culture with practical travel information. (NZL110, $27.95)   A Fraction of the Whole  •  Steve Toltz LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 530 PAGES Toltz's debut novel, a rollicking tale of larger-than-life adventures of father and son, highlights the irreverant childhood journey of son Jasper under his father's zany parentage The pair's feverishly comical journey takes form through the picaresque narrative Jasper scribbles on an an Australian prison wall in his early 20s. This wildly imagined, outsized tale was shortlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize. (AUS211, $14.95)   Frommer's Australia  •  Marc Llewellyn  •  Lee Mylne GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 768 PAGES A detailed practical travel guide (with pull-out map), featuring excellent annotated listings of attractions, activities, restaurants, and accomodations. With maps, color photos and suggested excursions. (AUS178, $24.99)   Frommer's Melbourne Day by Day  •  Lee Mylne GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (AUS226, $12.99)   The Future Eaters, An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People  •  Tim F. Flannery NATURAL HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES An ecological history of the region, focusing on human impact on local environments and animal populations in the recent geologic past. Flannery, the prolific author of "Throwim' Way Leg," as well as many more books (often about nature and/or Australia), sets out a powerful tale, none too flattering about the intelligence or foresight of our own species. (AUS48, $16.00)   Gould's Book of Fish, A Novel in Twelve Fish  •  Richard Flanagan LITERATURE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 404 PAGES Flanagan keeps the reader guessing with a dizzying mix of history, fantasy and word play in this wildly inventive novel steeped in the 19th-century history of Tasmania and its brutal colonial prison. Billy Gould, his bawdy convict-narrator, contributes the paintings that introduce each section. winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, Gould's Book of Fish is a marvelously imagined epic of 19th-century Australia -- a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites -- whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish. (AUS126, $14.00)   The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage  •  Margarita Bowen  •  James Bowen HISTORY •  2011 •  PAPER  • 474 PAGES A serious-minded history of the Great Barrier Reef, its exploration, natural history and conservation. The focus is on the ecology, history and European impact from discovery through modern science. With chapters on Navigators and Naturalists in the Age of Sail, Origin and Structure of Coral Reefs: From Forster to Darwin, and The Conservation Controversy. Recent winner of the New South Wales premier's prize for Australian history. (AUS160, $55.00)   Insight City Guide Perth  •  Dorothy Stannard GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Combines insightful writing and lavish full-color photography in a portable format with an emphasis on practical information. (AUS209, $16.95)   Insight Guide Australia  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES Panoramic in scope, this illustrated overview brings Australia to life in hundreds of color photographs and vivid essays on history, culture and nature. (AUS67, $24.99)   Insight Guide Melbourne  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES This lavishly illustrated Insight guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essays on history, culture and attractions. (AUS197, $19.99)   Kakadu National Park Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A visitor's map of Australia's Kakadu National Park, at a scale of 1:400,000. One Side. 30x28 inches. (AUS97, $10.95)   Kimberley Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A large scale (1:1,250,000) map of the Kimberley region, including the northern coast of Western Australia. The reverse side features brief descriptions of major sites and national parks. Two Sides. 23x30 inches. (AUS16, $10.95)   Lonely Planet Australia  •  denis O'Byrne GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 1092 PAGES A practical guide to Australia by Melbourne-based Lonely Planet, featuring maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With a few color photographs, 158 useful sketch maps, and excellent travel information. (AUS92, $29.99)   Lonely Planet Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin  •  Susannah Farfor GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES This comprehensive practical guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style includes local and regional color maps, a section of photographs, and chapters on history, culture and attractions (AUS150, $22.99)   Lonely Planet Discover Australia  •  Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 408 PAGES Focusing on must-see and memorable places and experiences, this all color guide by the discerning editors at Lonely Planet, featuring hundreds of color photographs and maps, includes suggested tours and itineraries along with not-to-be-missed places to stay, eat, shop and see. (AUS238, $24.99)   Lonely Planet Melbourne  •  Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES A travel guide to Melbourne and surroundings in the Lonely Planet series with a good overview, excellent maps and plenty of practical information. (AUS73, $21.99)   