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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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BEST OF AUSTRALIA: GREAT BARRIER REEF TO AYERS ROCK

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Australia, A New History of the Great Southern Land

Australia, A New History of the Great Southern Land


by 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 the period of colonization. (AUS165, $37.50)

Australia, An Ecotraveler's Guide

Australia, An Ecotraveler's Guide


by 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. (AUS128, $23.95)

A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Improbable Birth of Australia

A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Improbable Birth of Australia


by Thomas Keneally

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

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, $16.00)

Eyewitness Guide Sydney

Eyewitness Guide Sydney


by Eyewitness Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 264 PAGES

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)

Mr. Darwin's Shooter


by 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)

One For the Road, An Outback Adventure

One For the Road, An Outback Adventure


by Tony Horwitz

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 211 PAGES

A classic travel adventure by favorite author Tony Horwitz. This time he's set loose among the Aborigines, exiled desert rats and other odd characters in the outback. (AUS79, $14.00)

The Singing Line, Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Victorian Ancestors


by Alice Thomson

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

The story of Charles and Alice Todd, who left Victorian England for South Australia as told by their great-great-granddaughter. (AUS88, $19.00)

Southern Night Sky

Southern Night Sky


by 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)

True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang


by Peter Carey

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 386 PAGES

Carey's powerful, daring novel, steeped in the colonial history of late 19th-century Australia, won him a second Booker (the first was for Oscar & Lucinda). Outlaw, folk hero, thief and patriot, the Irish immigrant Ned Kelly and his clan figure large in the Australian mindset. (AUS119, $15.95)

The Turning, New Stories

The Turning, New Stories


by Tim Winton

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 321 PAGES

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, $20.99)

Voss

Voss


by 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)

 

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