Lonely Planet Melbourne Encounter  •  Donna Wheeler GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER With a section of not-to-missed highlights and a calendar of annual events, this lively pocket guide organized by neighborhood includes suggested side trips, along what to see and where to shop, eat, drink and play. With a double-sided pullout map. (AUS207, $11.99)   Lonely Planet Perth & Western Australia  •  Sally Webb  •  Ilsa Colson GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 264 PAGES A practical guidebook to Western Australia with plenty of information on where to go and what to do, as well as background on history, culture and nature. (AUS140, $21.99)   Lonely Planet Queensland & The Great Barrier Reef  •  Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 468 PAGES A practical, comprehensive guide to the rain forests, reefs, off-shore islands and other attractions of Queensland with a focus on adventure and outdoor activities. (AUS107, $23.99)   Lonely Planet Sydney  •  Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 252 PAGES A comprehensive, practical guide to the city and its history. With dozens of excellent maps, color photographs and short glossary. Sixth edition. (AUS68, $21.99)   Lonely Planet Tasmania  •  Lyn McGuar  •  John Chapman  •  Monica Chapman GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 335 PAGES A practical guide to Tasmania by Lonely Planet, featuring 51 maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With color photographs and excellent travel information. (AUS81, $24.99)   MacOnockie's Gentlemen, The Story of Norfolk Island & the Roots of Modern Prison Reform  •  Norval Morris HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES Norfolk Island, a small patch of land off the coast of Australia, uninhabited until discovered by Captain Cook, was once the site of a notorious prison. Using four fictionalized voices, law professor Norval Morris describes the techniques and experiments of superintendent Alexander Maconochie, who transformed it from a chaotic colony of murderers and thieves into an efficient and uncommonly humane place of penal reform. For the rare traveler to Norfolk Island (and for those who loved Hughes's "The Fatal Shore") this is a fascinating narrative history. (PAC119, $19.95)   Motoring Atlas of Australia  •  UBD 1999 •  MAP  • 189 PAGES A comprehensive, spiral-bound atlas with 80 pages of full color road maps and maps of 104 cities and towns. The atlas includes travel information, an introduction to each region and index. (AUS120, $21.95)   Mr. Darwin's Shooter  •  Roger McDonald LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 364 PAGES A New York Times Notable Book from one of Australia's most acclaimed authors, this novel presents the dilemma of Syms Covington, who assists aboard the HMS Beagle as a youth but later must grapple with the worldwide moral crises resulting from Darwin's claims. (AUS201, $14.00)   National Geographic Australia  •  Roff Smith GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES Roff Smith, a prolific writer on Australian topics, introduces his adoptive country in this attractive, profusely illustrated National Geographic guidebook. It features color photos, maps, overviews of culture, nature, and history, and practical travel information. (AUS132, $27.95)   New South Wales Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A detailed map of New South Wales for the traveler at a scale of 1:1,500,000, imported from Australia. One Side. 28x40 inches. (AUS59, $10.95)   Northern Territory Australia Map  •  Universal Press MAP A colorful, detailed map of the Northern Territory, imported from Australia. Scale 1:2,000,000. (AUS62, $8.95)   Northern Territory Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP An excellent, colorful map of the Northern Territories of Australia at a scale of 1:1,800,000. One Side. 40x28 inches. (AUS36, $10.95)   On Dialogue, Contemporary Australian Art  •  Anne Marie Freybourg  •  Les Murray  •  Juliana Engberg ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 216 PAGES A study of art in Australia over the last 40 years, focusing on artists in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. (AUS144, $39.95)   Oscar and Lucinda  •  Peter Carey LITERATURE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES The Booker Prize-winning novel that catapulted Peter Carey to fame is a twisted romance of the kind that could only take place in 19th-century Australia, culimating with a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback. (AUS204, $15.95)   Penguins  •  Lloyd Spencer David  •  Martin Renner NATURAL HISTORY •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 232 PAGES A concise, comprehensive overview of the penguins, their evolution, ecology and behavior. With line drawings, figures, charts and black-and-white photographs. A volume in a series of monographs on birds published by T & AD Poyser in Britain. Spencer, who has done field work on Erect-crested, Yellow-eyed and other New Zealand penguins is a professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin. (ANT207, $45.00)   Picnic at Hanging Rock  •  Peter Weir 1979 •  DVD Peter Weir's confounding thriller about a group of girls and a teacher at a turn-of-the-century boarding school in Victoria, Australia, who go missing after a Valentine's Day picnic. Beautifully photographed, the film depicts the arid landscape of the outback in all its majesty and eeriness. Part of the Criterion Collection. (AUS158, $29.95)   Queensland Central Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A detailed map of central Queensland, imported from Australia, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Two Sides. 22x37 inches. (AUS33, $10.95)   Queensland Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A colorful, detailed map of Queensland, imported from Australia. Scale 1:2,500,000. The Great Barrier Reef extends along most of Queensland's east coast. One Side. 40x28 inches. (AUS58, $10.95)   Queensland North Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A detailed map of North Queensland, imported from Australia, on a 1:1,750,000 scale. Two Sides. 34x28 inches. (AUS34, $10.95)   Queensland North Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A detailed map of North Queensland, imported from Australia, on a 1:1,750,000 scale. Two Sides. 34x28 inches. (AUS34, $10.95)   Queensland's Outback Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A detailed map of Outback Queensland, imported from Australia, at a scale 1:2,000,000. Two Sides. 30x23 inches. (AUS35, $10.95)   Rabbit-Proof Fence  •  Doris Pilkington BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  PAPER  • 142 PAGES Set in the 1930s, this affecting memoir follows three Aboriginal girls as they break out of a resettlement camp and make a 1,500-mile journey home. Originally titled Molly's Daughter and based on the experiences of the author's mother (who was one of the runaways), the book was also made into a popular film. (AUS180, $12.00)   Rabbit-Proof Fence  •  Phillip Noyce BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2005 •  DVD  • 142 PAGES The film adaptation of Doris Pilkington's heart-wrenching memoir about her mother and two mixed-race girlhood friends. The girls were forcibly taken from their homes and placed in an Aboriginal resettlement camp in 1930s Australia, from which they were able to escape. Most of the film follows their 1,500-mile odyssey home. The families still live in Jigalong, the outback community that is their home. (AUS181, $14.99)   Reef Fish Identification, Tropical Pacific  •  Paul Humann  •  Ned Deloach  •  Gerald Allen  •  Roger Steene FIELD GUIDE •  2003 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 450 PAGES The much-anticipated, comprehensive guide to Indo-Pacific reef fishes, featuring 2,500 color photographs of 2,000 species. The team at Paul Humann and company brought in Gerald Allan and Roger Steene, both tops in their field. (DIV49, $48.00)   A Reef in Time  •  J. E. N. Veron NATURAL HISTORY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Subtitled "The Great Barrier Reef From Beginning to End," this geological history of the world's most famous coral reef is also a plea for its protection against the dangers of global climate change. Veron is former Chief Scientist with the Australian Institute of Marine Science and recipient of the 2004 Darwin Medal of the International Society for Reef Studies. (AUS190, $20.00)   Rifling Paradise  •  Jem Poster LITERATURE •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 352 PAGES A British landowner runs from his indiscretions to the wilds of Australia, where his life begins to twist in dramatic and terrifying ways in this tale of emotional and psychological reckoning in both Victorian society and in nature. (AUS217, $25.95)   Rough Guide Australia  •  Margo Daly GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 1232 PAGES This practical guide in the excellent British series includes a good historical and cultural overview. (AUS183, $26.99)   Rough Guide East Coast Australia  •  Emma Gregg GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 560 PAGES A comprehensive guide to East Coast Australia in the hip, literate and infomative Rough Guide style. It's divided cleanly between practical information and illuminating background on culture and history. (AUS203, $22.99)   The Singing Line, Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Victorian Ancestors  •  Alice Thomson TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2000 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES The life and times of Thomson's great-great-grandparents, Charles and Alice (of Alice Springs) Todd, who left Victorian England in 1855 for the great unknown of South Australia. The title, The Singing Line, refers to the telegraph system from Adelaide to Darwin. (AUS88, $19.00)   The Sisters Antipodes  •  Jane Alison BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2010 •  PAPER  • 276 PAGES Two glamorous young couples, both posted to Canberra in the 1960s, each with a daughter, fall in love, divorce and exchange partners in Alison's powerful memoir played out over three continents. (AUS249, $14.95)   The Slap  •  Christos Tsiolkas LITERATURE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 482 PAGES A minor act triggers a series of repercussions in Tsiolkas' powerful rumination on middle-class family life in Austrailia. Weaving together multiple perspectives, the Greek-Austrailian author takes readers through the political, social, and ethnic issues facing contemporary Australia while asking readers to reexamine their own values. A challenging read, but worth it. (AUS242, $15.00)   The Sound of One Hand Clapping  •  Richard Flanagan LITERATURE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 425 PAGES This lyrical, award-winning novel, by a native of Tasmania, tells the story of a pregnant woman who revisits her painful past when she returns to her childhood home of Tasmania. As told by Tasmania's famous author Flanagan through a number of flashbacks, it is a powerful story of blue-collar Slovenian immigrants in the mid 20th century and a woman confronting her abusive father. (AUS84, $12.00)   Southern Night Sky  •  Pocket Naturalist FIELD GUIDE •  2001 •  PLASTIC CARD A glow in the dark laminated card showing the most conspicuous stars, constellations and celestial objects of the Southern Hemisphere. (SCI30, $5.95)   Stinging Trees and Wait-A-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist  •  William Laurance TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2000 •  HARD COVER  • 184 PAGES A scientist's memoir from the 1980s at Millaa Millaa in the tropics of Queensland, detailing the rigors of field research and the joys of discovery. But this is more than a discussion of scientific procedure and natural history, it is also a portrait of his colleagues, the story of conflicts with locals over conservation efforts, and most of all, an outsider's account of life in northeastern Australia, in the small towns and forests just outside of Cairns. The end of the book contains chapters on his travels in Papua New Guinea. With black-and-white photos and series of color plates. (AUS90, $25.00)   Sydney Map  •  Borch Maps 2006 •  MAP A laminated map of the center of Sydney at a scale of 1:12,000. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (AUS104, $8.95)   Sydney Then and Now  •  Caroline Mackaness CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 144 PAGES This illustrated chronicle juxtoposes archival photographs with modern ones, demonstrating the city's change over time. With historical descriptions. (AUS198, $18.95)   Tasmania Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A colorful, detailed map of Tasmania at a scale of 1:650,000. Published in Australia. Includes an inset of Hobart. Two Sides. 30x20 inches. (AUS40, $10.95)   The Thorn Birds  •  Colleen McCullough LITERATURE •  1978 •  PAPER  • 692 PAGES A best-selling classic about life in the Australian Outback. This absorbing saga spans three generations, detailing all of the tragedies and dramas that the resilient members of the Cleary family face. Turned into an acclaimed television miniseries. (AUS66, $7.99)   One For the Road, An Outback Adventure  •  Tony Horwitz TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 211 PAGES Good adrenaline-fueled fun by the author of Confederates in the Attic and Baghdad Without a Map. This time Horwitz is among the aborigines, outcasts and other exiled desert rats in the outback of Australia. (AUS79, $14.00)   A Town Like Alice  •  Neville Shute LITERATURE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES A powerful novel of triumph and war-time courage. (AUS72, $15.00)   Tracks, A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback  •  Robyn Davidson EXPLORATION •  1995 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Davidson arrives in the outback with a dog, a little cash, and she manages to find some camels (feral in Australian desert since the 19th century) to carry her on her journey. This absorbing book is her account of her trek across the desert -- a tale of true adventure shot through with a feel for the landscape and empathy for the Aboriginal people she meets along the way. (AUS15, $15.95)   A Traveller's History of Australia  •  John H. Chambers HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 347368 PAGES A brief history of Australia from the arrival of the Aborigines to the first European settlement and the development of the modern nation state -- quite an accomplishment for such a short book. It's very well written and includes a glossary, timeline and gazetteer. (AUS64, $14.95)   Unreliable Memoirs  •  Clive James LITERATURE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 122 PAGES A new edition of James's brilliant, outrageously funny account of growing up out of place in rural Australia, originally published in 1981. (AUS244, $13.95)   Voss  •  Patrick White LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES White's 1957 epic, based upon the extravagant life and exploits of the 19th-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt, who disappeared on an expedition into the Australian outback. (AUS210, $17.00)   Walkabout  •  Nicolas Roeg CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1971 •  DVD In this haunting classic film by Nicholas Roeg an Aborigine boy teaches a lost young girl and her brother how to survive in the Australian outback. (AUS247, $39.95)   Wallpaper City Guide Sydney  •  Wallpaper Magazine GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations. (AUS173, $9.95)   Western Australia Map  •  HEMA Maps MAP A detailed, homegrown map of Western Australia, with roads and topography, at a scale of 1:2,500,000. Two Sides. 20x30 inches. (AUS127, $10.95)   Wise Women of the Dreamtime, Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers  •  K. Langloh Parker  •  Joanna Lambert LITERATURE •  1993 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES A collection of 14 traditional Aboriginal stories first collected and translated by Katie Langloh Parker (1856-1940) who befriended Aborigines while living on an outback ranch. Joanna Lambert edits this edition and provides commentary. (AUS156, $14.95)
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